Opinion

General Collin Powell tells me that “_A DREAM DOES NOT BECOME   REALITY THROUGH MAGIC, IT TAKES SWEAT, DETERMINATION AND HARD WORK_”   JOHN LENNON_ ALSO TELLS ME THAT “BEING HONEST MAY NOT GET YOU MANY   FRIENDS BUT IT WILL ALWAYS...

It is politically correct and simplistic for anyone to demand the arrest and prosecution of Apostle Johnson Suleiman, the outspoken and controversial Founder and General Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries over his recent belligerent utterances against those said...

The world had barely settled down to the reality of Brexit when Donald Trump trounced Hillary Clinton to clinch victory in an election that would eventually shame the power of opinion polls. Trump purportedly played a fast one on...

A bímọ kò gbọ́n, a ní kó má ṣàá kú; kí ní ńpa ọmọ   bí àìgbọ́n? (A child lacks wisdom, and some say that what is   important is that the child does not die; what kills more surely than  ...

Nigerians should not comment on what they do not really have detail reports of, as this is largely responsible for the escalation of the situation. My findings so far show that everyone is talking from the position of strength....

Sometime last year, after the gruesome attacks on communities in Agatu   local government which claimed over 500 lives, a leader of the herdsmen,   Ardo Boderi Tuja, said they attacked and killed people because,   according to him, over 10,000 of...

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Initiative, NEITI, has done great work since inception. In its 2014 Report, it highlighted a wide range of activities and achievements, and the feather in its cap is its endorsement by EITI as the Best...

It is no longer in doubt that our former Army General, current President and Commander-in-Chief, Muhammadu Buhari, has fumbled and is wobbling out of relevance, out of government control. The man has indeed lost control of governance and, by...

Nigeria has English as formal language and as lingua franca. She has over 300 languages and three of them – Hausa, Ibo and Yoruba - are said to be ‘major’. But most Nigerians have noticed that the emblem of the...

If Africa's growth is retarded, Nigeria's must be stagnated. And if indeed stagnated, the nation's ascendance to the sorry pass must mean a culmination of plural particulars. No doubt, plethora alibis explain the retardation or stagnation as qualifications for...