Opinion

I have just returned as leader of a small Nigerian-American delegation, from a 2 week tour of Nigeria, on behalf of the NIGERIAN-AMERICAN LEADERSHIP COUNCIL (NAL COUNCIL WEB: WWW.NALCOUNCIL.ORG). This trip afforded the Nigerian-American community to get a no holds-barred...

Nigerians are stunned to the bones about the near three-years of political genocide in River state. Port Harcourt, the once boisterous Garden City and commercial hub of the Niger Delta has been magically transformed into a nightmarish killing field...

Despite partisan considerations, Nigerians have a unanimous consensus about the dreadful magnitude of youth unemployment ravaging the country. It is Nigeria’s biggest threat next to corruption.  Corruption rather founds and nourishes the other aspects of the problems faced by...

An open letter to the people of the world: I was four when the 9/11 terrorist attacks happened, effectively meaning that I grew up in a country full of fear, anger, and resentment towards Muslim people. The Iraq and Afghanistan...

How big do multibillion naira businesses have to be before they start generating their electricity and foreign/hard cash? They must stop depending and blaming our unresponsive governments they control. Generate your foreign money like poor students, entertainers, sports figures....

Nigeria’s political discourse is stuck, rather tragically, in a familiar binary pattern. On one side, there are the bashers of President Muhammadu Buhari; on the other, those who feel duty bound to defend the man at all cost. Between...

A fierce battle is going on in Nigeria today between the Agents of Change and the Agents for the maintenance of status quo. It is one of the worst battles I have witnessed ever in Nigeria in recent times....

It appears that by predestination, two Nigerians, both of them reputable journalists, former editors of national titles, former managing directors, and even former presidents of the influential Nigerian Guild of Editors were brought together to work for President Muhammad...

James Carville, the American political strategist coined the phrase “The economy, stupid” as one of the three messages to be used as sound bites in Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign against George H.W. Bush. The other two were...

If I were offered the position of the Minister of State for Petroleum at the time the current occupant, Dr Ibe Kachikwu got the job, there is almost a guarantee that I would have found a non-offensive way of...