Opinion

I took Donald Trump for a joker when he declared his intention to run for the American Presidency. I assumed the Apprentice was bored  making deals, and wanted time out to engage in publicity stunts. I thought he would spice...

“May we never walk when the road waits, famished” – Wole Soyinka, The Road Two major road accidents in the last week brought to the fore again the dangers that lie in wait on Nigerian roads.  The Minister of State...

What constitutes a people lie in their commonly held values. The Nigerian peoples, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, etc have core values and beliefs that keep them united as a people and Nigeria has imbibed these collectives of values...

The recent ethnic/regional clashes between  some Yoruba youths and some people of northern Nigeria extraction at Mile 12, Lagos, is the latest in a series of clashes between host communities (indigenes)  and ‘settlers’ across the country. Lagos, given its...

In the short period that I have been privileged to serve as Minister of Finance, I have observed that even the most basic systems and controls over the management of our resources are in dire need of strengthening. While...

...And yet another set of BIRS staff were beaten up in Adikpo. From protest march to Government House, it has now become a street affair. Something is obviously wrong. I supported and voted Samuel Ortom to become Governor. I...

From an unpublished book I have written since the last half a decade on one of Nigeria’s most influential litigation lawyers CHIEF AFE BABALOLA (SAN) I will borrow some citations of what constitute good leadership as espoused by leading...

It is sad that the National Headquarters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, fondly called All Promises Cancelled by her diminishing disappointed supporters is unrepentant in its ungodly and demented pecuniary obsession with Rivers State. Once a failed politician...

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."  Dresden James Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of...

Democracy! They say you are the government of the people, by the people and for the people; the government that is strictly built on the rule of law and adherence to the very minute tenet of the nation’s constitution....