Opinion

The Jigawa state government has just announced a major state  development project: the construction of ninety mosques; three in each  of the constituencies. One assumes that this project is a way that the  government wants to use to show...

Most Nigerians will commend the performance, so far, of the honourable  minister since the beginning of his tenure as the minister for works,  housing and power and his antecedent in the transformation that took  place in Lagos state when...

It is usually a thing of shock to come into consciousness that the phenomenon called death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain every mortal. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a...

The necessity of career colleges is crucial to development of the socio  economy of any country, especially the developing ones, like ours,  because career colleges provide students with options based on not only  “what they learn” but “how they...

Just when you thought it was safe to come out from behind the sofa Donald Trump trumps Hilary Clinton to become the 45th President of America. In a shock election victory he won 276 electoral college votes to Hilary Clinton...

One would think that after years of service to the government, retirees  should have some pension to live on.  It is probably too much to ask  various government agencies to pay retirees a living wage considering  the low level...

“Through her voice I saw a free woman, down on her land, a woman who  knew how to kill her own chickens, hunt her own possum, cut her own  cotton, fix her own roof, make her own whiskey, walk...

Anybody who wants to know the extent of damage inflicted on the nation  in years of the locusts should visit Apapa and Tin Can Island to see  the state of the roads leading the premier ports. I have an...

Hardly a day goes by without a report from the print, electronic and social media on sexual assault against children. And so our hearts bleed. Most of us experience goose bumps and tears well up in our eyes. All...

In the bid to amplify his strides - imagined, still-in-the-pipeline and real - former President Jonathan recruited the services of an American based Pastor named Reno Omokri to be his Social Media Special Assistant. Without asking what his job description...