Opinion

In 1988 an Italian company came under the cover of night and dumped highly toxic nuclear waste in Koko, a port in Delta State. Most of us were mere children then, unaware what that hue and cry was. But...

“If you tell a lie big enough and been repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it”. This was one of the quotes attributed to Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief, though versions of this were also attributed to...

Every three years in the village of Toraja in South Sualwesi, in Indonesia they hold a very strange festival. They exhume the bodies of their deceased relatives, clean them up, dress them in new clothes and put them on display. While...

Some of us would remember the popular movie that featured the iconic Hollywood star Clint Eastwood titled, THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE UGLY? For the purpose of appraising the state of the nation today, l would like to characterize Nigerians...

The “missing Chibok girls” was one of the leading high-points laced around the campaign of the All Progressives Congress during the run up to the 2015 elections. The previous administration of Goodluck Jonathan was taunted and harangued for caring...

I believe the ‘Change Begins With Me,’ campaign inaugurated recently by President Muhammadu Buhari has failed, if not dead on arrival. Buhari had, in his speech at the inauguration, said before Nigerians could see the change he promised, during...

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." Mark Twain The Police and the media are two institutions that are aimed at ensuring that the society lives well based on lawful and orderly conduct in the...

Nigerians distrust their government. It is reason why all the past image or re-orientation campaigns launched by previous governments failed and why the latest #Changebeginswithme project may not fly. I should know. I was part of the Rebranding Nigeria...

Apparently the man to beat in the 2019 race for the governorship is Dr. Muhammad Sani Bello. For the very few who might not know him, Bello is the current Financial Controller for ECOWAS Institutions at ECOWAS Commission. To those...

Nigerian historians will definitely scribble the activities of Dame, Patience Jonathan as the most controversial First Lady in the history of the country. When you analyse her according to the support she has given to her husband in the...