Opinion

FACEBOOK Founder, Mark Zuckerberg is in Lagos, Nigeria unannounced.  He is here to 'learn' and to inspire. He is 32 years old and ranks as the fifth richest man in the world and he is worth 53.7 billion dollars....

I read a story in a book that when Lily Pinneo, a missionary nurse, was in West Africa, she contracted a deadly disease called Lassa fever. After Lily was flown to New York for medical treatment, her temperature soared...

It’s heart-warming to note efforts by the present administration led by President Muhammadu Buhari to invigorate the economy for the overall interest of Nigerians. One of such proposals is the ‘Emergency Economic Stabilisation Bill 2016’ seeking emergency powers from...

As a novelist, I frequently experience the sensation that I could never invent imaginative events that, in their tragic or absurd extraordinariness, can stand beside the strangeness of life as it is lived in Nigeria. Indeed, I follow public...

Perhaps, ambled into wakefulness from slumber, quite angry too, a Nigerian, symbolizing the mindsets of millions of other voiceless Nigerians assert this rather affirmative melody, as reflected in the caption. “Yes, President Buhari is Still the Change.” It is...

“…Security is development, without development, there can be no security.”- Robert McNamara The rate of kidnapping in Rivers State has recently assumed an alarming and worrisome dimension. Major parts of the State are under siege and not innocuous anymore. People...

What is the best way to unite Hausa and Igbo? Yoruba Presidency! If some of the speculations bear out, Buhari will not honor his one term pledge for the usual reason given by others, that he needs to implement...

For two hours this morning, I entered into high level deliberation with a high profile official of the NATIONAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. UNDERSTANDABLY, our focus was  on the growing emergency situations in the terror-ravaged North East of Nigeria. We also...

Since the emergence of the former Attorney General and commissioner for Justice in Ondo State, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, as the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, the political climate of the state has changed. The chess-game and permutations within the...

Listening to opponents of the idea these days, one is left with the impression that constitutional restructuring of Nigeria will, willy-nilly, set this beautiful country of wonderful people on the path of disintegration. The mere thought of a break...