Opinion

The day Nigeria marked her 56th Independence Anniversary; Pastor Poju Oyemade of Covenant Christian Centre gave us a real treat on The Platform, it was a good moment to reflect on the ordeals and trajectories of our nation. Pastor...

From the onset, let me affirm that the theme of this piece derives from an ongoing investigative hearing into the alleged maladministration and mismanagement of huge funds released by the  Nigerian government to cater for the hundreds-of-thousands of internally...

Much has been written about the unfolding tragedy in Syria, but how many of these unimaginable atrocities have been etched in the consciousness of the American public? As president, Obama refuses to rise up to stop this unfathomable horror;...

Recently, at a world economic forum, WEF event, US Secretary of State,  John Kerry told his audience how Nigerian military generals shared amongst themselves 9 billion dollars that had been set aside for purchase of arms to prosecute the...

On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice otherwise called the ECOWAS Court declared the arrest and continued detention of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki as unlawful, unreasonable and arbitrary. As reported by Premium...

When Karl Maier published his book This House Has Fallen: Midnight in Nigeria  in the year  2000, I was probably among the first people he gave an advance copy of the book months before it was formally published. I...

LAST YEAR'S RESULTS OF NATIONAL EXAMINATION COUNCIL (NECO) AND WEST AFRICA EXAMINATION COUNCIL (WAEC) HAVE OPENED OUR EYES ONCE AGAIN TO THE STEADY DECLINE IN QUALITY OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA. THE SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS REVEALED THAT, OF THE...

The first time I saw President Obama on television was when he addressed National Democratic Party convention in 2004. And this was before he became the president of US. Then Obama was campaigning for United States senate and he...

Prolonged periods of depressed oil prices have punished most oil export dependent countries in 2016 with Nigeria being no exception. When one factors in that the nation receives over 90% of export and 70% government revenues from oil which...

So, Nigeria is 56? Just a speck of time in the life of a nation! But 56 years is sufficient a time to show where the pendulum swings to. If the past is anything to be deduced from, those...