Opinion

Everyone who puts pen to paper, who deigns to call himself a writer must first be a lover of knowledge. When all is said and done, what you write should be an outpouring of what you have learnt to...

Nigeria’s first speed train rolled off on July 26  in a roar of controversy. The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) held it up as its  achievement. Its vociferous hailers  claimed that it was  completed due to the seriousness of...

The propriety or otherwise of immunity for the leadership of National and State Assembly's leaderships has sharply divided Nigerians. The weight of public opinion has exclusively reserved immunity for only the executive arm of government. Some premised their reasons...

The few of us that live in gross opulence and luxury within each African country where most people suffer in squalor have no conscience unless we give some back. When growing up, we celebrated with the rich for their...

Dear Mr. President, First of all I would like to congratulate you on the recent academicachievements recorded by your children. It is the wish of every father to witness such event in one’s lifetime. Mr. President, before I go into details...

In the many years of my journalism practice, I have held on to the natural opium of justice by fairness. Even the holy books enjoin us to dig into the truth and hold it tenaciously. Therefore, when journalism came...

Each time I listen to my State Commissioner of Information and Communication, Mr. Austin Tam-George speak on any issue of state concern, I wonder with due respect what the Governor's considerations were for assigning this particular portfolio to Mr....

It beggars belief that our elected representatives at the National Assembly who were elected for the purpose of representing and making laws that will be of beneficial to their various constituencies have abandoned the sole purpose of representation of...

Not many paid attention when I wrote the first part of this article probably because it didn't strike any sentimental cord. If I had chosen outright bashing of the National Assembly or it principal officers, it would have received...

One of the most recent additions to the seeming endless lists of dictions in Nigerian political dictionary is “Budget padding”. A friend of mine on Facebook posted a joke about some ladies who “pad” their bodies just to look...