Opinion

Nigeria is in a season of politics. The politicking is reaching a fever pitch as the political parties and their various candidates criss-cross the length and breadth of the country campaigning for votes. Everywhere you go, the dominant issues...

On Monday in the front pages of the Punch and the Sun Newspapers, Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State jettisoned all norms and decency associated with that exalted office and consequently put the whole of Nigeria in danger. Governor...

"Blackmailed into silence, Nigerians watched as the traditional foundations of the state were eroded. Ethnicity became the principle of state policy. The economy sputtered along. Educational policy was in a shambles. Our hospitals became graveyards. And all along we...

Until recently I have never witnessed such bizarre and stupefying scenes in Lagos like I did when I was in a colleague's car, driving back from work between Anthony-Oke Bus stop and Oshodi-Oke Bus stop. This was barely some...

The Enugu International Airport also known as Akanu Ibiam International Airport is another 419 on the Biafran Igbo citizens of Nigeria because there is yet nothing international about the airport. It is instructive to note that late President Umoru...

"A Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way" – John C. Maxwell. Until the All Progressives Congress picked Warisenibo Dakuku Adulphus Peterside as its governorship candidate in Rivers State, there was confusion and...

How can we forget how millions of jobless Nigerians were lured with promises of jobs with the immigration authorities in Nigeria? How stadia across the nation were used as death traps for some unsuspecting young job seekers who had paid...

For weeks, I had resisted the urge to write. So many landmark events have transpired in the last few weeks and despite the persistent prompting by two editors to put my opinion into words, I chose not to. I just...

It has been alleged that the 2015 expenditures for the 2015 Nigerian elections would be about N20 billion. This is a significant amount however one looks at it. But are all parts of the country getting the benefits of...

Food prices skyrocket as farmers abandon farms As Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone battle the deadly Ebola virus outbreak and the world mobilizes to contain it, high food prices have been reported as farmers abandon their fields in the affected countries. The...