Opinion

After been away from my second home for four years to study abroad, I visited Maiduguri in July 2014 for a week and decided to see a friend of mine at Bulumkutu Abuja. As soon as it was time...

Junaid Mohammed may be the closest thing Nigerians have to a bipartisan gadfly, an equal opportunity traducer of the country’s rulers. A legislator in the Second Republic, Junaid was a frequent thorn on the side of former President Goodluck...

Recently two states, Osun and Lagos, in South West Nigeria have been embroiled in a dispute over the Islamic veil, and as usual a tensed atmosphere has pervaded in the region as judges and politicians scramble to appease or...

No matter what hardship Nigerians may face presently, what must be acknowledged is that the days that Boko Haram fighters operated as a parallel state to Nigeria is over. This feat of containing the insurgent depended largely on the...

There are people whose lives may read like fiction. In a world built on material considerations and self- interest, it is difficult to come across people who are not engaged in the rat race, live selfless lives and are...

I would like to commence this intervention with the very cryptic statement by President Muhammadu Buhari at the opening ceremony of the 55th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA on August 21,2015 where Mr. President urged...

Hurrying up from a visit to Oxford Circuit from my brief window shopping tour of the imposing Westfield Shopping Complex in Stratford London, I chanced upon a free evening newspaper in the underground train station which attracted my  attention...

Conservative parties, be they called the Tory Party, or Republican Party, or Likud Party, have for the most part of the early 20th century to present advocated policies that seemed unreasonable but the world continued to vote them into...

Government policies in Nigeria are rarely informed by rigorous research. More often than not, it does appear that planning is done amid the near absence of hard facts. This aversion for information-based planning partly explains why most incumbent governments...

The suspected cache of sleaze prevalent in the military between 2007- 2015 on the pretext of fighting Boko Haram provoked the setting up of a 13 man committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement (CADEP) in the Nigerian Armed...