Opinion

I was at the burial of an auntie in Okija, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State, on Tuesday, February 2, 2016, when Joseph Asike, on a leave of absence at Government House in Awka from Howard University in...

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. SOCRATES Propaganda, which is nothing more than just a slogan directed at the adversary, missed up as fact when in reality it is purely and simply an unproven opinion...

At the end of the Second World War, with much of Europe in ruins and struggling to cope with the aftermath of six years of conflict, under the Marshall Plan of 1948 America gave $13 billion dollars to Western...

I read last night the proposal of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing to take advantage of the N5trillion Pension fund for the purpose of investing in the power sector and this informed my decision to share my...

Two recent conversations reminded me of the extent to which the lives of “ordinary” Nigerians—that is to say, most Nigerians—have been gravely debased. Let’s start with the more recent. Last Saturday, I made a routine phone call to a relative...

To expect The Nation Newspapers owned by the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to be objective in matters concerning Rivers State, is tantamount to expecting a cockroach to get justice in a court presided over by...

The 18th Inspector General of Police, Solomon Ehigiator Arase, the number one cop in Africa and chief law enforcer of Nigeria, needs no introduction; a man who on ascending the mantle of leadership in the Police Force, has become...

At an oil and gas reforms workshop which took place in Abuja in August 2015, I had the privilege of listening to as many scholars and stakeholders in the industry as possible. Everyone had something useful to say, against...

The 2016 budget of Ondo State which is the seventh in the series of the state’s Budget of a ‘Caring Heart’ under the leadership of Governor Olusegun Mimiko, has, as usual, attracted comments and analysis by experts and political...

Nigeria Should Resist Borrowing From IMF or World Bank and Other Financial Institutions. President Muhammadu Buhari is roaming the world capitals cap-in-hand begging for loans to help fight Boko Haram and to fight corruption. And every once in a while...