Opinion

The judgement by the court of appeal reinstating Mr Eyitayo Jegede SAN as the authentic candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo State has sent the people of the state on wild...

In 2011 when I graduated as a diploma student at the federal polytechnic, Bauchi, a friend told me about American University of Nigeria, Atiku’s University based in Yola, the Adamawa state capital. Looking at my result, he encouraged me...

For many years, resources from crude oil have muzzled the capacity by Nigeria to be creative on ways to manage funds, grow wealth and invent nifty ideas for nation building. It has rather infused in successive leaders and the...

Both as a journalist and now Civil Society activist, I have had the fortune of relating with China from a very close official proximity. In 2005, whilst working in THE GUARDIAN, I was privileged to be selected as the only...

The Muhammadu Buhai administration, through several agencies, has been battling a headwind in the fight against corruption in the polity. This is made the more daunting, as the typical Nigerian politician has assimilated the 'statement and provocative poem' by Pastor...

Reno Omokiri, has, apparently become desperately enamoured in making his former boss, Dr Goodluck Jonathan look good in the eye of the Nigerian public. Well, perhaps, we should submit from observed inclination of his writings which tend more to...

An insurance executive in Lagos who sought to relocate to Ota, Ogun and probably bring along foreign partners for a new firm was held back by reports of the violent activities of land speculators. He gathered that these land...

The recent request from President Buhari for legislative authorization for an external borrowing of almost $30bn is a sharp reminder that history truly moves in circles and that human memories are short.  It should be recalled that Africa’s debt...

The article with the above caption written by Chief Dele Momodu is a good study on the wilful capitulation of a typical Nigerian columnist fired by an instinct for survival. At a time Nigeria is battling with recession, writers...

I first met Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Turakin Adamawa and former Vice President of Nigeria, in 1994 at his former residence on Lekki Taba Street, Jimeta, Yola, Adamawa state. He was then a delegate to the Constitutional Conference convened...