Opinion

In June 2011, fresh out of the defeat of the opposition parties at the general elections, the post elections violence that has taken place in some parts of the North as a result, a President who had ran the...

What are all the universities in the Niger Delta specializing in if they cannot improve the so called illegal portable refineries changing crude oil into petrol? We have Federal University of Petroleum Resources in Effurun in Warri, Delta State....

The agitation for the state of Biafra has been a struggle that is not alien to Nigeria. Many of us that were not born when the Nigerian civil war was fought or the events that preceded the war may...

After nearly three weeks of assumption of office, president Muhamadu BUHARI seem to be giving Nigerians, especially the corrupt ones,who have the proverbial 'skeletons in their cupboards' the 'silence treatment' which so far, seems to be the visible administrative strategy...

Every average conscious Nigerian knows the heavy burdens which former President Jonathan left behind for President Muhammadu Buhari. These burdens are so enormous that Mr. President should listen and copy from the voice of wisdom from Lady Eleanor Roosevelt...

It is clear to discerning observers that the current ding-dong tussle between former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is nothing but the work of hatchet men wielding old tricks that...

One public institution that has been silently taking giant strides in the past one year is the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and it is more than mere coincidence that the spike in the positive impacts of the fund...

Democracy is held to be the most advanced and judicious form of governance developed by man. It gives people a say in how their affairs are ordered and to choose those to superintendent over their affairs. Therein lies its...

Among Yoruba people, one hears a lot these days about what is called “the Aole curse”. It refers to certain traditions concerning one late 18th century Alaafin of Oyo (the old Oyo-Ile, the center of the Oyo Empire –...

In September 2015, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will expire and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will set in.  Launched by the United Nations at the Millennium Summit in 2000, the eight MDGs sought to eradicate or reduce, among...