Opinion

 “The servicing and defense of the weakening naira with country’s accumulated foreign reserve is not sustainable with shrinking foreign reserve.” -  Emeka Chiakwelu, Policy Strategist at AFRIPOL The state and wellbeing of Nigeria’s economy is gradually but steadily losing its...

President Buhari’s recent trip to Malta to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) has renewed once more the debate about the value of the Commonwealth to the country. I think the renewed debate builds on certain criticisms...

It is one of the great realities of Nigerian politics that although political capital and industrial and economic power reside in the urban centers, the grounds from which these all important resources stream are to be traced to the...

Prince Abubakar Audu stood on the verge of history. He had been twice governor of Kogi State, and the electoral results showed that he would be elected a third time. Everything seemed in his favour; poll results, the mood...

The month of November has been a busy but eventful one in the Nigerian Senate. Lots of Bills were presented and a few other motions passed. Out of all the Bills presented, a number of them also passed for...

In 2003 the Nigerian legislators whose global reputation was then very notorious for being some of the most overpaid political office holders Worldwide did the unthinkable -they passed a national law that guarantees the human rights of Children. Few...

I have heard different stories about people who lost their phones either by their own carelessness or by no fault of theirs. I too have lost my phone once, but the focus will be on ways to checkmate re-use...

This title came about during a discussion I had with my friend, Daniel Lawal very recently. We were talking about how the countries of the world go about distributing its resources among its citizenry. We talked about everything from...

President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Paris, France twenty four clear hours before the commencement of the Paris climate conference which runs till December 11th, 2015. The COP21 (as it's technically called) summit which reportedly involves nearly 200 nations, is intended to produce...

Election rigging has been an accepted practice in the voting process in Nigeria and does not change the status of the winner unless they can be seen as proven guilty in courts of law. Usually, a lengthy process that...