Opinion

Since the travel of President Muhammadu Buhari to the UK for medical reasons, the nation has been rife with the rumoured death of the president which, thankfully, his spokespersons, Femi Adeshina and Garba Shehu, have debunked. In fact, there...

My family, the Igbokwe family of Uruagu Nnewi, Anambra State is one of    the largest families in Igboland and Nigeria. It is made up of 19    families with each man having not less than three wives. My father had   ...

In the midst of an excruciating economic recession in which majority of Nigerians couldn't afford the bare necessities to celebrate the Yuletide, 2016 though ended with some very cheering news for 2017, and beyond. They include: The Military takeover of...

President Muhammad Buhari is such a lucky president who came at the time of need; though he had seen; he is attempting to conquer. He has come on a rescue mission. But not lucky in the Nigerian context because...

Dear Nigerians, Let me seize this opportunity to once again wish you a Happy New Year. Indeed 2016 was a very challenging year for all of us, but I believe that with the efforts of both the Government and...

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...