Opinion

Again another psychotic madman strikes killing over 50 people and injuring more than 500 in the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. Never a day goes by in America that there isn't a homicide caused as...

Minorities, or those who feel they have become minorities, are  erupting across the world; English-speaking Camerounians in Africa, the Rohingya in Asia, the Kurds in the Arab world and the Catalans in Europe. Today in Catalonia, one of the wealthiest of...

I am quite aware that there is injustice, marginalization in Nigeria. It can be argued that it is more noticeable in the south eastern part. But the biggest injustice, marginalization for me remains, that of the economic giants, political...

My attention has been drawn to a publication by Sen Godswill Akpabio, Minority Leader of the Nigerian Senate, in which he strenuously but fruitlessly tries to defend the abysmally poor performance of Udom Emmanuel, the Akwa Ibom State governor....

The usually boisterous and convivial atmosphere of the green chamber of the National Assembly has never witnessed the kind of laughter and banters by senators like the way it happened when the senator representing Kaduna central applied his power...

A few days ago I was rummaging through some national dailies. One of them, The Guardian of Nigeria, carried a very curious story on its front page. The news item was that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the NNPC,...

My last week’s column, ‘IPOB is an insurgency, not a terrorist organization’, elicited a remarkable number of comments – kudos and criticisms as one would expect when one throws one’s hat onto the public space. Space will not permit me...

 "is no longer a mere geographical space"— John O'Sullivan, 1845 'n my early youth,' as a kid, two books I won in a competition brought some locations in America so close that I could physically touch those places. The names Colorado and Colombia rang in my ears...

Today in Germany, the Germans are celebrating similar to what Nigerians 'celebrated' two days ago, on October 1. Thus, permit me to open this article by congratulating Europe's best economy for taking the right steps in 1989, step that...

Nigeria was fifty seven  on Sunday October 1 and all my thoughts were about her future; the future of her children to whom tomorrow should belong. I was to be jolted by news that Akwa Ibom, one of the 36 states, is...