Opinion

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...

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...