Opinion

The Nigerian economy has for many years heavily depended on oil resource extracted from the Niger Delta region. Before the oil price shocks, about 80% of the nation’s total revenue earnings and 90% of her export earnings come from...

The Police force is the physical embodiment of a representative government, the closest manifestation of democracy to the people. It is not farfetched to describe the police force as the face of a government. The state of the police...

Suddenly, things seem to be turning around for Chief James Onanefe Ibori. There is a frenzy of writings in FACEBOOK about his release date; some of the postings actually say he has already been released and will be in...

The insidious greed and public looting that Nigerian judiciary has nurtured to an art form is metastasizing like a virulent tumor strain throughout the legal profession. It is sheer suicidal absurdity for the Body of Senior Advocates of Nigeria...

President Buhari on Monday said that PDP failed to plan for Nigeria’s raining day. The president asserted that the 16 years of PDP’s rule had little to show for the high revenue from oil during the period. The President said, “In...

Winning an election is not usually a matter of commonsense, in the Nigerian context. It is usually about how much money a candidate has amassed, or how much a godfather is prepared to deploy on behalf of a political...

The FULANI ethnic nationality is a unique brand of people in the sense that they are perpetually nomadic. The nomadic nature of these people has made it impossible to precisely pin them down to any specific geo-political locale but for...

Before now, several issues bore negative testimonies on Abia (God's Own State), especially Aba, the state's commercial heartbeat. The refuse situation in Aba got to a point that one celebrated columnist, who later became a member of the lower...

One of the first lessons I was taught in primary school was ‘the ingredients of good water’. We were taught that good water  must be clean, colourless, odourless and  tasteless. The best example of good water, was the public  tap water. We...

When you wrestle with a pig, the pig gets happy and you get dirty.-Babatunde Fashola(SAN) The March 19th re-run elections in Rivers State seem to have opened a paradox of commentaries. Some of them have focused on the wider issues...