Opinion

It is self evident from the interview which ex President Olusegun Obasanjo granted _Premium Times, _one of Nigeria’s most investigative online newspapers, that all is not well between the elder statesman and the well known controversial contractor, Chief Emeka...

Chibok Village. Chibok Village, located about 60 kilometers from Sambisa Forest is the Headquarters of Chibok Local Government Area in Borno State. It is amongst the most deprived Local Government Areas in Borno State. The best roads in...

Buhari has achieved in his first 100 days what GEJ did not achieve in 6 years. Forget about whatever controversy was generated by a purported denial of a PMB 1st 100 days in office election season document by Garba...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, African statesman, President Julius Kambarage Nyerere of Tanzania strongly advocated what he called “Nation building” for fragile post-Colonial African states. The fragility of these states soon became obvious and was exposed in...

I was at the one-day roundtable organised by my organisation, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, on oil and gas reforms. I was there as what you might term an insider. The reason for organising that...

Fellow Nigerians, on Monday - 1st of September, the media was awashed with an alarm raised by the Ondo State Government over what it described as "concluded plans by enemies of the state, to embark on character assassination, outright falsehood and...

President Muhammadu Buhari has started the Nigeria nation on the fast track of political declivity – through the trails of national disunity and possible disharmony.   With his lopsided appointments Northern domination – Hausa/Fulani; Western – Yourba and South – South...

Amazingly, of all people and things, Godswill Akpabio, a former Governor to the State of Akwa Ibom, who is now the Senate Minority Leader while in a convoy, his jeep reportedly ran the traffic light, hitting the vehicle of...

The agitation for Biafra as a country – the Igbo nation, which was initiated at the advent of Nigeria’s independence and which culminated to the civil war between 1967 and 1970, should have become a bygone issue. The negative...

President Muhammadu Buhari has yet to outline the direction and goals of his economic policy. Even so, major players in the country’s economy are already feeling the impact of specific policy decisions as they are emerging. For a wide...