Opinion

Abraham Lincoln in a speech to Illinois Legislature in 1837 said “Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interest of the people and who; to say the most of them are taken as a...

  Since 1999 when the baton of governance passed from military to civilian, not a day would pass without news of some kind of theft of public funds. In a front-page newspaper report of 8 July 2015, credited to the...

A recent interview allegedly granted by Kogi State Governor, Captain Idris Wada quoted him as saying that there is no marginalization of any group in his State. We would not want to believe that he said so. But if...

  The recent N400 billion bailout approved for the states by President Muhammadu Buhari to offset the backlog of salary owed to civil servants would certainly bring immense relief to the affected workers and their families. It is difficult to...

After the massacre of the worshippers in Charleston, South Carolina I seriously questioned and doubted my God, contrary to my Christian upbringing. I could not understand how God’s servants would be killed in cold blood as they did what...

The unwarranted invectives against Dr. Dakuku Peterside, All Progressives Congress, APC governorship candidate in the April election in Rivers State by one Simeon Nwakaudu, an aide of Mr. Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers State, is most unfortunate. Nwakaudu whose...

Media houses, especially reporters, must realise that their credibility is like virginity; once lost, due to the compromise of values, it can never be regained and the regrets of such acts of indiscretion may last a lifetime. The Nigerian media’s...

PMB  has  been  basking  in  the  exquisite  epiphany  of  his  victory, after  his  fourth  try, for  upwards  of  3  months  now. Knowing  how  difficult  it  is  to  win  a  Nigerian  election, let  alone  defeat  an  incumbent  president, his  victory,...

Rebellion and dissent have always been the hallmark of mankind on earth and even angels in heaven if the Biblical account, of how former angel Lucifer was chased from heaven into the world, is taken into consideration.   As the story...

I recall a testy exchange in 2009 at the Westin Hotel in Providence, Rhode Island between a ranking member of the Nigerian House of Representatives and a US-based, Nigerian-born attorney. Both men were attending the inaugural edition of the...