Opinion

Nigeria's Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister for Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has loomed very large for over a decade to the extent that any serious discussion of the country's problems without a mention of her name is like...

Since last Wednesday I've been nursing some sort of bodily dislocation after the ugly incident at Okrika during the attack on the campaign train of Dr. Dakuku Adol Peterside, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Governorship candidate in Rivers State....

Nigeria’s ex-dictator General Muhammadu Buhari has millions of cult-like followers and they are not worried about him. But I am. With five weeks to go before the presidential election, GMB is in London. There has been many opinions on...

Even at the tamest of times, Nigeria can be an infuriating address. In an election season, it becomes maddening, a space where nothing is sacred any more. Lies, which are often the politician’s favorite currency, enter a festering phase....

At a time when the United States of America is celebrating Black History month and reminding the people and the world of the historical pains, racial struggles and winnings of Blacks, we keep coming back to the question of...

Too many have had to suffer at the hands of a political economic elite whose only fight is for them by them, with them and them... And with a bureaucracy so bloated and confused, the powerful always win...but...--Onyedikachi Ndidi   In...

Barbara Stanwyck: “We're both rotten!”   Fred MacMurray: “Yeah – only you're a little more rotten.”   Those lines of dialogue from the film “Double Indemnity” (1944) sum up the state of the two major political parties in Nigeria today. Both parties are...

Leaders and elders are epitome of wisdom and standard-bearers of basic societal value system preservation. Leadership is a huge burden and being an elder is a tailored responsibility. A leader can be likened to a torch-bearer in a large...

My attention has been drawn this morning to an article entitled: “Jonathan Replies Soludo over “missing N30 trillion” claim”— extracting from Mr. President’s interview as published by Thisday newspaper. ThisDay quoted Mr. President as saying that “Soludo said that under...

Anybody who sees Ayo Fayose, the so-called governor of Ekiti State should please beg him to see a psychiatric doctor before it is too late. From the look of things now I do not know if the man ever...