Opinion

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...

Immunity clause, as presently enshrined in the Nigerian constitution with its attendance problem of deferring punishment of an offender to an arbitrary future day rather than immediate punishment at the point of abusing an office, is a tortured issue...

President Muhammadu Buhari's 103 days absence from Nigeria based on medical reasons, left Nigeria drifting further apart away from what a nation should look like. There were palpable tensions everywhere, sharp divisions among the people, rise in police brutality...

With President Trump "locked and loaded" and the North Korean leader having a re-think about attacking Guam, the rest of the world can breathe a sigh of relief – at least for now. Never a week goes by that North...

In the early hours of Saturday, August 19th, 2017, Ahmed Aliyu Tanko started hoisting new flags in the quadrangle of the Presidential Villa. The heavy down pours had improved the lustre of the greenery of the Villa, but the...

From Nigeria House in the United Kingdom to ‘Home office’ in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) returned after 104 days in the Diaspora. Even those afflicted with socio-economic quagmire were mobilised to the streets to welcome the Daura born...

Until President Donald Trump sees Americans as key to achieving his vision for America, his precocious beginning may soon turn out a disaster, writes James Ojo When On Friday, January 20th, 2017, President Donald Trump stood tall on the West...