Opinion

In just two decades, primary school enrolment in two of the world’s poorest countries — Niger and Burkina Faso — increased from 20% to more than 60%. Despite this encouraging trend, both countries are rated as having failed to...

When President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Dr. Ibe Kachikwu immediately after assumption of office on May 29, 2015 as the Group Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer (GMD/CEO) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), it bemused many Nigerians. Those more...

Bureau De Change round tripping is far worse than monkey dey work baboon dey chop. They represent the rich and powerful taking advantage of Peoples Foreign Reserve. Praises must first and foremost be given to hard working men, women...

Nigeria threw a shot against Apathied South Africa when it boycotted a commonwealth game in 1978 to register anger against the race-based segregation. Nigeria repeated same feat in 1986, this time, leading 32 out of 59 commonwealth countries in...

My criticisms of the excesses of the online phenomenon in terms of its brazen abuse in an unregulated environment has often made me the target of attacks, with many insisting on quoting the opening paragraph of a piece I...

Blackman’s story is always a big story! His ways (mannerisms and actions) are wonderments to Mother Nature!! The outcomes of his different manifestations are indeed awesome!!! (to other cultures and sub-cultures of the different parts of the world—Caucasian, Mongoloid,...

It is usually tough explaining the intricacies of the business and politics of oil to everyday folks. For instance, people outside some major cities still have to buy petrol above the N87 belt announced by the Minister of State...

As a keen observer and commentator on Nigeria's politics, one is at a loss to understand the reasons, though not yet communicated on how the Supreme Court arrived at its judgement which upheld the electoral victory of Governor Nyesom...

By Wednesday, April 1, 2015 when Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the March 2015 presidential elections, the rainy season was already here with us. And...

Professor Ali Mazurui wrote it all in his seminal work titled: “The African Bigman”. And by this, I think he meant to refer to those Africans who inherited the elite dynamics and dialectics of the departing Colonial Masters, and...