Opinion

The inspiration for this reflection is a robust conversation I had with someone regarding my last week’s column. A sub theme in the column was on ‘Buhari should look into allegations of northernisation policy’. My friend, let’s call him...

There is a reason why countries like the United States and United Kingdom maintain bicameral legislatures. While some might argue that the US is so large and will want equal and qualitative representations for its citizens, that argument may...

There is hardly any Nigerian who is not in a state of despair right now. Since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president last year, despondency has enveloped the nation. Disappointment makes the misery worse. In the build-up to the...

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been steadily deteriorating, making the prospect of reaching an agreement on the basis of a two-state solution ever more intractable.  What is sorely lacking is effective opposition parties that could present an alternative to Netanyahu’s...

I was driving through the Central Business District in Abuja when it struck me that those concrete eyesores used to fence off many key institutions in the city have been removed and roads that were once barricaded as a...

When a governor decides to use expected dividend earnings of his State as collateral security for borrowing as in the case of the N9b Zenith Bank loan secured with Rivers State Government expected dividend from Indorama Petrochemical Company, then...

The choice of Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN as the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is already confronting President Buhari’s party’s ideology and promises of free and fair elections. Presently, there exist many petitions both local and...

It is a common knowledge that the focus of government in the past one year of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration has been to drastically reduce, if not eliminate, economic malpractices popularly known as corruption, which has been wrecking...

"I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.            I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’- (Isaiah 46:10). Turbulence defines the path...

Nigeria is indeed a complex country with well over 350 ethnic groups straddling the 37 states including the federal capital territory. It is not an easy task governing a country like Nigeria. This is where I empathize with President...