Opinion

Essential elements of intelligence and the intelligence cycle in overseas relations include what is better described as “the cover story”. It is an old conundrum referring to the story that is put out to the public and sustained as...

Senator Ehigie Uzamere, in an interview he granted to the Punch newspaper on February, 28, 2014, justified why he decamped from the APC to the PDP.  Read him: “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality; and...

President Macky Sall of Senegal is one African leader after my heart. Few weeks into his presidency, the man took one look at the balance sheet and decided the interest of the country would be better served by a...

Since March 4 when residents of Gbagyi Villa Community - a new settlement behind Kaduna Polytechnic by Sabon Tasha were issued notices of demolition amidst heavy security presence in what the Kaduna state government termed illegal encroachment of Kaduna...

The Nigeria Police Force, Ogun State Command has rearrested a 41-year-old trader who named his pet dog "Buhari", Mr. Joe Chinakwe and will arraign him before the Sango Magistrate Court in Ogun State on Monday. It is likely that...

They usually die young; the prophets of their generation. Patrice Lumumba in Congo; Franz Fanon, Algeria; Ernesto Che Guavera, Cuba; Thomas Sankara in Bourkina Faso and Bob Marley of Jamaica. Some live long like Fidel Castro who on August...

Nigeria’s rise to poverty from the abundance of natural resources started nearly fifty years ago when foreign crude oil in monumental quantities buried in the different communities of the Niger-Delta region were found. This discovery of crude oil and the...

The task of ruling a compound -complex nation like Nigeria is not an easy task for anybody. The nation Nigeria is one country with too many problems; from religious suspicions to ethnic distrusts and then political mistrust to inter-...

Dear Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, Call your children to order. Permit me to again write you another letter in the space of three weeks since my last open letter to you. I would have exercised some patience and see how...

As the budget padding controversy rages on members of the public wonder what’s next. When it comes to pilfering public funds Nigerian politicians ought to be awarded a Nobel Prize for the ingenious ways they devise to keep their fingers...