Opinion

It’s the in-thing now: if you have it you must flaunt it – your wealth, status, possessions – in the most public way possible. In this new age of online social media it’s not uncommon to see celebrities – and...

Meetings in secret and behind closed doors have become common these days   in Nigeria. The media had had enough hot titles, though the political   permutations and realignments for 2019 are not yet to be. Why such   meetings are going...

A number of weeks ago, I had posted a very brief analysis of the on-going struggle for power within the Nigeria’s rapacious political elite on my Facebook page. In the brief but cold analysis, I had put aside my...

Double Chief, Mike Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) who had   N75 million frozen in his account on suspicion that they are proceeds of   crime, had claimed they are legal fees. That must have infuriated many   Nigerians; if...

I feel helpless not to mock or inveigh the parade of buffoonery that has become daily libations in the senate. The political landscape in the senate is littered with dubious merchandising acts by terrifyingly corrupt and unrepentant pimping senators. The...

Nothing seems interesting anymore about politics and governance in our nation.  The political landscape has been unstable.  Politicians, who once held sway in the supercilious Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), have begun their palongo (scattered legs) dance by taking shameless refuge in the tentative...

I know it for a fact that the Nigerian political terrain is so   dysfunctional to an extent that the practitioners lack every modicum   of ethical discipline and are indeed persons lacking in ideology.      The typical Nigerian politician has over...

In societies with responsive and responsible leadership, the increasing rate of suicide is all that is needed to put things right. But here in Nigeria, the major concern of those at the helms of affairs is whatever threatens their...

Last week, two key developments relative to the Niger Delta made the news. One was the interview which Asari Dokubo granted Vanguard Newspapers. Apart from insinuating that the Ijaw people owned the Niger Delta, and that the Ijaw are...

Brexit (Britain’s vote to exit the European Union) happened and the world suspected that something was amiss given the celebrated achievements of the bloc, and that the UK would lose out once it left the European Union. And then...