Opinion

On July 26, the media was awash with news of the commissioning of the Abuja-Kaduna railway project. The news elicited a tweet from the PDP via their official twitter handle. This eventually sparked off a controversy on who should...

A gentleman from southern Kaduna State which is a Christian dominated part of Northern Nigeria who incidentally was once in the National Assembly as a legislator gave me a call in the wee hours of today. This man whose identity...

Nigeria went to Rio, Brazil and, as the world looked on, gave a thoroughly embarrassing account of itself. Don’t get me wrong: this swipe is not targeted at the heroic men and women who represented us in a variety of...

The Ekiti State House of Assembly has again shown that it will not shirk its responsibility of protecting the interest of the constituents who voted its members in. On Tuesday, 23 August, the Assembly made a resolution that is...

I am grateful to God Almighty for making me a follower of the Islamic faith before I was thrown into the repugnant strings of claims and counter claims of its owners, forerunners or custodians in Nigeria. Islam will remain...

Our most recent cause for another round of abrasive comments and countermanding ripostes is this innocuously named "Emergency Economic Stabilisation Bill 2016,” said to have been in the works by the National Economic Team. I thought the implied substance...

I have written a lot about former president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, mostly toeing the bandwagon of insults at him. It is however interesting that no matter the volume of the write, just like onions, the story continues to burrow...

It would be exactly two weeks and a couple of days today from one of Nigeria’s keenly contested elections – the Edo. I remember back then, the titanic battle between the NRC and the SDP in the days of...

It's funny really about the things that bother us as a people. To the fact that we were once the happiest people; add that to, the fact we are equally in the top tier of the most religious people...

It is painfully humiliating when flagrant budget padding and stealing not known as corruption   were also displayed to the external world. When salary was not paid, one resorted to stealing to feed family. Hijacking money was not only in...