Opinion

  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...

  In recent weeks, its been politics of defection all over the country and all the political parties have had their own share of defection one way or the other but it seems the ruling party, People's Democratic Party are...

  The practice of organic agriculture combines traditional methods with today’s knowledge of health and environmental sustainability. In Morocco it is generally observed that the more remote the farming communities – and most often the more disadvantaged – the less...

  In the early hours of the morning of April 14th 2014 276 girls were abducted from their school as they slept. They all came from a predominantly Christian town in northern Nigeria called Chibok. They were all between the ages...

On October 9, 2014, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State was said to have thrown caution to the winds and engaged in all for free brawl at the National Campaign Office of the party in Maitama, Abuja....

Mr. President, like State universities, let’s empower State governments to run and even establish Penal and Correctional Institutions within their jurisdictions in order to overhaul the Nigerian Prisons System, which has failed woefully in some of its core mandates...

  As a student of religious politics and religious terrorism, I am quite aware that religious leaders do have political agendas and characteristically use the altar to mobilize (or de-mobilize) their followers for politics. I was, however, utterly shocked after...

  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 &...