Opinion

Hardly a day goes by when there isn’t a news report about a minor being sexually abused by a much older person. And the shocking thing is that for every case reported dozens are not because the young victims...

The departure of Gambia’s leader of twenty-two years, former president Yahya Jammeh on the 21st of January, 2017 into exile in Guinea is a good ending to a drama that while it lasted created fear, foreboding and uncertainty, not only...

Before last month’s heroic capture of the Boko Haram stronghold at Sambisa Forest in Borno State, the Nigerian soldier had not had a good public image for 45 years. The last time soldiers were seen as heroes here was...

It was on a contagiously sanguine note that the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma, rounded his public presentation of the 2017 budget to a select group of stakeholders and journalists December last year: "I wish...

The sack the other day of Mr. Jim Obazee, former Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRCN), and the dissolution of the Council's Board, shows three glaring anomalies in the system: indiscipline, pursuit of...

The extent to which Nigerians have fragmented along ethno-religious components can only be measured in the direction of wish list drafted along unfortunate cleavage based perspectives. The nation is balkanized, serially polarized and dangerously fired up with hate agenda...

I want to this week talk about the men and women that are supposed to be helping Buhari. Many people say that followers are often a reflection of their leaders, however in Nigeria that is one axiom that isn’t...

Friday the 20th of January 2017, President Donald J. Trump was officially recognised as the ruler of the free world. However you feel about him, like him or not, he must be respected and if not, feared. So I penned...

Prophecies, as normal, have been released by different people on the Nigerian state and President Muhammad Buhari. These are speculations and intellectual foresights. Psychologically, some guesswork can actually manifest. But these days, the prophecies by many people claiming supernatural...

As you read this, supporters of Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB and Ralph Uwazuruike of MASSOB remain in the trenches with live hand grenades at the steady. Their target, and this is strange, is not compatriots they regularly label as beasts....