Opinion

INTRODUCTION ​It gives me great pleasure to address my childhood constituency, the Barewa Old Boys Association.   It is a singular honour indeed to be invited to deliver the 2016 Annual Lecture.  This lecture is long rooted  in a tradition within...

Attacks Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina. And guess who came to show his uncouthness in Abuja. No other than Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi! Those who knew he tagged along to the meeting of the President by the Niger Delta Stakeholders, would wonder...

Three components of Nigerian laws are: The Constitution, Laws made by legislature since the adoption of the constitution, and Supreme court’s decisions. The constitution expressly prohibits the legislatures from making what is known in legal parlance as ex post...

The current presidential campaigns in the US has  exposed the underbelly of American democracy which should force us to re-think some of the assumptions we have about ‘mature democracies’ and ‘democratising states’. The classic assumption is that in mature...

Nigerians are resourceful, innovative and desperate people. That is why it’s the second country in Africa MMM “wonder bank” scheme birthed and is festering with over 1.5 million participants. The combination of some of the qualities associated with an...

Former President Goodluck Jonathan seems to have broken his long silence since eviction from Aso Rock Villa last year. He has been quiet, watching in utter surprise the demystification and unveiling of the plague of his six-year reign of...

It’s strange that whenever you mention the word ‘SEX’ it grabs  everybody’s attention: they drop everything they are doing and want to  read more. Well I’m sorry for misleading you for I’m not about to talk about  ‘SEX’ today but...

The oil-rich delta region of southern Nigeria - called Niger Delta - is  larger than 70,000 square kilometers with a population larger of over 35  million people - larger than the population of Saudi Arabia, Belgium,  Australia, Greece, Netherlands,...

Setting the records straight The recent statement by Dr. Orji Uzor which appeared on some major newspapers that Igbos are their worst own enemies calls for great concern and anyone who knows the Bendel State born politician should call him...

Less than a week from today, Americans will make a choice of who would  succeed President Barrack Obama next January after the first ever  Black American president would have served his two terms of four years  each in the...