Opinion

On April 14th 2014, the entire globe was greeted with the news of the abduction of over 200 girls who were preparing for an examination, from their school in Chibok, Borno- State. As expected, the barbaric act was greeted...

I have been patiently and anxiously watching the Igbos, one of the ethnic nationalities that make up the federation of Nigeria, their agitation for a sovereign state of Biafra and of course Nnamdi Kanu, the illegally detained leader of the Indigenous...

If President Muhammadu Buhari has thrown his weight behind efforts at exploiting hydrocarbon (crude oil) find in the North, then he is only working on the templates of scientific work during the Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) administration. If he...

In recent years, as more Nigerians begin to pay close attention to the country’s chequered past, the nature of Ironsi’s ascension to power has come under scrutiny. The original general perception is that the rump of the civilian cabinet voluntarily...

Traditionally, Democratic Party presidential candidates build coalition primarily with liberal interest groups, which are mostly racial minorities and working class Americans.  This was how Barrack Obama and Bill Clinton won presidential elections. But this time around in this bizarre...

In one of his usual recriminations, Senate president, Abubakar Bukola Saraki claimed that he was not a pauper by the time he became governor of Kwara state with the support of a doting father he later turned against! No...

On 24 May 1966, a foundation of what would become a major problem to today’s Nigeria was naively and innocently laid by Major General Thomas Johnson Umunnakwe Aguiyi Ironsi through decree 34. Decree 34 was also known as unification...

The Nigerian economy, prior to the advent petro-dollar (oil boom) years of the 1970s was basically agricultural based. Agriculture contributed about 65 per cent to the GDP and represented 70 per cent of total exports. The sector was marked...

Over the week my friend Ohonusi Samuel shared the story for which forms my admonition for this week...he tells a narrative about his friend...I have made a few additions. My CEO friend, runs a successful Nigerian mining concern, operates a...

The media have been awash with the budget padding in the lower chambers of the national assembly. Is budget padding a novelty in Nigeria? And lo, the statesman, Obasanjo is vindicated once again. For more than once, former president,...