Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah center for faith and leadership Research has tasked me to deliver this speech at the round table dialogue on the strategies for avoiding the use of hate speech especially as the 2015 elections are...
I have taken my time to read, albeit painfully, the very lengthy article put together by Soludo and gleefully published by Sahara Reporters. When I read the article from a man who literally dropped off the surface of the...
"Don't ask the deaf man to beat a drum for you to dance"-- Anonymous
Looking at the two most important men in Nigeria for the next few weeks sitting in front of me, was with mixed feelings, here was President...
Muhammadu Buhari may be a man of integrity as many like to shout the rest of us down with; but he has lost whatever purity was ascribed to him, if any. He has lost every measure of respect now...
When Barrister Kingsley Otuaro emerged running mate to Senator Ifeanyi Arthur Okowa, the governorship standard bearer of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, his name came across to many as new and a bolt from the blues. This...
To achieve the seemingly elusive African renaissance the leaders have to steer the societies and the peoples away from the current practice of reliance and expectation from the outside, to a firmly rooted belief in self and native solutions.
The...
It is not exactly clear what the Lagos Governor, Babatunde Fasola, was thinking but his comments to Lagosians that his friend and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial candidate, Jimmy Agbaje, was too old at 57 to rule the state,...
There is no better way to put the cause of the present political heat in the country except to situate it within the context of systemic rot which has overtime permeated every segment of the society with monumental negatives...
Let me start by stating that I have always admired General Muhammadu Buhari's ascetic lifestyle in just the manner I envy President Goodluck Jonathan's humility. These are virtues that are beginning to vanish in a society that has taken...
The APC camp is unrelenting. It has decided that come rain or shine, the 72-year old ex-general must make Aso Rock on May 29. A certificate or something that approximates that has been shown to put paid to debates...