Opinion

And it came to pass as the multitude gathered around him at the festival of appraisal of King Nebu of Aso Kingdom which came to pass six years after he hath succeeded King Yar, the son of Mutawalli, the...

"If you tell a lie that's big enough, and you tell it often enough, people will believe you are telling the truth, even when what you are saying is total crap." - Richard Belzer in his book UFOs, JFK, and Elvis: Conspiracies You...

The recent call for arrest of High Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo, and other Niger Delta agitators for freedom, is capable of stripping General Theophilus Y. Danjuma (rtd), former Chief of Army Staff and Defence Minister, of the garb...

An unwelcome, but familiar, sight of lengthy fuel queues sprawled out at many petrol stations across the country has led to widespread panic buying and mass confusion regarding the origins of the scarcity.   Oil & Gas analysts have pointed to...

Late February, the Central Bank of Nigeria CBN closed two public auction structures popularly known as Retail Dutch Auction System RDAS and Wholesale Dutch Auction System WDAS. In a statement signed by its Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr. Ibrahim...

'Yahaya, how are you doing?' I asked. 'Fine, oga' he responded. Its been a while I last called my friend, Yahaya, who works at one of the Bureau de change in Yaba, Lagos. Ever since the depreciation of the naira, clients have stopped paying in dollars, most...

In the days of the locusts between 1985 and 1999 Father George Ehusani wrote a book called A Prophetic Church. The major thrust of that book is that the Church should speak, fight and work for the poor in...

I really made up my mind to keep my big mouth shut. I guess I opened this big mouth too wide for too long last year. I woke up one day and discovered I’d slept with my mouth open,...

Cable News Network actually turned Bill Cosby belated scandal into a special. It was a repetition of the same allegation against Bill Cosby that turned people’s stomach and heart. If more ladies opened up, hardly would many powerful men...

On Saturday February 14th, the day Nigerians were supposed to cast their vote for who they want as their next president, I was having fun with some couple of friends in a quiet suburb in the Lone Star State....