Opinion

Whether it was borne out of his operational knowledge or out of belief   driven decisiveness, the directive by Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt Gen   Tukur Buratai to troops fighting in the northeast to deal Boko Haram the   final...

I was invited to deliver the keynote address at this year’s special event on “Human Rights, Sexuality and the Law”, an annual symposium organized to promote awareness on issues relating to the plight of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,...

Nowadays a lot of people are turning to black magic in order to achieve   all kinds of evil and selfish purposes – controlling or doing harm to   people, accumulating wealth, and promotion at work or to become famous   –...

The Minister of Finance recently announced incentives for whistleblowers as one of the strategies of combating corruption. Since the announcement, the social media has been agog with reactions ranging from: let’s wait and see, to hilarious, and to more bizarre comments like...

“How was your Christmas Day?” “Comme ci, comme ca” “What’s that?” “I am speaking French. You mean you don’t even understand elementary French?” “No, I don’t. Speak English. How was Christmas?” “Low-key. Like this, like that”. “For me, it was a dead-end Christmas” “God forbid. May...

That day was Thursday, January 22nd, 2016. The occasion was the Economic and Security Summit of South East Nigeria. President Muhammadu Buhari, the tough talking, body language-fear-inspiring, retired army general Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces of the federal republic,...

“What’s going on?” The late African-American soul-brother, Marvin Gaye, asked that question in a 1971 song that became a monster hit on Tamla Motown label and sold over two million copies, becoming Gaye's second-most successful Motown song. While that song...

It has been one grudge fight which many knew would not be one-sided. It   hasn’t been! From the onset, discerning Nigerians guessed, and rightly   too, that corruption, the barrel-chested and hard-hitting defending   champion will change tactics. This time, corruption...

Kemi Adeosun was appointed as the Honourable Minister of Finance just over 12 months ago, in that time, many have made her the scapegoat of all that's ailing our great nation Nigeria.  We blame her for virtually everything both...

Whenever I hear those who ought to know say that Nigeria’s main problem is ethnicity, I often begin to develop cold feet. They seem to argue that if not for ethnicity (a colonial construct), the country would have move...