Opinion

The well-publicised spat between the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu and the Group Managing Director of the state oil company, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Dr Maikanti Baru, is perhaps the greatest challenge so far to...

Let me borrow from late Dr, Bala Mohammed who said: "if you are emotionally attached to your tribe or political leaning to the point that truth and justice become secondary considerations, your education is useless. Your exposure is useless....

Ethics scholars on leadership have since concluded that the most important attribute of leadership is not power, after all, but character. According to this school of thought, every leader is only as safe and secure as his character. Indeed,...

While the controversy surrounding the leak of Ibe Kachikwu's letter is still raging on, the Presidency is under fire again following the comments of World Bank's president, Jim Yong Kim, in an interview where he claimed that President Muhammadu...

On November 18 this year, the electorate of Anambra State will go to the polls to elect a Governor that would oversee their affairs for a term of four years. It is not sufficient for the people to envisage better days...

In a conventional conversation, it is a general belief that the habit of sitting on the fence may not be the best decision. But in an applied sense, it avails one the vintage opportunity to view the two sides...

The socio-economic and political realities in Nigeria today is telling on everyone. While some are bold enough to admit it or express their disappointments with the situation, others are still pretending that all is well or that things will...

As parts of the universe this  Monday, October 9, marked the fiftieth year Ernesto Che Guevara was summarily executed in a classroom in  La Higuera, Bolivia, my mind was on three  romantic figures who gave their lives for the love of humanity;...

This year when the inaugural global forum for asset recovery will take place in Washington DC, in December the attention of the world will focus on four countries - Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Ukraine and Tunisia. I am not really...

Throughout history, inferno are usually caused by mere sparks from passing trains or a strike of match. This may not be an exception to what is described as the most deadly forest fire in the history of the United...