Opinion

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,...

One other outcome of our democratic experience since 1999 is how demanding and insatiable the Nigerian voter has become, and because political office holders and the professional political class are yet to fully decipher and understand the implications of...

Two years into the Buhari presidency, presidential and cabinet officials, including the president himself, are still gives excuses and blaming the previous government and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) for their woes and inability to deliver on the many...

Separatist leader, if he can be genuinely called that, Nnamdi Kanu is finally begging for negotiations when he has, with the other elements he successfully brainwashed, failed in the sustained efforts at inflicting immeasurable damage to the country. Kanu’s...