Opinion

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...

To say the war against corruption is far from over is stating the obvious. Efforts by well meaning Nigerian citizens to own their own government, fight corruption and direct energy towards real developments may have been foiled by our...

I would start my column this week with this story...one I am sure that we have read or seen at one point or the other. I want us to reflect on it, and the following narratives about the United...

Preamble- Africa and the poverty and misery dilemma Africa is still battling the triple challenges of poverty, inequality and de-industrialisation. These challenges combined to stifle her development. Nevertheless, rather than lament, African trade unions have elected to be focused and...

With the recent call by psychiatrists in the country for the setting up of Mental Health Bill into law, ODIMEGWU ONWUMERE writes that there is need to pay heed to the call given the concerted and coordinated concern that...