Opinion

I was really excited on Saturday when I received news of the eventual visit of President Muhammadu Buhari's media team to him in London. I had always felt that the exclusion of the media team from the London medical...

It seems the resolution of the recent issues within the Peoples Democratic Party by the Supreme Court and their successful Congress last week, in the midst of the chaos in the ruling All Progressive Congress, has set off alarm...

A political system that makes it difficult for leaders to lead effectively and for followers to follow voluntarily is a recipe for either progressive anarchy or national catastrophe. Therefore, as a way to contain adverse effects on our efforts...

The month of August is special to former military president, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB).  It was on the seventeenth of the month in 1941 that he was born in the dusty town of Minna.  He assumed presidential power on August...

I am persuaded to state without equivocation that we have become too distracted by our partisanship, sometimes masked as constitutionality, to notice that President Muhammadu Buhari has upended not only our social cohesion and geography but has frittered away...

Just like the presidents of every country of the world are very important to their citizens, the case is the same in Nigeria. Nigerian presidents are of great significance to their people. And so President Muhammadu Buhari has been...

If the International circuit has sufficient and informed access to events in Nigeria, particularly as it pertains to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), the word "Timifranking" would have made it into the lexicon of English language. Timifranking is...

Rural population is a critical component   of a nation's population. This is because in most countries of the world, especially the developing world, the greater percentage of the nation's population live in the rural areas. In Nigeria it is...

Since I read the exposé by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on the looted public funds that have so far been traced to the former minister of petroleum resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, I have been beside myself.  The Commission has...

"The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like...