Opinion

We’re told that the appellation of “Wailing wailers” is befitting of sympathisers, supporters or anyone remotely/directly associated with the opposition party in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). However, in actual fact, the person for whom this title is most...

“Did they send you your own share of the bush meat?” “Bush meat?” “The lion in the zoo that became bush meat in Jos” “What’s my own inside? I don’t know any zoo worker in Jos and how could a lion that...

Caveat: Another long piece, avoid it if you're not a patient reader Those whom the gods have decided to kill or punish they first make them mad, they make them inarticulate and sometimes, incomprehensible. This is the present situation in...

Following the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to his newly inaugurated cabinet ministers to immediately hit the ground running, one man who has undoubtedly walked the talk is the Minister of Interior, Lieutenant General Abdurrahman Bellow Dambazau Rtd. Upon assumption...

Nigeria will on December 10th 2015 join the rest of mankind to mark half a century since the United Nations General Assembly adopted two international treaties that would forever shape international human rights: The INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC SOCIAL...

Protocol: The commitment and resolve of the 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to work with and support the Executive arm in its effort to improve the life of our people is not negotiable. We are together with the...

Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole is a popular name known to the poor and indigent in the country. This is consequent on his popularity when he was President of the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC). Oshiomhole came to limelight when as a labour...

“Hopefully, someday we will get tired of this attitude of voting people out and start focusing on voting people in” – Ayodele Sogunro One of the identified problems militating against our development as a country is not just the absence of...

I have read, first with discomfort, and then with something akin to horror, the words that have been attributed to my dear governor, Adams Oshiomhole. I call him “my dear governor” for two reasons; first, I am indigene of...

I have long maintained that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank defies the moral principle behind the creation of the state. Contrary to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s assertion, the occupation erodes rather than buttresses Israel’s national security and cannot be...