Opinion

There is no more potent common denominator for all sections of the Nigerian state than corruption, which is using public office or opportunity for private gains in complete disregard of relevant restraining laws. And there is wide agreement across...

We have to stop thinking of what is in there for me, myself and I: to move Africa to its potential. If it is beneficial to Africa, it also elevates you and I. But no matter how you succeed...

The pending order to demolish the small Palestinian village of Susiya in the southern Judean Mountains in the occupied West Bank represents the most blatant violation of human rights. The order calls for the forcible removal of several hundred...

It was Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the former Central Bank Governor (now Emir of Kano) who in January 2014 enriched our political lexicon with the coinage of the term Vested Interests. At a youth summit geared towards national rebirth and...

In the run up to President Muhamadu Buhari's official visit to the USA from 19 -22 July, 2015, there were palpable fears amongst Nigerians that the visit was structured for President Barack Obama to arm-twist the Nigerian president into...

As a stanch member of the All Progressive Congress, respecter of Tinubu’s school of thought and beneficiary of the Asiwaju political family in Lagos which extended to some states in South West Nigeria, I am prompted to write this...

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), one of Nigeria’s anti-graft commissions saddled by law, with the responsibilities of prosecuting ordinary and public serving Nigerians suspected or found shamefaced of financial and other criminal activities was not only misguided by...

May 29th 2015 marked a political watershed in the political annals of Nigeria in that for the first time since over half a century that the nation gained flag independence from Great Britain the incumbent ruling national political party...

It is often said that success has many relations while failure is an orphan and recent developments since the March elections have more than proven this. Droves of repentant democrats have since jumped ships to sail on the wind...

Under the Penal Code Act, forgery is defined in section 362 thus:“ a person is said to make a false document if: a. who dishonestly or fraudulently makes signs, seals or executes a document or part of a document with...