Opinion

Corruption is synonymous with Nigeria, a genre that has been mined to death. I know you're tired of reading about corruption. But forgive me to bore you once more because corruption is one of the things we can't stop...

The recent defection of Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, from the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), has kept tongues wagging on the motive(s), appropriateness or otherwise of it and the...

World attention is focused on the tantrums of Donald Trump, the American   President-elect.  From his vow to get America out of the Trans-Pacific   Partnership on his first day in office,  to his effected show of   magnanimity not to jail...

In most democracies, parliamentary gridlock stems from opposing views on issues by lawmakers of the ruling party/coalition and those of the opposition. However, this happens when the government lacks the controlling majority in the legislature. Not infrequent, though, is stalemate...

We are a nation of people that easily forget. We may, however, not be a  nation that easily forgive. If it seems we forgive grievous sins of  past, serving and future public office holders it is down to the ...

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...