Opinion

On October 2, 2017, Awka, the Anambra State capital stood still for the incumbent Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), when he officially flagged off his re-election campaign for the November 18 gubernatorial poll in grand...

As we gradually move towards 2019 and 2023, I am beginning to get worried whether Igbo is putting their acts together to take a shot at the Presidency in 2023 when the North would have completed their 8 years?...

Recently some traders in a certain part of Nigeria marched through the streets, seeking the attention of the governor of their state. When they eventually got to the seat of government of that state, they sought to register their...

My first contact with the homogenous culture of Ekiti people was in the barracks as a Policeman’s son (Omo Olopa). Due to my dad’s incessant transfer, I grew up in different barracks across Nigeria, but did not fail to observe the...

As you read this piece, you may quickly declare that this writer is saying this  because he is working with the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.  Far from it. This is a considered opinion. As I listened  to Governor...

These times are indeed fragile because of a combination of factors which have coalesced to pose formidable threats to the continuous existence of Nigeria as a united political entity. There are varying degrees of socio-political agitations from sections of the...

Last week delivered drama aplenty in the country. There were very interesting and, occasionally, distressing news items. We had the appointment of a young and dishy-looking woman, Mrs Zainab Ahmad as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria...

So for the purpose of this admonishment, I did like to refer to them as the Nigerian musketeers. And if you have watched The Man in the Iron Mask, a 1998 American action drama film directed, produced, and written...

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...