Opinion

If Africans at home cannot save themselves, nobody will. We are always looking up to Heaven for manna and saviors instead of looking within us for help. Well, we are now shifting that task to African children in Diaspora....

Since Reuters broke the news on August 22 2016 that the government would be seeking for emergency powers to enable it fix the economy, Nigerians have been debating the pros and cons of that yet- to- be confirmed Bill....

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...