Opinion

Abusing the privilege of free press is bad, but locking up sexual accusers as a deterrent to discourage sexual abuse report is worse. The right many societies has given women to report sexual harassment or abuse is a balancing...

The National Assembly comprising the Nigerian Senate and the House of Representatives owing to the account of its establishment is supposed to be the most respected organ of government which in the Nigerian context should not only exist as...

Certificate Forgery or what is popularly called “oluwole certificate” is not a new trend  in Nigeria. To tell you how much of a big industry fake certificate syndication   has become I will like you to remember that a very popular...

When God created the world, according to the Bible, it was dark. God said ‘Let there be light, and there was light’ The probable exception is Nigeria where for over fifty years, the people have been subjected to almost...

I once wrote about Nigeria’s “children of anger”, but the country seems to have progressed from anger to clinical depression, resulting in a rise not merely in social aggressiveness, but a determination by certain individuals to escape from it...

Nigeria is practicing a democratic system where the ruling All   Progressive Congress (APC) is acting as opposition within itself while   the Peoples Democratic Party is performing worse than it ever did when   it was in government. With the ruling...

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...