Opinion

There is a new test of will between the Senate and the Acting President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. The trigger was a recent letter by the Acting President seeking Senate confirmation of Gbajabiamila as DG, Lottery Commission. Shortly after the...

The all-powerful United States of America (USA) is a bundle of contradictions. It goofs so childishly and owes no one any apology . It is sensitive and alive in protecting the dignity of nationals of other countries in the...

For weeks, Lagos State has been in one of the worst cult crisis ever imagined for a metropolitan city. On a daily basis, blood of the innocent and supposedly guilty flow on the streets on the account of the...

There couldn't have been anything more absurd, a gathering of ministers who in their time failed to deliver on key programmes of their administration and were summarily sacked from office. But in Nigeria, anything is possible as people no...

Tens of thousands have been killed over 40 years of bloodletting between Turkish forces and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), and tragically there seems to be no end in sight. In May 2016, President Erdogan stated that military operations...

The most discussed subject in Nigeria today is what is called “restructuring” and indeed so popular is this subject that it has attracted the attention of roadside commentators, the bright, the not-so-bright, the mischievous and the outrightly unintelligent all...

Over the past few weeks, a reading and video of a poem I AM A NIGERIAN   has been circulating on social media without attribution. It has been   sent to me several times, both in video and in text form...

In April 2012 when I was Acting General Secretary of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) then Congress President, Abdulwaheed Omar walked into my office to inform that he had just received a call from the Executive Governor of Taraba...

Few days after ailing President Muhammadu Buhari was airlifted to an unspecified medical facility in Great Britain, his Vice who immediately swung into action in line with constitutional provisions as acting President made two shocking visits. Professor Yemi Osinbanjo who...

We must have heard how the former media aide to erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, the self-called pastor and founder of the Mind of Chrsit Christian Centre, embarked on an ill-advised and futile attempt at lecturing the Igbo...