Opinion

March 6th, 2016 was another bad day in Nigeria for road users and its nation’s leadership. Indeed, If put in candid and fearless perspective, it will remain a vital remembrance day that Nigeria citizens ought use to ask its...

Jacob Gedleyihlekisa  Zuma, President of South Africa came visiting Nigeria this week, bearing messages of hope and African renaissance.  The Zuma story is one that teaches Nigeria how to handle its citizens and the fact that human beings if given the...

How do I begin to pay this tribute to a man who was the epitome of civility, the archetype of intellectualism, and the paragon of loyalty? How do I begin to mourn James Ocholi, whom you can describe as...

The trial of Bukola Mesujamba Saraki like Abiku – a Yoruba name for a child in unending cycle of births, deaths, and rebirths – died again last Friday when Danlami Umar the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) chairman acquiesced...

National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest,...

A common saying goes thus; when one’s path is obstructed by a heap of logs which must be cleared for passage, the topmost logs must be removed first in the dislodgment process. Or, as the renowned economic historian David...

(Caveat: Another long read). Some may wonder why the question at a time when virtually everyone is dancing surugede (dance of the spirits) in Rivers State. Well, this is a narrative of Rt.Hon.Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi and the meretricious gang of...

With the garb of labour unions and stationed to guard jealously the rights of workers in the oil industry, NUPENG and PENGASSAN have tended to act like a Frankenstein monster that is no longer under the control of anybody....

The cry of the oppressed is not always the just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is— Howard Zinn. In Rivers State, the cry of the oppressed has been resonating because the garden...

Since the inception of the current administration, efforts have been made to reform the oil and gas sector in Nigeria with the restructuring on the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the repositioning of the corporation's staff for optimum...