Opinion

"Facts are stubborn things..." John Adams So, this week, I will draw my admonition from an essay I wrote some four years ago,  I had at that period asked was Nigeria worth dying for? Today I rephrase the same question,...

Going through the piece with the caption” Judiciary on Trial again”, written by Mr. Amanze Obi and published here, what came to my mind was the famous statement by Martin Luther King Jnr. That “Nothing in the whole world...

I have read the judgement of the learned justices of the Appeal Court and can confirm that it is flawless. But the rented protesters, including those who contracted them, hadn’t read a line of the judgement they were protesting. One...

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the...

The story of Tambuwal is the story of courage and resilience. His enviable impacts and indelible reputation as Speaker of Federal House of Representatives in the defunct 7th Assembly truly showed that our democracy has come of age with...

The 2016 Gregorian year started on a very special day, Friday, with very high expectations by Nigerians of all walks of life. For the first time in a few decades of the nation’s history, every citizen is feeling belonging to...

I was on my way back from Botswana, after attending a conference organized by the Africa Leadership Forum (ALF). This was sometime in the 90s, on that same trip was Professor Tekena Tamuno, the eminent historian of blessed memory....

Christine Lagarde, the Managing Director of the IMF recently visited Nigeria. The last time the global financial intervention agency, IMF beamed its gaze on Nigeria (1985-6), was to convince government to embark on financial reforms including devaluation of the naira. I...

“What a relief, my friend!” “What are you relieved about?” “It is this David Adeleke and Sophia Momodu soap opera”. “I tell you. It is a perfect subject for a good home video. But what is your own?” “No. Nothing. I am just...

Gentlemen of the media, we thank you for living up to your constitutional bidding as the national conscience and the voice of the oppressed but politically persecuted citizens but the media must step up her investigative role as envisaged...