Opinion

Following the high level of corruption of the past government, the current government made fighting corruption a campaign theme. Just last week the government released figures of over N2 trillion recovered from institutions and people allegedly connected to corruption....

The recent news that President Buhari has taken ill and travelled to England to treat a discomforting left ear infection called Meniere Disease has brought to the fore the compassionate side of Nigerians. After the story, first reported by...

The recent news that the federal government has scrapped the post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME) test is very cheering news. There had been several complains about the conduct of many universities in the organization of these exams.  Many...

I’m deeply troubled by what appears to me to be Nigeria’s growing industry of making and exhibiting corpses. The Nigerian state—represented by its police and military—continues to refine its capacity for the production of corpses. It’s as if, by...

Following the 2016 US presidential elections, the next administration must adopt a new and realistically balanced policy toward Israel and the Palestinians to bring an end to their conflict in the context of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace based on...

The media recently reported that a non-government organisation (NGO), Campaign for Judicial Integrity, has written a petition to the National Judicial Council (NJC) over an order by Justice Anuli Chikere of the Federal High Court over the impending election...

The history of sexual harassment dates back to the pre-colonial era when women were accorded little or no rights whatsoever - they were often married out against their wish, sacrificed as virgins or married to deities where they became...

I penned a piece titled “A Doomed People” published in SaharaReporters, October 11, 2012 on the riveting butchery of four students of University of Port Harcourt, in Aluu three kilometers from the main campus of the university on Friday,...

The month of May ended without any credit alerts for Bayelsa State Government workers, even after Governor Henry Seriake Dickson and the State Chapters of the Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) had agreed weeks earlier...

I visited Vienna, Austria some years ago. After five days of going round the city, it occurred to me that I had not come across a single policeman. Yet everything seemed orderly including traffic. I raised my observation with...