Opinion

Erstwhile National Chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Chief Victor Umeh was set to have a smooth ride to victory in the Anambra Central rerun election earlier scheduled to hold on March 5, 2016, before the sudden indefinite...

IF THERE’S ONE THING most Nigerians can agree on, it’s that this National Assembly has become an ineffective  cataclysm, frozen in partisan and egotistic politics  and a stumbling block to socioeconomic development. The ongoing friction between the  executive and legislative...

Though Bukola Abiku Mesujamba Saraki has men to guard him, he's afraid to close his eyes at night lest he'll be overtaken. Some days are worse than others. Last Friday was the worst. How he longs for a miracle...

I apologize for my tardiness in getting to this topic although I have written periodically on the menace of cattle farmers south of Kaduna and all the way to Lagos and Port Harcourt/Calabar. The most important function of ANY GOVERNMENT...

In a story authored by Con Coughlin, the Defence Editor of the UK Telegraph, in the same newspaper on April 12, 2016, titled “Nigeria using UK aid to persecute president's political foes rather to fight Boko Haram” it was...

In Riverine communities, nobody owns the fishes in the river. It's different from the farm where you can own some part and use it alone. Everything in the river is communally owned.   So anyone who gets hungry goes to the...

In spite of current economic difficulties which is making millions of Nigerians worried and unhappy, an important development is unfolding which in the long run, would lay the foundation of prosperity and national development in Nigeria.   This development is no...

“A WISE MAN CAN PLAY THE ROLE OF A CLOWN, BUT A CLOWN CANNOT PLAY THE ROLE OF A WISE MAN” –_Malcolm X_   I thought I had seen and said all when almost a year ago, I did a psycho-analysis...

A couple of years ago, Nigerian economy was growing at between 6-7%, GDP rate. This was probably due to the fact that crude oil/gas, Nigeria's main export earner, attracting 90% of foreign exchange, FX income and which constitutes about...

Five months have passed since the infamous and controversial inconclusive Kogi governorship election, yet the cracks that emerged on the Kogi political sphere are far from being mended. While the Election Tribunal is busy hearing the cases of dissatisfied...