Opinion

For at least four days the Nigerian people were not aware that a convoy of Boko Haram gunmen had stormed Gumsuri in Borno state on Sunday, at least four days before President Goodluck Jonathan’s Wednesday breakfast with security chiefs...

The Barack Hussein Obama we elected in 2008/2009 is now the president of United States and the nation will be better for it. It took 6+ years to free him from the shackles that held him but it is...

But for the need to set the records straight, engaging Chief Bode George in an exchange of words is to painfully indulge a man in desperate need of social rehabilitation after a traumatic stint in jail. Indeed, there is nothing...

Mr. Muhammadu Buhari has laid a strong blow on Jonathan’s head capable of staggering the president. The impact of the blow would be seen in the future and would depend on if Buhari follows up with more blows and...

The former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu recently withdrew from his Abia North senatorial objective, giving his point on what he said were the inconsequentialities that had become Governor Theodore Orji’s convention in the state’s Peoples...

The hope of restoring normalcy to a morally bankrupt nation to a place in the sun greater than it had ever been is ebbing gradually. Nigeria is in economic straits, maimed by official corruption, which slices off more than...

Implications for Global, Regional and National Policy Illegal trade in wildlife is no longer an abstract issue. Organized transnational as well as trans-regional environmental crimes are rapidly rising threats to the environment, to revenues from natural resources, to state security...

How will Mr. Muhammadu Buhari govern? How will he make important and urgent decisions? How much control would his party have over his decision making processes? Will APC survive the vice-presidential selection process? These are some of the questions Nigerians...

In the midst of all the altercation and even violence preceding the February 2015 general elections, it is reassuring that there are top politicians who believe that politics is a sport and its practitioners must behave like sportsmen. This...

In 2011, a particular leading candidate came out with the ‘I have no Shoes’ campaign while the opposition kept screaming that Goodluck is not synonymous with good governance. Whether he really had no shoes and whether Goodluck is not...