Opinion

For close to thirty years the Ajaokuta-Itakpe rail line project has been put on hold based on the visionless leadership we have witnessed in the past. The project was conceptualised to facilitate the evacuation of raw materials and end-products...

Over the years, the recurrent themes at gatherings of the Ijaw (Ezon) people include  marginalization despite producing most of the oil that sustains the country's economy. They are about environmental  pollution, deprivation rather than derivation and resource control. While such themes are...

Religion was not quite a major divisive issue in the community in which we lived in the Old Cross River State in my days as a student there. On Sundays, students felt free to attend church service either within...

There is no gainsaying the fact that there is despair across the length  and breadth of Nigeria.  There is no single  state where the people are feeling the positivr impact of the APC Federal Government. Everywhere you go, the country...

I have two predictions to make: before you're through with this piece, the federal and state governments of Nigeria may issue a decree against hate speech. The authorities, its agents, and some Nigerians would call for my head for...

“My Stomach is with me. When I am full I know” - 9ce! There is a big error of fact in what President Muhammadu Buhari was quoted to have said after meeting with some of his Ministers who briefed him...

The kind of debates we had then or the quotations you have to search for in the library just to speak at SRC meeting or congress when there was no google o! O su mi o. Wale Fatade The current...

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State is giving out the sum of $40,000.00 (N14 million based on the exchange rate of N350 to $1) to the Nigerian senior national football team, the Super Eagles, for defeating their Cameroonian...

Nigeria is an interesting country, most of the time her thinking and perspectives are warped and lopsided. In the 21st century of innovations and technology, the country’s minister of technology was promising Nigerians that in the nearest future Nigeria...

His Eminence, Saad Abubaker lll, the Sultan of Sokoto's admonition that God does not make mistakes, must have struck strong chords in the hearts of members of both the Islamic and Christian Faiths in Nigeria. The assumption above is underscored...