Opinion

It may not be right to generalize on the level of educational qualification of members of the National Assembly, after all only forty out of over 360 members of the House of Representatives are with secondary school certificates. For...

Let me start this tribute in this manner One day, a schoolteacher wrote on the board the following:      *9×1=7*      *9×2=18*      *9×3=27*      *9×4=36*      *9×5=45*      *9×6=54*      *9×7=63*      *9×8=72*      *9×9=81*      *9×10=90* When she was done, she looked back at the students and they were...

I could remember the moment and where I was when news broke  that Fidel   Castro Ruiz, the international symbol of revolutionary change, had   passed  away on Friday November 25. It was  itself an historical moment;   that the most strident...

The US president-elect, Mr Donald Trump threw the luvvies of the world a   curveball with his comments to President Rodrigo Duterte of the   Philippines that his controversial fight against drugs was being carried   out "the right way".  For the...

Any one who had not achieved an objective political awareness by October 1960 would not be said to have experienced Nigeria. This group includes everyone up to sixty years of age, the group that invariably constitutes the vast majority...

Except in extremely isolated cases—for example, as an act of self-defense—it is morally indefensible for individuals to engage in extra-judicial killing. When a government makes it its business to slaughter unarmed citizens, that government reveals itself as criminally thuggish....

I was privileged to attend the grand finale of Gov. Rauf Aregbesola’s   second term bid campaigns in  2014 in Oshogbo stadium where I saw a   crowd that frightened me. I have been attending campaign rallies since   1999 but what...

Following some details in Chief Tony Anenih’s book titled ‘My Life and Nigerian Politics’ that was recently presented to the public, in which the author explained how he stopped Atiku Abubakar’s ambition to succeed his then boss, Chief Olusegun...

In the two countries that I have some knowledge of, USA and Nigeria, citizens have very little respect for political leaders who manage their affairs. They do not trust them because they think they are fickle. Are they feckless...

A  German-born poet and physiognomist, Johann Kaspar Lavater, about five   centuries ago, envisaged the dynamism of the world early enough. It’s   like this intellectual acumen had Nigeria of today in mind, when in solo   mood, insightfully challenged himself; “What...