Opinion

This piece was motivated by two inter-related developments: the first is the furore caused by several corruption allegations against some top officials of the Buhari government and the reported directive by the President to the Attorney General of the...

For over five years I have been living in Europe, and I have never at   any time been as worried as I am right now for humankind. I have never had any reason to be more apprehensive or more...

At a period like this when the cloud over Nigeria seems to be that of doom and gloom, it's easy for the challenging job of keeping the country together and afloat to be unrecognized. In an uncanny manner,President Muhamadu Buhari,...

The 2016 election is over and the winners and losers have been identified. In this preliminary result sheet are the major winners and losers. As time goes on we will keep updating the results. The final report card will...

President Muhammadu Buhari should admit, today, not tomorrow, that his so-called war against corruption is unserious, tiresome, illegitimate, hypocritical, and a waste of Nigerians’ time. Right away, he ought to end the charade that claims to be a war....

There are three major traditional roles performed by the mass media. They are to inform, educate, and entertain. In carrying out these roles, the mass media attain other ancillary functions such as persuading/influencing the society; socialising, and integrating the...

And here comes the moment. Two senior officials of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration have been accused of corruption and the allegations against them are coming from no other source than within the government itself. The Secretary to the Government...

In Nigeria, the proliferation of cabals has led to leadership deficit   where nitwits are ‘selected’ to work for a government of a few, for   a few by a few. While that may be phasing out on account of the...

Cameroonians got their chance of introducing into the syllabus of Comedy and Other Comic Forms (a subject I taught in my other career), what seemed like a variant of the domestic nature of humour and wit, when in the...

About three weeks ago, I was home in the evening glued to the Cable Network News (CNN) to follow developments around the globe when my phone peeped. By the time I checked, it was a broadcast on one of...