Opinion

“I think President Muhammadu Buhari is sensitive to the diversity of this country. He has more than 6,000 appointments to make. He is bound, even if he doesn’t wish it, by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to...

The world is at war on various fronts and continents with no end in sight. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel on Tuesday May 2, 2017, travelled to Sochi, Russia to discuss the state of two of the wars with Russian...

For the third (or fourth) time in a row, President Muhammadu Buhari has missed the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting fueling insinuations that he must be “critically ill”. Some online media platforms reported on Tuesday May 2, 2017...

There are important lessons to be learnt from the detention and recent release of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), a breakaway faction of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra. MASSOB was...

This article was provoked by a news item in the Independent newspaper of Tuesday 25th April, 2017 in which the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) claimed to have among other things carried out some acts of corporate social responsibility....

Two weeks ago, as I was moving some of my personal effects - mainly books - from the office, I had to, in my own interest, resort to full disclosure of the contents of the ghana-must-go bags to my gateman, who...

The Immediate past President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan entered global political history book when he voluntarily conceded electoral victory in March 2015 to his arch- political rival of the All Progressives Congress (APC) (Major General) Muhammadu Buhari (RTD) as he...

April 29th this year was a Saturday. It was my birthday and friends came to wish me well. It rained, not very much really but it was pretty cold outside. The tiny "rain" caused so much traffic delays. My friends...

Corruption is a burning national issue. We must all come together for our ‘fight against corruption‘. By ‘corruption’ people usually mean actual bribery, nepotism, misuse of public money and other offenses like hoarding, profiteering, black-marketing and smuggling. Corruption is rampant in...

For every self-acclaimed strong man, there is a God who takes away even the captive of the mighty and delivers the prey of the terrible. History has a way of repeating itself. Very early in the life of this world, there...