Opinion

We live in a world – the digital age- where we virtually do everything online from corresponding to shopping, banking and socializing. We send and receive emails; shop for virtually everything online; socialize through Facebook, Twitter and Instagram etc; watch...

Why are western nations taking responsibility for the radicalisation of Muslims when the problem is not confined to these countries? Why are these countries buying into this lame narrative that ascribes blame for Islamic extremism to western foreign policy? Obvious such...

It must have been in my 200 level year that the question was asked to which our lecturer, Dr Bidemi Okanlawon, replied: "If you find it attested in the language, why not?" The question: "Is it correct to say...

At first, clawing Nigerian economy out from recession ditch was thought to be not only a Herculean task, but one that couldn't be achieved so fast. But at the rate at which the Naira/dollar exchange rate is converging, putting Nigerian...

Saif al-Islam Ghaddafi, P.hd, London School of Economics, and the best known son of Muammar Ghaddafi was  set free this week. He had been detained  for six years since November 19, 2011 when following the Libyan ‘Civil War’ he...

I'd gotten an unsolicited news flash from MTN a few weeks ago on the Honorable Minister for Education, Prof Adamu Adamu saying that teachers were to become the highest paid workers in Nigeria. The implication would be an improvement...

Sadly, some Nigerians have been beating the drums of war. A group known as the Coalition of Northern Youths (CNY) recently issued a quit notice to the Ibos resident in the North, asking them to vacate Northern Nigeria by...

The verdict is in: Bukola Abiku Mesujamba Saraki has no case to answer after bribing CCT Chairman Danladi Umar a whopping $2 million. No surprise at all. Mesujamba Saraki is synonymous with corruption. We know it will all come...

Not too long ago, the peace and security of Nigeria ruptured, while the country suddenly found itself by a cliffhanger. The possible collapse of the country looked visible, as it struggled for succour under the silhouette of Boko Haram...

African waters are powerful magnets for illegal and unregulated foreign fishing operations It was midnight on 14 December 2016, when five fishermen in Tombo village near Freetown in Sierra Leone  revved up a small outboard engine  and powered their  boat...