Opinion

"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...

The Ferguson outcome is just another reminder of the existing rift between whites and blacks in racialized America. As far as the psyche of white America is concerned, it appears that black people, no matter their geographical background, do...

Prime Minster Netanyahu's insistence on passing a bill that will define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is as disgraceful as his denial that Israel is not an occupying power. If the bill were to pass now...

Americans Courts did not trust Jury with cases until later. One African lie once told us; in Texas you don’t walk the streets with your hands in your pockets, because someone might shoot you before you shoot him. Americans...