Opinion

In its first thirty nine years as an independent country, military dictators ruled Nigeria for twenty nine years. They were years when the country was almost drowned in rivers of blood including a three-year Civil War which  claimed over...

“E ku amojuba awon 82 Chibok girls, o” “What is that supposed to mean in plain English? You better watch your tongue. It will be politically incorrect and suicidal to start making a joke out of something that serious.” “Where is...

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men...

In January of this year, there was a lot of talk about the ghostworkers syndrome in the country with some very heavy, almost depressing, figures reeled out detailing how much the government had lost paying salaries to phantom employees....

The new Nigeria is becoming a reality already. What remains is for us to understand and consciously apply the basic pillars and make it our own. The following are the pillars on which it rests: It recognises that Nigeria is best...

I have some dear Sierra Leonean friends as brothers. Their staple food is rice. And for me a proxy Sierra Leonean worth my salt, I don’t monkey with our rice. Yes, even though Sierra Leone is a poor country,...

About eighteen months after the Enugu Division of Court of Appeal quashed the election of Mrs. Uche Ekwunife as the Senator representing Anambra Central Senatorial District, and ordered a rerun poll to be held within 90 days (from the date...

A political phenomenon which is compared to the French revolution headed by the irrepressible  General Napoleon Bonaparte has just happened in France thus reinforcing the strong doubts i do have about the expression that lightening  doesn't strike twice in...

What will the Hajj fare for the 2017 Hajj be? Without any atom of doubt, this is the most resounding question going on in the minds of Muslims in Nigeria, especially the intending pilgrims who have deposited huge sums...

Louis Odion’s recently published article titled, “Oyegun and the Abuja disease”, in which he savages Chief John Odigie-Oyegun the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is very odious, indeed. Mr. Odion was a commissioner for information under the...