Opinion

Chris Okotie is the first cerebral pastor in Nigeria to make an apostolic incursion into Nigeria’s dirty presidential politics. In 2003 he contested under Justice Party, placing 8th out of 29 candidates with 119,547 votes. Okotie formed FRESH Democratic...

About 6 months ago when political parties began their primary elections to choose their representatives for the various elective posts across the federation, many didn't know where the pendulum would swing.   To the out going ruling party, PDP, they thought...

Ever so often, even in the midst and outcry over poor leadership in Nigeria, a leader occasionally comes up with a policy or programme that stands out from the pack, offering hope, as the case may be. One of...

I always feel enthused with the words of the executive governor of Imo state, Chief Owelle Rochas Okorocha about the President-El4ect, General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR. Chief Rochas was the first to name GMB the Igbo name Okechukwu. This is...

After fifteen years of nations pursuing the Millennium Development Goals established by the United Nations, representatives of the member states, along with experts and private citizens, have defined Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to help set the course for the...

In the past few months, about twenty of Nigeria’s thirty-six states have become struggling, financially unhealthy, and economically-unviable states. From conservative estimates, they have not been able to pay their staff salaries for at least three months. While some...

Since the victory of the All Progressives Congress, APC, from the epic electoral battles, each section of the six geo-political zones of the federation has been jostling for choice positions at the centre. This is expected and permitted giving the spirit of...

Arendt Lijphart is the winner of the 1979 Ethnic and cultural pluralism Award of the American political science Association. He authored a beautiful book titled “_democracy in plural societies”_ which received global acclaim as a good encyclopedia of information on...

If PDP and the President had known that they may not make it in the 2015 presidential elections, I am dead sure they would not have looted our treasury with reckless abandon. If they had known that the bubble...

Let me begin by asking a question, is it right to bar some citizens from serving the nation without the basis of law? I think not, but as it stands, graduates of the first of its kind National Open University of Nigeria...