Opinion

No compelling attempt has been made by the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to deal with the budget padding controversy.  Last year, the issue was a dark spot in the administration’s anti-corruption record.  Chairman of the Appropriation committee in the House of Representatives,...

If many Nigerians were in doubt over the state of President Mohammadu Buhari health, the voice broadcast across media platforms on the occasion of Eid celebration has only made a resounding statement of his fragile state of health after...

I am a politician. We all are at one point or the other of our social, cultural and political endeavours.  Presently however, I don’t belong to any political party in Nigeria. If you ever want to amount to anything...

Teachers are critical nation builders. With a standard and up-to-date teacher, qualitative impartation of knowledge will never be in doubt with glowing outcomes. It is on this strength that a nation cannot grow beyond the quality of her teachers...

I truly cannot get a handle to it but, it is heart-warming that you have started moderating your views on the agitation for Biafra. You no longer talk tough because it appears Ndigbo elders and leaders of thought have...

In 2016, crude oil price crashed to $28 per barrel in the international market.  In spite of that, Nigeria’s local crude oil price multiplied astronomically from N86 to about N500 per litre - an increase of about 486.1 percent....

Last week, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo met with governors at the Presidential Banquet in Abuja. Obviously, the recent three-month ultimatum by northern youths to Igbo to vacate the north and IPOB's Kanu renewed agitation for Biafra were on his mind....

So everybody wants to go their own separate way? Some Igbos want to re-create the nation of Biafra while others want a Niger-Delta country; Northern youths are calling for the expulsion of all Igbos (- and Southerners) from the...

The holding of the Eyo Festival as part of the activities marking fifty years of Lagos State, transported me back to my childhood. Although the festival can be rough, but we in the Obalende Area had our own Eyo...

There is no question that in Nigeria, the poor, the less privileged and the largely dispossessed majority who find themselves in that demeaning class of human categorization have been condemned to a life of perpetual oppression. Forget what is...