Opinion

The Nigerian Legislature as an arm of Government and particularly the institution of the Senate has always been a subject of major discuss within the Nigerian polity. Times and times again, the only news we hear about the upper...

Are you surprised that Ooni of Ife reduced Oba of Lagos below his level? The first indication of class was how they got to the throne. When the people of Lagos protested that Tinubu should not be in a...

I met him for the first time in April 2001. It was at the office of Mr Chris Mammah, the ebullient Special Assistant (Media) to the then Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. However, the reputation of Dr Adinoyi Ojo Onukaba...

One final step before a law passed by the Legislature becomes Law is for it to scale the final formal process of the Executive Assent. The Assent signifies the readiness and eagerness of the Executive Arm of Government to...

Civilization and modern forms of governance have drastically diminished the power and authority of monarchs. Fading, not faded, our hidden admiration for primordial values sustains the influence of monarchs on government and the governed. Monarchs currently have no constitutional...

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” Thomas Campbell, a Scottish poet, who served as Lord Rector of Glasgow University  from 1826–1829. PRESS RELEASE On April 30, 1932, in the sleepy, rural community of Mopa, in the present day Mopa-muro local...

At independence our leaders failed to define the qualities of an exceptional country so diverse yet so similar that other African countries can discern a Nigerian no matter the ethnic origin. The emphasis was on replacing the colonial masters...

The Republic of South Sudan, the young, land-locked  African country   which became independent of Sudan on July 9, 2011 is edging closer to   genocide. The conflict which began in December 2013 when President Salva   Kirr accused Vice President Reik...

With the likes of Binta Nyako as judges in the Nigerian justice system it is impossible to reform the delivery of justice to Nigerians. Justice Nyako’s is so ignorant of the meaning of justice that one wonders how she...

I acknowledge with great esteem the wonderful piece in response to my   personal opinion on the need to appoint a Chief Imam from amongst the   three deputy Imams presiding over the Friday prayers in rotation at the   national Mosque Abuja. I...