Opinion

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...

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...