Opinion

There are communities who allegedly rejoice at the prospect of war. In Nigeria, the Ijesha people in the Western part are said to be one of such. But generally, nobody or group rejoice in fighting wars unless there are...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s strategists, if they are at work at all, are chasing ants and ignoring the elephant in the room. They do him great disservice. Their oversight is hubristically determined either by incapacity or a vendetta-induced distraction. It...

The full scale midnight assault on the residences of justices of the high court, court of appeal and Supreme Court marked an alarming new low in Nigeria's history and a rapid descent into dictatorship of former military strongman-turned elected...

Unfortunately there is no body of document that one can resort to in defining what the tasks of a National Security Adviser (NSA) are. The job description is agreed to be what the incumbent Commander-in-Chief says it is. The...

I usually do not read the output of what I consider any writer’s figment of imagination rather than on facts. But this one by Lauretta Onochie caught my eyes not because she is the latest needless burden on our...

President Muhammadu Buhari has come under severe criticism in recent time concerning his speeches. It could be recalled that last month, President Buhari was accused of plagiarizing President Obama speech while launching the “Change Begins with me campaign”. Consequent...

Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana came before Bernie Sanders in United States. But between both was Canadian David Lewis, NDP Leader from 1971 to 1975.  In 1972 Lewis published one of the most insightful book called Corporate Welfare Bums on...

Recently there has been an international uproar at the number of black people being shot dead by the police in America. The situation has become so bad that an organisation called ‘Black Lives Matter’ has been set up to...

Ardent followers of the political events in the ruling All Progressives Congress(APC) in the country would express consternation on how things are beginning to fall apart with centre no longer holding in the party that was consummated less than...

In contemporary political philosophy, John Rawls is the last man standing on the idea of justice. He said that justice is akin to the processes involved in the distribution of the goods of life. By ‘goods’, Rawls is generally...