Opinion

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...

Decision is one of the chief characteristics of leadership which comes with it, reward, consequences and in most cases unintended consequences. According to General George S. Patton, “being willing to make decision is the most important quality in a...

I received an email recently from one Mr. Sam C. Okudah, containing an attached document replying my article, IGBOS AND THE BUHARI’S GOVERNMENT. With the manner the document was sent, one would have thought it was just a private...

June 9, 2015 will forever go down in our country’s legislative history as a day to be remembered. The 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria took off with Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, the Senator representing Kwara Central,...

One’s first reaction on reading some newspaper headlines out of Nigeria is one of incredulity. It simply can’t be true, one declares. Such was my reaction last week when I saw a report in the Guardian newspaper. The report, written...

Palestinian lawyer Mohammed Allan, who went on hunger strike for 65 days to protest his indefinite detention in Israeli custody, was subsequently moved into medical care and had his detention suspended in August over fears that he might die...

It is more than one week now since Premium Times carried a very shocking story in which the Katsina State Governor and one of the leading lights of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Aminu Bello Masari, was accused of brazenly deploying...

As a Political Scientist, many people have asked me why my people: The Igbos, massively voted for The PDP (and President Goodluck Jonathan). Friends, and those who appreciate my Political Thoughts (I won the best student awards on them...

President Muhammadu Bahuari (PMB) was elected and inaugurated as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on 29 May, 2019. By 7 September, 2015, he had clocked the milestone of one hundred days in office. All over the world,...

Like every other electoral process in Nigeria, so much bad blood has been deliberately channeled to discolor Governor Dickson Seriake’s re-election campaign. It’s about everything, but about nothing. The new singsong is about change and it is evidently clear...