Opinion

I hate fakes in my life.  I have never tolerated them and will never. My entire life was vested in the opposition in order to bring about succour to the underprivileged, to the poor, and to the victims of...

The late maximum ruler and former Head of State, Gen Sani Abacha once said: ‘If insurgency lasts in any country more than two weeks, then the government must have hands in it”. If this statement is taken to be...

Patience Jonathan, aka Dame Patience, aka First Lady, aka Dr. Chief (Mrs.), aka Mama Peace, has emerged as the standard for Nigeria’s current political season—with all the consequences and implications of that designation.   Nigeria has had its share of attention-grabbing...

It does not matter who wins the next election in Nigeria, Boko Haram has met its Waterloo at home and beyond its borders. It has never been about religion, it has always been about power. Boko Haram has been...

In the middle of a vibrant electioneering campaign, it is likely that many people may have missed out on the implication of a recent advertorial by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON. In the said advertorial, SON advised Nigerians...

Dear  President  Jonathan: I, for  one, don’t  wish  you  dead. But  from  the  reprisals  Governor  Fayose’s  “death  wish”  advertorial  procreated, one  thing  is  crescent  clear: A  pint  of  our  one-hundred-and-seventy-something  countrymen  do. For  very  obvious  reasons, might  I  add.   Being ...

“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.”―...

The historian's duty is to separate the true from the false, the certain from the uncertain, and the doubtful from that which cannot be accepted-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Never knew some presumptuous apologists of the ruling government are very vast...

The weekend press was, as usual very generous with its pages dealing with the Special Adviser to the President on Media, “my friend before, before” as we say in everyday parlance, Dr. Reuben Abati. Reuben was joined in the...

In the beginning, he had no enemies to fight, like his biblical namesake President Jonathan appeared loyal and true to his looks. He was not ashamed of talking about the poverty he defeated to rise to the most exalted...