Opinion

Anytime the question of who is behind the abduction of Chibok girls is asked, I remember the poem, _Mr. Nobody_ which we recited back then in primary school. Spare my memory; it’s been a while since I left primary...

Ever since Lagos PDP suffered a crushing and debilitating defeat in the just concluded national elections, the Party has been telling whoever cares to listen that it worked so hard to win Lagos but something is wrong somewhere. In...

In school at the Jos Plateau State-based then campus of the prestigious Nigerian Institute of Journalism (NIJ) where I took an intensive professional course many years back we were told that journalists are historians but of a different dimension...

Esther Chapter 6 verse 13 declared: "And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, If Mordecai, before whom you...

Since the inauguration of the 8th Nation Assembly on 9 June, 2015 many, including me, have offered several views on the causes and possible solutions to the crisis. Like most Nigerians, I want this to come to an end;...

The reversal of the unpopular policy of reassigning candidates by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) by the Federal government is commendable. While announcing the reversal, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, MacJohn Nwaobiala claimed the policy...

On the 21st July, 2015, I read an article in The Punch newspaper titled ‘Bailout for Debtor media Houses?’ by Idowu Sowunmi, a media consultant. On the third paragraph of that article, Mr. Sowunmi highlighted the names of media...

As President Mohammed Buhari furthers a procrastination to unveil his agenda as Nigeria’s new commander-in-chief,  one cannot but notice one man that in no small measures, has perfectly abetted this President in reminding Nigerians of their division and fragmentation...

By many, if not most, accounts, President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the United States was a major personal triumph and represented a significant turn in Nigeria-US relations. President Barack Obama, hosting Mr. Buhari at the Oval Office, remarked on...

By May 29, 2015, Rivers State had degenerated to an all time low. The lowest point in the history of the state. Nothing was functional as all the arms of government had been grounded. The immediate past governor of the...