Opinion

The expected cleanup of Ogoniland may save the land but many may never   recover from the terminal diseases pervading Ogoniland and increasingly   killing our people. Shell's lies and irresponsibility has left an   irreparable damage on the health on thousands...

Prologue: this article was published sometime in 2010 with the above title. I have tweaked it a little bit for space and timeliness of the issues. Nigerians are now afraid of packaged foods. If some foods and drinks are not...

When Hamid Ali, the Comptroller-General of Customs Service gave a one-month grace period for all vehicles in the country whose customs duties have not been paid to do so or risk being impounded, he had no inkling of what...

My first major assignment for Newswatch, once Africa’s most cited and best known newsmagazine, was to do preliminary work ahead of the fiftieth anniversary of the golden rule of late Sultan Abubakar Siddiq III. It was one assignment that...

Cultism is one of Nigeria’s most nagging social problems. In work places, towns and cities or communities and even in somewhat sacred of places, there are large congregations of cultists.  It has become a way of life for most...

"I am not upset, I am not upset!” Yet a grown man swears angrily six  times because of last night's pounded yam." Local axiom  Last week I read the following headline; “Reps raise the alarm on  insecurity, cattle invasion...

The quality and the undue concentration of key appointments to the North-East and exclusion of South-East are mentioned as evidence of this", _Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai in a recent 30-page memo to President Muhammadu Buhari. The Igbo people, Christians and...

The political class thrives on tough competition for political power. From developing to developed world, struggle for control of state power marks the political elite as the most vicious and deadly. Yet there should be a time to let...

Descendants of the Herero and Nama people of Namibia on Thursday May 16, 2017 stepped into an American District  Court in  Manhattan. It was the first time in 109 years that the world would, through their descendants, hear the...

The idea that the advent of Internet Communication Technology (CT) has rendered the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) irrelevant in information dissemination and related functions; had since collapsed in the face of strong evidence to the contrary. Rather, facts have shown...