Opinion

This is not a sanctimonious attempt to earthen the drooling failings of Nigeria. The Nigeria I know is as clumsily and nebulously unwieldy as its problems. From the patrician orbit of leadership to the thrashed stratum of followership Nigeria...

Let us state right away that most Africans are blacks and that what I write applies to Africans and other black people from around the world. This essay does not just apply to African Americans. There are men and women...

We are enjoying a true democracy in Nigeria at the moment; most especially so these last few months to the next elections. A true democracy is a government for the people, of the people and by the people. In...

When the All Progressives Congress (APC) took strong exceptions to being clad in a Janjaweed toga by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), many sympathized with the party, and rightly so, because it was feared that if religion was allowed...

If the news from the All Progressives Congress is any indication of how things are shaping up in the party of “change,” then it appears recent Nigerian political history is repeating itself, at least where it concerns former Vice...

On Friday, March 28, 2014, I was taken aback when I first read about the arrest of Mr. Ebere Wabara, a veteran journalist and associate editor with the Sun Newspaper on the facebook wall of a Port-Harcourt based media...

I received a news alert this morning that the All Progressive Congress popularly called the Angry People Congress (APC) was going to field Alhaji (Gen) Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu as their presidential candidate and running mate...

When Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi was dropped from the federal cabinet a few weeks ago, the consensus was that he was one of the best ministers in the Federal Executive Council and that competence was sacrificed on the alter of...

In recent years, unemployability has become one of the leading causes of unemployment. Yes, you read that right - our youths and graduates, are simply unemployable. A good percentage of people who spent years acquiring degrees in our Nigerian...

Last year’s prolonged strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, threw up several issues relating to the sustained development of Nigerian public universities, especially in the areas of teaching, learning and research. One of the positives...