Opinion

Why the global economy needs new economic thinking. (1) The beginning If you talk to one hundred people, one hundred and two are going to tell you that the global economy is highly imbalance and surely unsafe for all its inhabitants. Yet,...

Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie is a man of moral masculinity. He has been known to speak his mind on any issue.  I really think the government should be elastic enough to accommodate the views of such a renowned man...

THERE is no stopping President Goodluck Jonathan from falling into the clairvoyance trap. Already, the presidency has reached the empty point. The timeless advice, "Say what you mean, and mean what you say",  which  must be preceded by knowing...

A Special Appeal to the All Progressives’ Congress National Delegates and Presidential Aspirants I write this appeal with strong words and all sense of modesty because the time has come for all good-lovers of Nigeria, who aren’t driven with financial...

Shortly after Godswill Akpabio was sworn in as the governor of Akwa Ibom State in 2007, his first official performance was to harass journalists. He hated and had a high disdain for any journalist who reported the truth, the...

Last Wednesday—the 54th anniversary of Nigeria's Independence—was a day of silence for me. I didn't have the stomach to leave any comment on Facebook or Twitter. Two or three friends and family members sent me texts of felicitation. Demure,...

In a recent newspaper advertisement, the All Progressives Congress (APC), through its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, copiously commended the Governors of Lagos and Rivers States for their successful achievements in containing the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)....

We believe that Nigeria is a colony of Northern Nigeria being illegally ruled by a Niger Delta impostor, President Jonathan. - ---Dr Khalid Abubukar Aliyu. General Secretary Jama atul Nasir Islam (JNI) This APC's only chance of defeating the PDP...

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is at it again.  The party does not fail to live to its billing in raking up unnecessary controversy all in an effort to play what it understands as "opposition politics."  Just when we...

Wole Soyinka's Madmen and Specialists is, at its heart, a satirical play featuring a perverted medical specialist whose lust for power during wartime leads him to imprison and torment his father, a well-regarded physician. It is in this context...