Opinion

This is not about the Nigerian senator Dino Melaye, this is about our nation Nigeria, about the working class, to whom power truly belongs. There is a provision in the Constitution and in the INEC Electoral Act that permits and...

One of the worst disaster that can befall any country is having a youthful population turning themselves to cyber militants bombing each other over actions of leaders they are suppose to have retired. The muscle heads from the north...

The Iraqi Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, cladded in  black military uniform, stormed Mosul  on Monday to declare victory in the city  over the unstable minds of the Islamic State (ISIL)  He told the world, he had come to  Mosul “to announce...

"In every difficulty lies opportunity" - Albert Einstern. Our democracy has thrown up the emergence of quasi ethnic sentiments, unbridled cultivation of poor national consciousness,weak institutions, poor perception of government, deteriorating national values and insecurity. In context, the present government's...

On Wednesday, July 12, the Supreme Court saved our democracy and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). It did with its ruling in the matter between Ali Modu Sheriff and Ahmed Makarfi, to determine who among the two is the...

Nigeria has had a rather chequered history with democracy. Since 1999, Nigeria has had an uninterrupted democratic experiment which has been largely successful. INEC has continuously improved its handling of elections where the votes of the people are increasingly...

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...

Nigerians were treated to a huge shock recently when it was revealed that if no urgent steps were taken, the mainstay of the Nigerian economy, the crude oil reserve would be totally depleted in the next 37 years. This...

When Muhammadu Buhari clinched the presidency, many Nigerians believed it was a year of a big, bloodless political revolution. But now we know this wasn't so much a revolution as a restructuring of the political order, a transfer of...

The issue of ‘reflecting the Federal Character’ is a recurring decimal in our political discourses. Many people have their own notion of what the concept means or ought to mean. Some blame the frequent cries of ‘marginalization’ by different...