Opinion

I consider the tale-bearings targeted at two eminent Nigerians - His Royal Highness, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS), the emir of Kano, and former education minister and co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG), Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili- as allegations bordering on the...

Many Nigerians resent truth. They abhor it and seek to cage it within   the prisms of their crooked instincts. When President Muhammadu Buhari   launched the national re-orientation campaigns for attitudinal change   tagged #ChangeBeginsWithMe, many Nigerians never saw the wisdom....

The cases of child sexual abuse and defilement of underage/teenage girls   at schools, at home and in between are quotidian. The story of the   16-year-old JSS III student of Day Secondary School Tunga Minna, who was   allegedly impregnated by...

In Nigeria at the moment, there’s a word, or more appropriately buzzword that resonates everywhere: It is a word that even children in nursery school may be familiar with given every usual reference to it at the slightest opportunity. Indeed,...

The news of the demise of Dipo Famakinwa swamped the social media. He was the Director General of the Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission. Famakinwa died last Friday at a Lagos hospital before he could be ferried...

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and, therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." John Donne Southern Kaduna is a microcosm of Nigeria.  It is, by any stretch of...

When last week, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to suspend the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Director General of the Nigeria Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ayo Oke in order to allow unfettered investigations of both...

The postponement of the 2017 edition of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) provoked a heated debate among journalists at the Oyo State Correspondents’ office in Ibadan recently. The JAMB registrar, Professor Is-haq...

Who gives kidnappers and armed robbers your intimate information and location while money hoarders sleep well at night? They should explore more graveyards and soak-away for big loots. Unless you are flamboyant, rich or a conspicuous spender, chances are...

After an unusually stressful day on Wednesday 19st April, 2017 I decided to attend a hangout programme organized by a small group of old-time friends back then at Ife University which held here in a hotel at Apapa, Lagos....