Opinion

Here we go again, discussing the presidential ambition of the former military dictator, General Muhammadu Buhari, which he is hoping to realise in the 2015 general elections. The former military head of state from 1983 to 1985, who will...

After failing to blackmail Linda Ikeji, Mukhtar 'Mr. Aye Dee' Daniyan, a Twitter predator, seeks out another victim, this time Bola Tinubu but it is a journey that has ended even before it began. The man, who canonized his name...

Few days to the much anticipated primaries of the ruling national party- the Peoples Democratic Party there are visible evidence of high wired political campaigns at the levels of major powerful political blocs by the different aspirants to...

Despite two ceasefires, thousands of lives lost and over a million and a half civilians displaced, fighting continues in South Sudan, pitting government troops against opposition forces. The latest ceasefire – the second since violence erupted in December last...

1. During the Yar Adua’s administration, militants’ activities in Niger Delta led to substantial drop in crude oil production from over 2.5 million barrels per day to just over 700,000. To restore normalcy to the region, Niger Delta elders...

With all modesty do I need to share this rhetoric in the public domain, simply because I am one of the many people who are painstakingly waiting to see what direction the law will go in the matter of...

New facts showing stronger links between former governor of Borno state, Ali Modu Sheriff, and the Boko Haram sect have emerged, further fuelling suggestions the ex-governor is a major financier of the terrorist sect. Intelligence insights obtained by newsmen...

  Could it be the next global reserve currency? In March this year Zimbabwe joined a growing list of countries in Africa and the world using the Chinese currency, yuan, also known as remnibi (RMB), as one of its official currencies...

In my usual tradition of observing early morning hot coffee ritual, I sat not so comfortably ensconced in my office somewhere in the neighbourhood of Maitama Abuja from where I saw a deluge of youth making a move towards...

When the All Progressives Congress (APC) was born in July 2013, it raised hopes that it would play the role of Nigeria's major opposition party in the best tradition of a presidential democracy.  Even among members of the ruling...