Opinion

In recent weeks the All Progressive Congress(APC) has been rocked with a tidal wave of defection of a founding member in Chief Tom Ikimi and the party’s 2011 presidential candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to the party Nigerians loathe but...

The proper address should be Mrs Alison-Madueke and for this reason, the titling above seems to fall short in required courtesy. But there is something about this woman, a tough girl quality underneath that fine designer face, which calls...

For whia? These Voodoo economists are like opposite adversaries in the judicial system. You can get an economist to support whatever position you want. By the time they calculate their Gross Domestic Product GDP, Net Domestic Product and National...

AN ADDRESS AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE NEW POLLING UNITS STRUCTURE BY HON. CHAIRMAN, INDEPENDENT NATIONAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION (INEC), PROFESSOR ATTAHIRU M. JEGA, OFR, ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014. Introduction In recent times, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has...

If not for the courage and sheer gallantry of the men and women of the Nigerian Armed Forces Boko Haram would have taken over Bama and many other towns in north-eastern Nigeria by now and things would have been...

A lot of lies can be hidden in the truth. Thousands have died in the violence in Nigeria’s northeast between Boko Haram insurgents and the security forces, with no end in sight to the bloodletting. Bombings and shootings by the Salafist...

Political participation is a Human Right. One of the crippling problems facing Nigerian democracy is the elitist nature of its citizen participation. Our democracy is not an all-inclusive project of a nation state. Majority of our mothers are illiterates and...

Unfriendly trade policies hamper progress Daily, millions of women in Africa are engaged in one form of trade or another, either within their countries or across national borders. They buy and sell everything, from agricultural produce to manufactured products. It...

Importers and Freight Forwarders have continued to lament over the billions Terminal Operators and Shipping Companies are making out of strangling terminal and service charges they impose on importers. Though the concessionaires claim to be collecting their statutory charges...

Have you heard the scream? It must have got to you since the yell which emanates from the south-east reverberates even in the remotest part of Kano State. By the scream, I'm referring to manner in which parts of...