Opinion

Climate change is unarguably the biggest environmental issue of our time. Broad scientific agreement now exists that continued accumulation of heat-trapping “greenhouse” gases in the atmosphere is contributing to changes in the global climate. Climate change is global in...

The news that charges have been filed against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal was received by many with shock. The expectation, however, was that the accused would be in haste to clear...

By now, things are already adding up and the services of a naysayer may not be needed to see the direction the Buhari led government is headed. Prior to the 2015 general election, many of my friends who were...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon can no longer save the falconer, the centre can no longer hold. - W.B Yeats. The madness that affected the immediate-past president of Nigeria that turned him into a virtual tyrant...

Certainly Boko Haram militants’ long term desire of dividing Nigeria by forming their own territory is a contradiction that will remain in their imagination and will never turn into a reality, even though nations and territories divide all the...

Saturday, September 5, was exactly 100 days since Muhammadu Buhari took the oath of office as President. His four-year term has 1,461 days and 100 days are only 6.8 per cent of it.   Though it has almost become a global...

Did you hear about the husband and the wife that got stranded on an island? Not that one. Another man finally showed up with a canoe that could only take two people. He had the only option of taking...

The persistent breach of the  section of the Nigerian Constitution by governors who have shown penchant for destroying the democratic  foundation of Local Government council administration in the country is a serious cause for worry.   The collapse of democracy at...

President Muhammadu Buhari (who wants to be seen to be presiding over all Nigerians-repeat: all Nigerians including Igbos and therefore be regarded as their president) has decided to exclude the Igbo people of the South Eastern part of Nigeria...

The trouble with Peter Obi is that he was never able to rise above the pale of ordinariness in his eight years as governor of Nigeria’s most gifted state. He lacked the colour, the charisma and the carriage that...