Opinion

Sooner or later, the children of Niger Delta in general and those of Ijaw in particular are going to ask for the legacy of Ijaw President that most Nigerians clamored for as reflected in 2011 votes North and South...

(Response to “Buhari Vs Jonathan: Beyond the Election, by Charles Soludo”) 1. For anyone who has not read Professor Charles Soludo’s article in the Vanguard (online version) on January 25 2015, I would encourage them to do so. It is...

Prime Minister Netanyahu has been more vocal than any of his predecessors about the ‘looming Iranian danger,’ insisting that any agreement to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons will amount to nothing more than a technical pause. He has...

Ahead of the February 14, 2015 Presidential Election, a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Chukwuma Charles Soludo, recently fired several salvos at the ideas of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), which is led by President Goodluck Jonathan, and...

The government of Goodluck Jonathan is the most vivid example we have of the virus of lost standard. Under his watch, the country has gone to the dogs. Government officials are massively squandering our patrimony and looting the treasury...

On Tuesday 13th January 2015 Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the APC Presidential candidate gleefully announced at a campaign rally in Enugu State that he would solve the boko haram insurgency in just two weeks if voted into power. The cheering news...

I have just passed through the Adokiye Amesiemaka stadium newly constructed by the Rivers State government in the new Port Harcourt City. It has been taken over by gun-toting and combat ready military men after the People’s Democratic Party...

I am deeply concerned that at this time of political campaign, as it usually happens, the word “Christian” is loosely used in reference to certain candidates for elective offices in Nigeria. The church stands the risk of being used...

We commend Professor Chukwuma Soludo’s for his insightful and incisive article published in the Vanguard and Nation Newspapers of January 26th under the above title. We agree with Professor Soludo that if the political parties, including ours, must justify...

I am getting increasingly worried at the ability of a number of supposedly educated people to comprehend, let alone interpret, basic ideas communicated even in the most elementary of ways. The immediate context of this worry is the combative...