Opinion

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...

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...