Opinion

Power is transient. Despite this ancient and eternal truth, transition of power from an incumbent to  a successor can be quite complex. Very few can be as seamless as that in Mauritius on Monday January 23. Prime Minister Anerood...

I had the privilege  of covering  the legal dispute between the defeated Rivers APC Governorship Candidate, Mr Dakuku Peterside and Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike from the Election  Tribunal through to the Supreme Court.  The Supreme Court experience  was spiritual...

I took no Philosophy course in my undergraduate days in the University of Ife - now Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU ) - but I got to know Dr. Oladipo Fashina quite well. My introduction to him 38 years ago,...

Anyone who had the civilized temperament to listen to Senator Nelson Effiong’s interview on planet radio, Uyo would not dispute the assertion that the Distinguished Senator is a study in contradiction. How he got himself into this wonky mode...

“We must recover the whole sense of gift, of gratuitousness, of solidarity. Rampant capitalism has taught the logic of profit at all costs, of giving to get, of exploitation without looking at the person... and we see the results...

Former governor of Jigawa state, Alhaji Sule Lamido, has served notice of his intention to throw his hat in the ring for the position of Nigeria’s president in 2019.  It is his right to do so.  He has the requisite backing...

This morning in my small office somewhere in the nation’s capital, I had the fortune of chancing on my old school notebook which I used in my philosophy first year in 1988 and the aspect that pulled greater interest...

This piece was inspired by the transcript of a speech given by Princeton Nathan Lyman, former US Ambassador to Nigeria (1986–89) and South Africa (1992–95) at Chinua Achebe Colloquium at Brown University in December 2009. The speech was entitled,...

These are indeed strange times. These are times when the rule of the thumb has become the normal. And nothing we know is as it should be. For the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), you cannot be sure what...

The very idea or insinuation that President Buhari is anti North and anti Islam is to say the least, preposterous and mischievous. The truth is that those making the scathing attacks on the person and the government of President...