Opinion

These are political seasons and indeed not the best of time to critique a government in Nigeria whereby most observers read political meanings into virtually all write ups that fundamentally addresses the major flaws in the running of any...

On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 the Speaker of Nigeria's House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal formally announced his defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the plenary of the House. The newly confirmed...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has a knack for speaking up once in a while, as if he's afraid that by maintaining the quiet dignity expected of an elder statesman he will be forgotten. His latest foray into the public...

When the forces that worked for the enthronement of Aminu Tambuwal were at work, they simply forgot that those who live by the sword die by the sword. When the back stabbing was on, it was, for them, not...

That the Republican Party won these mid-term elections is firmly established except possibly in the minds of the most partisan Democrats and even they would have some doubts about their party’s direction. Elections are fought on promises and ideas...

The first part of the series on My Next President of Nigeria was published more than a week ago. I received numerous feedback from my readers via email and comments on the social media. This is the second part...

Two Saturdays ago, I had the privilege of giving a keynote at an international conference organized at the Senate House of the University of London to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Chinua Achebe's Arrow of God. The two-day celebration was...

The recent invasion of the Koto-Kariffi Federal Medium Security Prison in Kogi State by unidentified armed men was the second of such occurrence in the last two years and at the end about one hundred and forty inmates were...

Mr. President, since the beginning of this year, is not Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh the highest-ranking military officer in Nigeria? Is this not the same man who in May of this year told the nation and the world that...

As the race to decide who clinches the gubernatorial ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State gets intense, tension is building up ahead of the party primaries later this month over alleged plans by the leadership...