Opinion

Nigeria’s leadership, at every crossroads of our political history, has been largely underwhelming in the task of nation-building and provision of sophisticated infrastructure.  Ours is a tragic nation, bogged down by the prodigality of our leaders.  The best that leadership offers...

Many Nigerians are angry. They discovered  that their prized  garri,   the cassava flakes staple food they  assume proprietorial ownership   over, is being imported from India! The outrage seems justified as we   produce eighty percent of world cassava (Manihot Esculenta) ...

Gombe State as one of the States in the country that has had its own   fair share of insurgency, has before now, been in the news for   unpleasant reasons as a result of the activities of insurgents. This   situation...

The disharmony between Nigeria and the Ogoni people over oil may be a   familiar terrain, the recent and heightened security situation in Ogoni   may no longer be news. But what may not be well known is how the   Nigerian...

The United States is witnessing a disturbing rise in anti-Semitic acts, which are sweeping over the country in wave after wave. In St. Louis, more than a hundred tombstones were tipped over; similar hate crimes have taken place in...

"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...