Opinion

Nigeria has indeed seen tough times, tough times that have lasted over six years, with accompanying wanton destruction of lives and properties running into billions of naira. While it is argued in some quarters that the Boko Haram crisis...

In our present political predicament, we have three options: a federalism with an all-powerful central government, a decentralized federal government, and a fragmented Nigeria supplanted by separation. The first option of a powerful and tyrannical federal government is what...

I believe that the frenzied quest by disaffected Igbo youth for Biafra represents, above all, an indictment of the kind of leaders who for close to twenty years have run the affairs of the southeastern states. Those agitating for...

When 15 million plus Nigerians voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2015 General elections, their expectation was that he would be available to serve them 24/7/365, and that those who fielded him as their candidate had done their...

It was truly ‘hotter than July’ when the Nigerian Airways Boeing 737  landed at the Maiduguri Airport that July afternoon in 1981. Time was 5  pm but, as we alighted from the aircraft, it was so hot the heat...

President Trump remained true to his customary flip-flopping on just about every issue when he stated during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu that he is “looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that...

Since the inception of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu's administration on May 29, 2015, it has been rain of awards. The awards have come from religious groups and secular organistaions and these awards have greatly reflected the reforms the governor has...

Every new President in the United States spends his first month in office getting to know and thank the people who elected him into office, talking (politely) to fellow world leaders, selecting his executive team, using the media to...

It is one of the ironies of life while people in comparatively affluent countries demand more accountability from their governments, the reverse has been the case in the backwaters of the world. Long before the peripatetic Tunisian grocery vendor,...

Alfred Ilenre was a name whispered in news rooms when I became a professional journalist in the early 1980s. He was one of the leading journalists in the country. Veteran Labour leader, playwright and patriot, Jonathan Ihonde was in 1965, ...