Opinion

  Sometime in 2005, a friend took ill at workplace in one of the federal parastatals in Lagos and had to visit the Staff Clinic.  An experienced doctor after thoroughly examining him put his finger on the cause of his...

  I have often been questioned at various fora for my views on the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria and now widely acknowledged zoning to the Northern part of the country. Most times I have shied away from discussing ethnic...

  Last week a powerful delegation of Igbo leaders made up of secretary to federal government, Chief Anyim Pius Anyim, Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, Deputy Speaker of House of Representatives, Emeka Ihedioha, Senator Hope Uzodinma, Minister of Labour &...

  In 2010 when other Presidential candidates were declaring their presidential interest with Six Points Agenda, Four Points Agenda even Seven Points Agenda, President Good Luck Ebele Jonathan declared his own with “Transformation Agenda”. With Transformation Agenda being a novel idea...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 16, (THEWILL) – The first time I ever picked personal interest in the affairs of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Borno State politics was when he became the governor of the State in 2003. There were so...

Few Months back, the organized civil society community in Nigeria were attracted to the outcry by the wife of the sitting governor of Enugu State that her husband and the executive governor of Enugu state and indeed a senior...

It is no longer news that President Goodluck Jonathan and his People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to recapture Rivers State. The President himself said so publicly during his party’s South-South rally in...

One of the good things going for the 2015 general elections was the declaration by the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, that all consensus governorship candidates raised by party’s state chapters, null and void. The warning by the party’s...

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...

Next year's general elections have now thrown our nation into the eleventh-hour of high-level politicking. Politics and all else remotely related to it are now having a free run. Since ours is a country where realpolitik for the next...