Opinion

American Secretary of State John Kerry paced through Nigeria August 23-24 talking counter-terrorism, economy, anti-corruption and human rights. I watched to see if the unipolar world power has had a change of heart towards us. If it had, I wondered...

IT TAKES PATIENCE TO LISTEN... IT TAKES SKILL TO PRETEND THAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY LISTENING. I am going to start this week's admonition with this lengthy story, but please bear with me, and let us read it together... A NYC Taxi...

Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari said after the 2011 elections that “if what happened then (alleged rigging) should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” He did...

There have been controversies over the hosting of the Olympic Games. In fact there have been mass boycotts. For instance, most African countries boycotted the 1976 Games due to the non-expulsion of New Zealand which maintained close sporting links...

Last year November-December 2015, nearly 200 countries converged in Paris France to ratify the Climate Change deal which the Conference of Parties, COP, had negotiated in April of that same year. That convergence was not new nor was it...

Ever since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta more than sixty years ago the lives of the people there have been blighted by widespread ecological and environmental pollution. It has reduced residents’ life expectancy, led to the abandonment...

I read the dismissive and unsatisfactory reaction of presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu to the worrisome and ferociously  contested case of Mr. Joachim Foretemose Iroko Chinakwe as published on his social media accounts, specifically on Facebook and Twitter, in...

‘A prophet has no honour in his own country’, is certainly a saying that is not applicable to Nigeria’s military, which has recently proven it can attract accolades from home and abroad. Such accolades came from no less a person...

Nigerians grieved, parents wailed loudly and inconsolably, April 14, 2014 when Boko Haram terrorists assailed and abducted about 276 adolescent secondary school girls in Chibok, the country’s Northeastern state of Borno. As the helpless girls were agonized in the...

Last Friday, my phones rang again and again (thank God for dead phones gradually playing Lazarus), but what triggered that ring-ring was the article: “The Man Who Named His Dog Buhari” (August 26) in which I had indicated all...