Opinion

The reactions that have trailed the decision by the Buhari government to subsidize this year’s Hajj, despite the fact that the Nigerian economy is in recession, underscores the necessity of separating church (mosque) and state. Last year, President Buhari...

The legislation, "a Bill for a Law to substitute the Kaduna State Religious Preaching Law, 1984" (the 1984 Edict) or simply known as the Kaduna state Religious Activities Regulation Bill is still in the making but it has never...

The  basic criterion for working in Nigeria is to either be  a miracle worker or magician. The monthly Minimum Wage  is N18,000; that is $45 or  $1.5 daily.  From this monthly salary - the equivalent of a bag of...

Ghost worker syndrome in Nigeria predates the second republic. Every government has desired to resolve this caterpillar and cankerworm ravaging the public service without success.  Several committees were set up in the past to end the ugly trend but...

Come August 17, 2016, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the most popular and most populous political party in Africa, would be holding its national convention where it is expected that a new set of the party’s national working committee...

This week, my admonition would be on the recurring subject of corruption in Nigeria...without sounding repetitive like the proverbial broken record, I would look at it from a nation's inability and refusal to take responsibility. For starters, let me...

While preparing for the Universities Matriculations Examinations (UME) (now known as the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations) in 2005, I came across one new “fact” reading the book A Course Text on Government by Oghenekaro Ogbinaka. I learnt that the...

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.” - Albert Einstein And surely so should China, Libya's neighbour Malta, and most other European countries who have now realised how stupidly...

Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and their ilk have been sending feint to Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State over a supposedly trip to the United States of America, USA, by the wife of Major...

Fellow Nigerians, I don’t know any country in the world that is so mercilessly looted like Nigeria. Sometimes I wonder how poor Nigeria has managed to survive despite the Unceasing bleeding of the most populous black nation in the...