Opinion

Africa remains the only Continent that officially recognizes foreign religions and sponsors holy lands outside Africa officially at the expense of its own. As if God and holy place never existed in Africa, foreign terrorists designated their tumultuous cities...

A friend once told me that the struggle for the soul of Nigeria is not going to be a tea party because corruption will fight back with lethal weapons that can be found anywhere. He told me that corruption...

President Goodluck Jonathan's suspenseful uncertain transitional government is gradually drawing to a close. His secret wish had been truncated. He expects Nigerians to simply reward his 6-year gutter government with another 4-year without election. It was a vain fancy...

Permit me to start by thanking Chatham House for the invitation to talk about this important topic at this crucial time. When speaking about Nigeria overseas, I normally prefer to be my country’s public relations and marketing officer, extolling her virtues and hoping to attract investments and tourists. But...

The killing of a security guard at a synagogue in Copenhagen over two weeks ago has renewed Netanyahu’s call for mass immigration of European Jews to Israel. Although he has made such impetuous appeals before, he now makes a...

Victor Onyekachi Ochei is a man who strongly believes in his own political convictions and in the course of his chequered and impressively illustrious and quite dramatic political trajectory, he has often been proved, both at a personal level...

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....