Opinion

His Excellency, Senator Abiola Adeyemi Ajimobi, the Governor,  and by the Grace of The Almighty, the "Constituted Authority"  of Oyo State, changed the  197-year history of the monarchy in Ibadan by minting 21 additional  Kings where only one had existed. The projection of this...

After the genocide experience in 1994, Rwanda continues. In remembering its dead population during the ugly tragedy, a museum was created in their honor with a bold inscription written on it ‘’Never Again’’. This is the best that has...

State your choice between local infrastructure and politicians? The only people benefiting from Federal Character are the well-placed and their cronies. It was a good intention to empower ethnic groups in all regions of the Country. Alas, millionaires and...

These are heady days for Yoruba unity. The Yoruba Summit held last week in Ibadan represents a milestone in the way forward to extricate ourselves from the political sinking ship of Nigeria. Though the communique issued at the end of...

I want to tell you why you should oppose the recent move by the Ukpabios to bring their witch-hunting mission to Lagos, Nigeria. Before doing that, please take a look at a recent report in one of the Nigerian...

The Nigerian Army must have discovered by now that its recently launched Operation Python Dance II, in the south-east, would be to a different tune from the Operation Dance (first edition), which earned it accolades for taming the criminality...

By the time you read this, Senate president, Bukola Saraki would have returned from Saudi Arabia where he claimed to have gone to pray for President Muhammadu Buhari! Thank God! It is daybreak and Dr. Saraki has suddenly realized...

The minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, recently in Kano made a startling and shocking disclosure regarding government’s willingness and readiness to give unwarranted N39 billion loan to Distribution Companies (DISCOs) to meet electricity meter supply. The...

"If justice be taken away, what are governments but great bands of robbers?"-Augustine of Hippo (354-430 CE). The logical scope of this Augustinian syllogism goes to the very essence of the human system of government. It goes also to the...

Mama Taraba is Senator Aisha Alhassan, the current Minister of Women Affairs in the Muhammadu Buhari cabinet, and arguably the most influential female politician in Taraba state today. She did something shocking and unusual in Nigerian politics during the...