Opinion

In recent weeks, its been a kind of "Jaw Jaw diplomacy" between Nigeria and The United States government over alleged refusal of The United States to sell lethal weapons to Nigerias armed forces. The United States government has come out...

We have refused to ask ourselves, why would an individual blow himself up in the process of trying to blow others he despise? Why have some people chosen death over life? Why have they decided to exclude themselves from...

Nigerians need to know the answer to this question; and fast. Is the so-called terror suspect in the April 14th Nyanya bus park bombing, Aminu Ogwuche, who was publicly extradited from Sudan in a show of government agency “efficiency”...

"What the world needs is an Emergency Boss. An Emergency Czar. An Emergency Commander. A true master of Disaster. One person completely responsible for the anticipation, immediate reconnaissance and urgent execution of rescue and relief efforts around the world."—Steven...

The prevailing pattern where state governors dictate who assume positions of power in Nigeria is ruining the nation’s nascent democracy and must be confronted head on. But a recent threat by a brigade of PDP senators to impeach President...

It is only a slave mind and a politically blind person that does not see that Godswill Obot Akpabio's zoning propaganda is a fraud. Akpabio is the most deceitful politician in Nigeria today. What is he zoning? To where...

In Nigerian politics, it is a waste of campaign efforts to try to canvass for the votes of some categories of the electorate. The first category comprises voters who have firmly made up their minds concerning whom to vote...

I am no economist. Then again, neither are a whole lot of the people who have written or spoken in recent times on the economic issues prevalent in our nation today. We are, however, stakeholders; after all, it is...

Over the past few days, I have read and listened to various discussions about the state of the Nigerian economy, and it is disheartening to see some supposed opinion leaders feeding the public with half-truths or blatant lies all...

Those of us who were already adults when, in 1986, Professor Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka won his Nobel Prize in Literature, knew very well that he won the laurel, not so much because of his literary prowess but for what...