Opinion

Without prejudice to the commitment and efforts of President Muhammadu Buhari and many patriotic Nigerians to stamping out corruption from the country, we will one day discover to our greatest dismay that there is another potent problem whose danger...

“IF YOU STEAL, DO NOT STEAL TOO MUCH AT A TIME: YOU MAY BE ARRESTED. STEAL LITTLE BY LITTLE.” – Mobutu Sese Seko to Ministers/party Delegates, 1971. I begin this piece with a question: Is every chief a thief? I...

The African Union (AU)   26th Session which closed  in Addis Ababa on January 31, held a lot of promise for a continent brought to its knees by insecurity and violence; some  of it self-inflicted.  The expectations were high and the organisation’s leaders were on...

How can small businesses make profit or create jobs in countries with loan interest rate around twenty percent? When it is about high-risk business and individuals, bank may justify such outrageous lending rate to cover their high probability loss....

I don’t know who authored the latest round of Nigeria’s leaders and their relationship with the pump prices of petrol. Most of our leaders hiked fuel price. President Muhammadu Buhari left it constant at 20 kobo to the litre...

MARTINS SCHULTZ, the President of the European Parliament minced no words in describing why Europe is enamored of our President, Muahmmadu Buhari, so much as to give him the honor of addressing the continent's  legislative arm. The big endorsement President Buhari...

Southwest is gradually caving in to political conquistadors. Many of our politicians are now acting like vassals to a resurgent powerful political Mafia. This group had once faded into oblivion; but it is now back, controlling the agenda of...

The basic needs of one citizen are the basic needs of every citizen (no matter their status in society). The most important word is: Basic! And added to it is: Needs!! Heretofore, the basic needs of Man (every person) are:...

In my previous opinion on this topic published in the SUN of 2nd February, 2016 and elsewhere, I hinged my guarded analysis on the limited information available when this judgment broke on January 29, 2016. After publication of my...

The December 2015 killing of members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMV) better known as Shi’ite in Zaria, Kaduna State drew international condemnation and rightly so. Human life is sacred so the condemnation that trailed the killings during...