Opinion

"The Notorious kidnapper, Henry Chibueze, also known as, Vampire who escaped from prison custody on January 27,2017, when some gunmen believed to be his gang members stormed the Owerri High Court in Imo State and rescued him, killing two...

The United Nations (UN) Security Council Visiting Mission to the Lake Chad Basin Region is ground breaking in that this is the first time such mission is being undertaken, not just since Boko Haram unleashed terrorism in the region...

"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.” ― Dwight  Eisenhower My admonition for this week dwells on one man, and how he mirrors as the very epitome of the Nigerian society. Last week this man while...

Ekiti State politics has many interesting scenarios in view of its many peculiarities. But one dimension of the politics of the state that is fast becoming quite worrisome is the emergence of a crop of  barely informed commentators and...

For a while now, the Niger Delta has been on the boil again. Bayelsa, Delta, Rivers and Akwa Ibom constitute the major sources of oil revenue that makes up over 60% of Federal Government foreign exchange earnings and over...

In his first Address to the Joint Session of the American Congress on February 28, President Donald Trump  delivered his expected message of intolerance in the garb of a tolerant democrat. To counter his  racist image, he began by...

When President Muhammadu Buhari took over the running of governmental affairs at the centre in 2015, not many believe he was going to show any serious commitment to the development of the Niger Delta region. The thinking was that...

The history of governorship politics in Edo state, at various intersections since 1999, is very fresh in my mind.  But of great interest to me is the April 14, 2007 election that pitted Senator Oserhiemen Aigberaodion Osunbor of the Peoples...

I read a series of reports about the possibility of a national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, running for an elective office in 2019.  In the reports, which were variously slanted by the...

The recent upsurge in anti-immigrant attacks in South Africa has renewed concerns about the episodic wave of what some people call xenophobic attacks in that country. It is estimated that between 2008 and 2015, about 350 people  lost their...