Opinion

All over the world, government is a continuum. Ideally, once the baton of leadership of a nation is handed over to a new government, the onus lie on the regime to embrace the projects, policies and programmes of the...

About three weeks ago, 27-year old Olajumoke Orisaguna was a complete unknown on the streets of Lagos, hawking bread. A loaf of bread is about N100, and even with a full tray such as she carried in her first...

Listening to Senator Dino Melaye’s blanket indictment over the Abuja Light Rail Project, one would be forgiven for concluding that the Kogi born politician is the best saint since Nigerians discovered the gospel of anti-corruption fight. Only that Senator...

“… Likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of...

In this jet age, it is difficult to tell who an African is, the standards that define an African are uneasy to define, as foreign cultures, languages, and philosophies have strongly influenced us to the extent that majority of...

There is a Yoruba adage to the effect that the world licks your hand when it is coated with honey but will never lick the same hand when itis dripping blood. It has been only a few days –...

I am quite taken aback by the linear, Naira centric thinking, patriotic blackmail attempts led by the ‘Buy Nigeria save the Naira’ crusaders and I have no love reserved for the don’t Buy Nigeria just because it’s made in...

On Monday, February 15, 2018, the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria reportedly directed the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, the National Electricity Regulatory Commission and the Distribution Companies to suspend the implementation of the new...

Mark 10:46-52 in the Bible tells of a blind man named Bartimaeus (literally "Son of Timaeus") being present as Jesus left Jericho. Matthew 20:29-34 is a similar account of two blind men being healed outside of Jericho, but gives...

Forty years ago, Brigadier General Murtala Ramat Mohammed was killed in a bloody coup. His murderers truncated his dream of having a Nigeria free of corruption. His death only threw Nigeria many decades backward. His killers succeeded in establishing...