Opinion

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,...

“So, the fight is on two levels: one, directly against corruption and the second is that you are going to prepare for a counter attack. That is where we are at the moment and there is no retreat.” -...

“Sometimes people don't understand the promises they're making when they make them.”  ― John Green The Federal Government promised to generate, transmit and distribute at least 20,000 Megawatts (MW) of electricity within four years and increase it to 50,000 MW...

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director, Madam Christine Lagarde was on a four-day visit to Nigeria from January 4. She claimed it was a friendly visit: “I’m not in Nigeria to negotiate for IMF loans but to promote fiscal...

Nigerians are in the midst of a familiar feeding frenzy. On the menu this time, former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Prosecutors allege that Mr. Dasuki, a retired colonel of the Nigerian Army, took more than $2 billion that...

On December 22, 2015, The Punch published an Editorial Opinion titled ‘Fashola’s False Start on Electricity’. It left me, and I imagine others who have for decades keenly followed developments in the country’s Power Sector, confounded. The OpEd fell...

Like other belligerent groups before it, the end of Boko Haram insurgency is certain. Nigerians look forward with enthusiasm their impending doom’s day. Between technical, marginal or complete defeat of the sect, the promise made by the All Progressive...

“When one with honeyed words but evil mind Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” ― Euripides, Orestes Interestingly, it was Adolf Hitler who said “To conquer a nation, first disarm its citizens.” IBB' coup speech in 1985  " Major-General Muhammadu...