Opinion

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...

When he was barely a few weeks in office, the world renowned Economist wrote a scathing criticism against his competence to run the demanding task of governing Lagos. The magazine concoluded that Governor Akinwumi Ambode cannot fit into the...

The Mavrodi, Melnikova , Mavrodi  (MMM)  international scam known in Nigeria as the  Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox,  has from all intents and purposes, collapsed in Nigeria. It took along, the savings and hopes of about three million Nigerians. Some of...

It’s a little over eighteen months and some Nigerians are beginning to suggest that the Buhari/Osinbajo administration quit the ‘blame game’ of linking the country’s socio-economic woes to the Goodluck Jonathan misadventure! This is a hard take even though...

The relations between unpredictable allies, Russia and Turkey, appear to have deteriorated in the past few years. The relationship between Moscow and Ankara have deteriorated since the Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet shot a Russian Su-24 bomber out...

It is difficult to match the state of being dead with a towering personality like, Wole Sodipe, one of the founding vice presidents of Platinum Bank, the man we affectionately call The Oracle. At about 3.05am on November 25, I...