Opinion

As far as we Africans are concerned, there’s no reason why a man who has had a wife and children would ever want to be a woman. Such thoughts would only exist in the fertile imaginations of an African...

Original English Language Speakers may have several semantic relationships with most of us who are indigenous Africans especially here in Nigeria especially in terms of similarity in proverbs and idiomatic expressions. The English have a particular saying that 'there is...

Loyalty is a key ingredient in power. It is an ingredient that requires believers in a cause, institution or person to stay true to the cause at all times by thinking, talking, walking and working for the realisation and...

After all the drama characterising the screening of those who are to work with President Muhammadu Buhari as ministers, the Nigerian senate in performing its constitutionally-assigned duty cleared all those nominated. Though, legally speaking, we might conclude it is...

The Egyptians we see in Imo state, we shall see them no more because the Moses of our time, the Field Marshal of Ndi Imo, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha,  who led other troops and rescued Nigeria from 16 years...

INTRODUCTION Over the years, several scholars, development workers, activists, politicians, international organizations, public affairs commentators and the general public have given attention to the problem of corruption and its attendant effects on society. The problem is not new to humankind...

Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with a young man who accused me of exhibiting “sentiments” and “self-interest” in my column titled “Buhari and the Syndrome of Sameness”. After I repeatedly challenged the guy to...

The Screening of Ministerial Nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the upper chamber of the National Assembly has come and gone but therein lies important lessons we must carry away from the entire process. The names of the...

The Presidency in its rejoinder to a recent statement by the PDP upbraided its spokesman Mr. Olisa Metuh for “unjustly denigrating the President who continues to strive with all his might to alleviate and reverse the harm done to...

There is something unique about the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP that confounds. And this has to do with the former ruling party’s inability to be remorseful and penitent even in the face of failure and defeat. For more than 16...