Opinion

The first thought that flashed into my mind when I saw this headline on my newsfeed was: “Oh my God! Nigeria!” Then I started to have spasms of panic attacks. OK, it wasn’t that dramatic – but I was terrified. I...

Do you believe Bukola Saraki, Oba idu, ipa to npaja, would be recalled from Kwara? Many of us should be touched by a plea of a young man that would rather look forward to his death in Asia than die in...

The renewed secessionist agitation championed by Nnamdi Kanu has triggered a chain motion of cleavage-based identification. Whether it's the usual bandwagon attitude of Nigerians to emulate the good, bad and ugly trend or the real deal of our expanding...

It was an opportunity to counter Islamic fanaticism but the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar III, blew it away. He ignored the elephant in the room – Quranic indoctrination of children. Instead, the head of muslims in Nigeria lashed out...

It is hard to imagine that along with the catastrophe that has been inflicted on Syria for the past six years, another calamity is unfolding in Yemen of damning proportions while the whole world looks on with indifference. What...

This piece shares title with a 1960 Argentine drama film directed by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, which depicts the political corruption in Argentina in the 1930s, a period referred to as the “Infamous Decade”.  The decade, which began in 1930 with...

Nigeria is so 'serious' a nation that satire is as bad a 'crime' as treason. Counting the torrents of condemnation against Mrs. Aisha Buhari's harmless satirical comment to the satirical post of Senator Shehu Sani, one could see why...

Cumulatively, Nigeria has become increasingly dangerous for human habitation due to the combination of a number of factors. Politically, Nigeria is badly administered both centrally and at segmented dimension and the direct consequence of this is that the total absence...

These are curious times certainly. These are times wherein regular and irregular occurrences confound, bewilder and astound us to the extent that as they happen as quickly as they do, one is left with the feeling of loss. The...

The awards of excellence gathered by the Lagos state governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode reminds me of the two-term governor of Rivers state, Dr. Peter Odili. Those were the days when Nigeria, though with minor differences, were united in true...