Opinion

OPINION: LAI MOHAMMED: AN UNMANAGEABLE MISTAKE

When President Muhammadu Buhari announced the people he has selected to occupy some of the most strategic positions in his regime, there was understandable uproar across the country. Nigerians looked at the profile of these fellows and wondered what...

OPINION: AFRICA’S QUEST FOR A CASHLESS ECONOMY GAINS MOMENTUM

When she needed to transfer money to a friend in a faraway village last March, Mouna Ahmed, a gender equality activist in Liberia, did not have to worry about long bank queues and complex paperwork. Instead she took her...

OPINION: LETTER TO EDO POLICE

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Last week, together with the national leader of police reforms in Nigeria, we went on a human rights fact-finding mission. Apart from this big Oga, there was another human rights chap from another organization I will not name.  The...

OPINION: AFRICA: THE END OF AN ERA

In Africa, it is no longer news to hear a president is sick or recovering from an ailment, as I pen down this piece, the president of Nigeria is in London receiving treatment for undisclosed ailment while his Zimbabwean...

OPINION: THE SARAKI LED SENATE: A MIDTERM ASSESSMENT

The Nigerian legislative arm of government, comprising the Senate and the House of Representatives, is rarely in the good books of the public. No congregation of legislators in Nigeria has arguably suffered public condemnation like the 8th Senate. Some...

OPINION: AFRICA FEELING THE HEAT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

Researchers are still trying to learn why the population of African penguins has dropped precipitously over the last 15 years—some estimates say by 90%—but most agree that climate change is a major factor in the decline of this iconic...

OPINION: DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA: ISSUES  AND THE WAY FORWARD

Democratic governance in Nigeria does not promise to make us perfect, but at least, the process of striving will make us a better people. Nigeria's democratic process can be described as nascent when compared to other countries' based on our...

OPINION: BIAFRA: TO LEAVE OR NOT TO LEAVE

It is no longer if Biafrans will leave but when and if they will survive without all of the old Eastern Region. There are there three types of agitations ringing from the former Eastern part of Nigerians:  the 1)...

OPINION: IN THE TRENCHES OF JOURNALISM AND ACTIVISM WITH BABAFEMI OJUDU

There is an African saying that human beings come individually to the world and merely meet on earth. However, there are people you meet and take the same path over a long distance. This is the case with Babafemi  Ojudu...

OPINION: OBASANJO’S BIAFRA SOLUTION

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has reportedly called for dialogue with those agitating for Biafra.  Speaking at the event,   ‘Biafra, 50 Years After’ at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre recently, Obasanjo was quoted by the Vanguard of May 25, 2017 as...