Opinion

This is really exciting time in America; watching the drama of the 2016 Presidential nomination process from a distance, I find the contests, the debates, the arguments, the hustling and jostling on both sides of the mainstream political aisle,...

It’s an indisputable fact that corruption is a social malaise that has impeded the growth and development of the Nigerian state in a manner that cannot be quantified for years immemorial and it was the realization of this debilitating...

African-American life in the last fifty years can be signposted by seven events which bring to fore, the struggles of a people. The first is the February 21, 1965 assassination of Malcolm X  who advocated black self-defense, economic empowerment and consciousness. The...

So much has been said and written lately about the National Public Security Communication System (NPSCS) which most Nigerians erroneously referred to as the “Lagos, Abuja CCTV Project”.  Initiated in 2008 by the Late President Umar Yar ‘Adua, the...

Nigeria has long been drawn into the Western ways of life—indeed, into the capitalist mode of economy (but without its Welfarist safety-nets). Her productive and consumptive pattern overwhelmingly mimics European and American lifestyles. Also, it is a well known...

Since the last eight months the incidents of inter ethnic conflicts have widened and the regularity has assumed such a frenetic status that a stranger visiting Nigeria would assume that Nigerians are waging silent internecine wars of tribes against...

After the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence passed on Rev. Chukwuemeka Ezeugo (aka Rev King), the General Overseer of Christian Praying Assembly, the Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN) was quick to call on the Federal Government of...

When British philosopher and social critic‎, Bertrand Russell opined that, "Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure", ‎he must have had characters like Iyiola Oyedepo on mind. It is instructive to note that, Iyiola, the author...

Africa has been described time and again, as the 'creator of mankind'. For those of you who have been to Africa and those of you who have not, its one of the most beautiful, resource-rich and fascinating regions of...

Right now a big black ominous cloud hangs over Nigeria as its vast population of over 160 million is slowly being decimated by murders, ritual killings and spiritual enslavement of people’s souls. Only a couple of weeks ago I was...