Opinion

On Wednesday, July 29, 2014, the Governor of Ekiti State, Dr Kayode Fayemi signed into Law, the Local Government Council Bill. With this, 19 additional Local Governments had been created, making the state to have a total of 35...

The other day, a photo splash was done on Facebook showing leaders of western countries carrying their bags without assistance from their retinue of aides; but along with those photographs was one of President Goodluck Jonathan’s Aide de Camp...

Given the fact that many Nigerian pastors are title-maniac, it is surprising that no religious emperor from their league has officially designated himself a pope. Well, none may have arrogated the title, but many act like popes. One of...

Representing Anambra Central Senatorial District in the Senate, Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige (Onwa, as he is fondly called) is 62. He was born on August 8 1952. He became a political figure in Nigeria, after winning the 2003 gubernatorial...

There are many symptoms that manifest the breakdown of the Nigerian state. They are in form of status arrogance; repressive grandstanding, peddling of falsehoods, corruption, undemocratic militarization of the political space, insecurity and electoral heist. Some of these major symptoms...

Moving from certainty to uncertainty is a virtue not many will possess in this crunch period where political calculations and alignments ahead of the 2015 general elections is the primary focus. The norm at this sensitive stage is to...

There are times when you hold your breath, bury yourself in silent hopes and fervently mutter some sincere prayers that a young man will resist the youthful nudge to exhibit the same folly and vainglory exhibited by “Nza the...

Did women complain about men’s Viagra? Hell no, they accept it. So men should not complain about some ladies’ personal assistants. The daughter of a famous politician once claimed men are useless to her because most of them are...

The Israelis and Palestinians have been trapped for decades between delusions and denial and both have resorted to ideological and religious dogmas that dismiss with conviction any factual evidence to the contrary. A powerful Israeli right-of-center constituency led by Prime...

Writing about Jude Okwe’s death at this time is not what I prayed for, but as a Muslim, we believe in “Inalahi Wainalahi Rajiunnah” meaning, “It is from Allah we come and to Him alone we shall all return”....