Opinion

Travel & Tourism’s impact on the economic and social development of a country can be enormous; opening it up for business, trade and capital investment, creating jobs and entrepreneurship for the workforce and protecting heritage and cultural values. To...

President Muhammadu Buhari has a robust image even as a civilian elected president as a tough talking military trained professional. Most people still analyze his style of government from the prisms of someone with longstanding military formation. Recently, a retired...

It's an improbable story. Imagine any of the destitute young children we see today: begging on the street, herding cows, selling water. Now imagine them grown up to be successful business people, leaders in education, generous employers, philanthropists, even Vice-President...

On Saturday, August 13, 2016 one Joachin Fortemose Chinakwe (Iroko), aka Joe was arrested by the Sango-Ota Police Division following a complaint by one Halilu Umar. Joachin is accused of naming his dog Buhari and inscribing the name on...

“Dividends of Democracy” is one popular lexicon celebrated by political office holders in Nigeria. It is an unfortunate grand norm of those in power: be it the presidency, states or local governments to elevate government schedule of duties to...

Joe Fortemose Chinakwe, a 30-year-old trader, has been making major headlines since his arrest in Ogun state for naming his dog, Buhari. The man, also known as Joachim Iroko, reportedly spent three days in police cell before he was...

One needs not reenact the story of David and Saul in the Bible to find a modern day version in the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai. As the holy book recounted it, after exceptional exploit...

But for his antecedence as a consummate media handler, one would have been disappointed that Presidential Spokesperson, Ahaji Shehu Garba decided to join issues with the Convener of Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) and former Minister of Education, Mrs....

Nigeria is a huge amusement park. All you need do to have fun is sit back and watch the theatrics of the political gladiators. It is God’s doing, though. Our ability to laugh at our folly and the fact...

INTRODUCTION The SATURDAY GUARDIAN, August 20, 2016, had the front page captioned “NOBODY CAN ISLAMIZE NIGERIA, SAYS SULTAN”. The main story on page two of the paper with another caption, “NOBODY CAN TURN NIGERIA TO ISLAMIC STATE” reads: “The Sultan of Sokoto...