Opinion

Friday, May 24, 2013. 35 governors gathered to vote for the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF). With the initial postponement and intrigues that surrounded it, it was going to be a night of long knives. With the...

There is no doubt that the 2015 Presidential Election would afford the various political parties in the country the opportunity of presenting their first eleven presidential candidates before the Nigerian electorates! These are candidates we hope would take us...

The latest attempt to bomb a prominent leader of APC, General Buhari out of existence portents grave danger for the survival of democracy, as well as Nigeria’s as a political entity. Whoever muted the idea to lie in wait...

Few days back the retiring Inspector General of Police Abubakar Dikko Mohammed thrilled himself with the mistaken belief that he would hoodwink unsuspecting members of the public to see him as a humble officer when he assumed the role...

Like the wise-saying, the journey of twenty years, begins with a step. Hon Michael Opeyemi Bamidele’s journey in the world has been eventful. Though chequered and tortuous , but had been so rewarding due to God’s grace, self discipline...

In a bid to continue to inform Nigerians and the international community on the situation report concerning the obvious unjust arrest and illegal detention of Citizen (Dr) Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha and his wife (Chioma) on the orders of Speaker...

“A dream-team is an assembly of humane and urbane beings, who uphold in the highest esteem a moral sanctity and fundamental necessity that allows man to live as individual within the community of others without molestation, harassment or threat...

The recent exchanges between Professor Okey Ndibe, an intense columnist and essayist and Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, a cerebral clergyman and loquacious intellectual of Sokoto Arch-Diocese threw up issues of concern to many of us. I do not intend...

The ongoing effort by some religious leaders to idealise the opulent lifestyle has done society more harm than good. It indicates a failure to appreciate the fact that idealism and materialism hardly coexist. Anyone engaged in the single-minded pursuit...

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible. But man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary” - Reinhold Niebuhr Some call him “The Game Changer”. Others say he is the “Asiwaju of Nigeria’s democracy.” Yet, not a few view him a...