Opinion

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...

Elder Statesman, Chief Bisi Akande was Executive Governor of Osun State for four years from 1999 during which he led his colleagues who were unwilling to pay workers the National Minimum Wage. I was then in the Nigeria Labour...

After PDP's fall from glory as Nigeria's ruling party on March 28th 2015, following an embarrassing defeat at the presidential election, Olisa Metuh, the party's spokesperson became not only the mouthpiece but also the symbol of the party. Metuh, pugnacious...

Your Excellency Sir, best wishes to you and the good people of Edo State. “Let the people lead”, one of your many slogans in a bid to promote fairness and transparency in governance supports the train of thought that incites...

The quote, "I have proven to Nigerians that my political ambition is not worth anyone's blood" by Good luck Jonathan on every appearance and even on the lips of his crass supporters has lost touch with the present realities. The...

By now Nigerians, those eager for change among us, should have realised that they made one mistake about their assumption about how the anti-corruption fight would go under President Muhammadu Buhari. The assumption had been that corruption would be...

Richard V. Reeves writing for 'The Brookings Essay' talks about saving Horatio Alger, Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream. The first few paragraphs got me thinking... On a warm spring evening in Washington, D.C., a fleet of limousines and town...

A former parliamentary secretary of state in the German ministry of foreign Affairs and an erstwhile Commissioner of the European Commission RALF DAHRENDORF wrote that _“the life and death of democracy is an unusual and extraordinary magnum opus by...