Opinion

All religion, is belief. Depending on the emphasis, any religion or religious movement can be one of ‘peace’   ‘tolerance’ or ‘extremism’. The most difficult ban is that  on religious belief because it is a futility; such a ban is...

Social psychologists have established that massive youth unemployment and the failure of leadership at any level to secure a prosperous future for its upcoming generation of youths is largely the main recipe for insecurity anywhere in the world. When...

With my recent sporadic media intervention on the warped form and character of federalism in Nigeria, I assumed I must have contributed to the ongoing polemic via-a-vis the imperatives of either political restructuring or secession as canvassed by the...

On Tuesday, July 18, 2017, it was publicly announced, and published, that the Federal Government of Nigeria, through the Ministry of Solid Minerals, has awarded exclusive mining rights to the Ondo State government, to begin exploitation and sale of...

Recently there have been debates as to whether Nigeria should be restructured or not. Some say Nigerian unity is not negotiable while others like Nobel Laurete Prof Wole Soyinka and Governor  Seriake Dickson in a recent event in Bayelsa...

These are trying times for many businesses and their owners in Nigeria.  Businesses are crumbling due to economic upheavals. Reputations of businessmen and women, nay government contractors, especially those of them who are not politically correct, are being shredded on...

It has become a pastime for me to write about political parties and movements since I submitted my first degree dissertation, Political Parties and Democratization: The Effects of Party Politics on Nigeria’s Democratic Experience (2003-2011) at the Department of...

A nation where mob action seems to be the only alternative to justice, the innocent will continue to cry for same justice. Mob action is increasingly becoming a reoccurring decimal in Nigeria. From the rampaging Fulani herdsmen and retaliatory attacks...

In an attempt  to raise much needed funds, the Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has come up with the most ludicrous suggestions of all time : she plans to tax even beggars on their 'earnings'. She made this perfectly clear...

WHY NIGERIA SHOULD OPPOSE MOROCCO FROM JOINING THE ECOWAS The treaty establishing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was signed in Lagos on 28 May 1975, after several years of painstaking efforts by General Yakubu Gowon, the then...