Opinion

Muhammadu Buhari is in trouble. However, I am not cringing in sympathy for him: he asked for it, and he must bear his cross alone like a messiah. Nonetheless, I must confess that I am not treating his plight...

Nigeria – the nation that cries, a cadence reserved for funeral dirges. A country full of lamentations with diary of disaster. Over the years we've realized the squalid misery of a great nation, it appalled and tormented us and...

Kayode Fayemi has a PhD (Doctor of Philosophy) in War studies but that is not the PhD I am talking about. This PhD is known in Nigerian parlance as Pull Him Down.  It is usually awarded to somebody whose...

Your Excellency, sir Congratulations on your election victory and swearing in as the third executive governor of our beloved Ebonyi state. This is first year of the occupation of your Excellency of the White House as the first citizen the...

More than 40 percent of the unemployed and underemployed in Nigeria engage in small-skilled labour or what some people may call unskilled or hard labour.   These people are vulnerable to abuse, exploitation, discrimination and often used to perpetuate crimes. Heroes are also those young...

In his inaugural address to the nation, Nigerian president, Muhammadu Buhari gave a strange order for the Military Command Centre or the Headquarters to immediately relocate to Maiduguri till terrorism is defeated. Since he made this speech, many so-called...

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has been floating a false, disparaging and disastrous news piece that claimed that human flesh was served in a restaurant in Awaka, Anambra State of Nigeria. It was a sensational and slanderous story that...

I have read several articles for or against the Ekiti State Governor, Ayo Fayose, since he won the state gubernatorial election for the second time last year. The most recent I read was written under the title, STILL ON...

Eighteen months ago, Bentiu, like most towns in South Sudan, was bustling with the restlessness of markets, people trading and children going to school.  UNMISS, the UN Mission in South Sudan, was busy supporting development and growth in the...

Out of the US1billion dollar I got from the oil block, I have USD500 million left which I do not know what to spend it on"--Gen T.Y Danjuma (rtd).   I once watched bemused, a deaf and dumb boy who caught...