Opinion

Presidents, the world over, are known to rely on the services and friendship of dependable allies, party members and even family members outside the defined and regular cabinet appointees throughout their tenure. It does not matter whether that president...

The use of violence to end the occupation has not served the Palestinian cause well, instead making matters worse as it hardened the resolve of successive Israeli governments to deal with violent extremism with an iron fist. The current...

This reflection was inspired by a report in the Daily Post of January 11 2016 where Pastor Tunde Bakare, founder of the Latter Rain Assembly was reported as urging President Muhammadu Buhari to implement the recommendations of the 2014...

Many of those faulting the way and manner the anti-corruption crusade is being prosecuted under President Muhammadu Buhari are guilty of approaching the issue from sentimental perspective. True. The fight has shown a high degree of one sidedness, mostly...

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.” - Benjamin Franklin. The ancient city of Zaria was recently in the news for a wrong reason. On December, 12 the city witnessed...

Most people think there is only one market at Oshodi in Lagos and this market was in the first week of January, 2016, demolished by the Lagos State government. There are actually more markets in this ever bustling place,...

Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu became an internally recognized activist in the 1980’s for his strong opposing views against the oppressive era of apartheid in South Africa. Born in Klerksdorp , Transvaal , South Africa, he was the first black...

The Bible tells of an encounter that Jesus had with a lynch mob. The mob had stones in their hands ready to stone to death, as the law stipulates, a woman accused of committing adultery. Jesus said to the...

“The days of our lives are three score years and ten-or even, if by reason of strength four score “-Psalm 90.10. What further evidence or validation of the Almighty’s mercy and grace upon you do we need other than that...

We once watched as this physically challenged man struggled in a motorized wheel chair to get himself into a Western Union office in order to send money to relatives in East Africa. He could not be a rich man,...