Opinion

It was Emile Durkheim, the French sociologist and philosopher who coined the term ‘anomie’ to refer to a situation where the conditions for happiness are absent. Our own Wole Soyinka was to further popularize the word in his second...

A peculiarly Nigerian type of frenzy happened last week. The event was triggered by a report that a young woman named Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the more than 200 Chibok schoolgirls abducted the night of April 14, 2014,...

Aliko Dangote, the President of Dangote Group, is one of the rare breed of industrialists who commands my respect. And it isn’t because he vaulted into the number one position as Africa’s richest man. Rather, my approval is a recognition...

When is Ibrahim Magu and his team in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) coming to Kwara State? And when I said Kwara State, I didn't mean the Gov. Abdulfatah Ahmed-led administration that already has a clean bill...

One of the major news items in circulation has been the scarcity of tomato. Incidentally, Nigeria is (was) the 14th largest producer of tomato in the world and the second largest producer in Africa, after Egypt, but our country...

The position of the Rational Choice Theory (RCT) of crime is that persons intentionally choose to commit crimes as opposed to being compelled by external factors or influences, and the reason that they choose to commit crime is that...

Many who wonder why do I need to go so low to respond to people of this kind but I am sorry to have disappointed my fans and friends. Some guys are just mind provoking as they have turned...

The Buhari administration has been accused severally of being slow, many even say it is overwhelmed by the problems on ground. Whereas I will agree that the magnitude of problems left behind by the past administration is indeed enormous,...

Let me disclose from the outset that Nze Chidi Duru is my friend. I met him for the first time sometime in 1999 through a mutual friend who is now late, Tony Anyanwu, who represented my Federal Constituency, Ahiazu-Ezinihitte Mbaise,...

Since the creation of Ogun State some forty years ago, the people of Ogun West Senatorial district have not had the opportunity of occupying the governorship seat. The closest was Alhaja Salimot Badru who was the Deputy Governor of...