Opinion

Bí a bá ńjà, bí í kákú là ńwí? ...Even though we are quarrelling, should we wish each other dead? Some ten years ago I had written on a very similar topic, and repeated same seven years ago and my...

Few weeks ago, the Vice President of Nigeria, Prof Yemi Osinbajo declared that henceforth, the Federal Government of Nigeria will classify hate speech as specie of Terrorism and offenders will be charged under the Terrorism Prevention Act, as amended The...

The separation of Pakistan from India on August 14, 1947 was quite bloody. Its  focus was on religion and a holy, separate state. Unlike India, it had no strong structures, in fact, it  had no valid constitution, no independent judiciary and...

Last week, the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu quashed the Order of Mandamus, that compelled the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and Inspector General of Police (IGP), to recognize Chief Martin Agbaso as the acting National Chairman of...

The Lagos Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), since inception, has continued to enjoy city-wide patronage as the scheme expands in infrastructure, passenger volume, and area network coverage.Like the teeming mainland populace, the islanders are not left out in the scramble...

I think I can welcome myself back to this column by borrowing from Buhari’s broadcast of Monday, August 21 2017, where he said “it is nice to be back home”. This column has been absent the past three weeks,...

The 2017 policy meeting of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)  has come and gone with complaints and distasteful reactions. Some reacted based on ignorance while some were deliberately mischievous. In the first category are persons that had the wrong...

Scepticism in Africa matters now more than ever. This will be the underlying thesis of my presentation at the next Eurosceptics Congress in Wroclaw, Poland in September 2017. Although the title of my presentation is quite specific – "Robber Goat", "Bird...

When did Nigeria got reduced to this comedy theatre where our pride and integrity as civilized people could be bastardized and traded for a few self seeking individuals' ego to be massaged? That a country where the President had been...

Last week, the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, released a report with a damning verdict: that irrespective of the good work being done by this administration to kill corruption, corruption has refused to die. The report said that monies...