Opinion

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...

Life is all about memories. It is the only thing we are left with when flesh and spirit depart the earthly plane, and we can do no more than remember the life of the departed, through memories of times...

Last week my security gatekeeper suddenly packed his luggage with the intention of quitting his job. The reason he decided to withdraw his services and return to his country is the weakening exchange rate between the CFA franc-currency of the...

INTRODUCTION: In the last couple of months there have been strident calls for the restructuring of the country from a lot of people, from different parts of the country. While some of the calls have primordial and political undertones, a...