Opinion

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...

If you have your own resources like gold, diamond or oil that brings steady income, why gamble for leverage? Businesses have a good reason for using Other People’s Money OPM to establish and split the profit with risk takers...

The recent weeks have been tough for Nigeria and Nigerians. With the strangest of shameful news making the headlines and drawing negative attention to a nation already haemorrhaging uncontrollably from economic collapse, social decadence, brutishness of state agents and...

Three different incidents in the last week cast, poignantly, in bold relief the plight of the girl-child in Nigeria. Thanks to The Punch newspaper which launched the #FreeEse, #JusticeforEse campaign and the civil society groups that took up the...

In 1992, Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party candidate for the US presidency, popularized the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” A year earlier, then incumbent President George H. Bush—who was seeking reelection on the platform of the Republican Party—had...

Was Ese Rita Oruru now 14 abducted or did she elope with Yunusa to have their Islamic marriage consummated in Kano?  Whichever way the pendulum of varying degrees of public opinion swing, the unfortunate circumstances surrounding the entire saga...

It's not often that an African head of government is received across the developed world with pomp and popular acclaim. Of course, Africa and many of its governments are yet to cast off that seeming perennial characterisation of a...

At the invitation of the King, Salman Bin-Abdul-Aziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia and that of the Ruler of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, President Muhammadu Buhari undertook state visits to the two Middle-Eastern states between February 22nd and...