Opinion

The mobs are out again. This time, they are armed with swords and knives ready to slit the throat of any voice of reasoning that is contrary to their view. They have mobbed the 2014 budget with the sole...

That former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has gone back to grin alongside some of the same politicians who roundly chastised him into leaving the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria with his tail between his legs is amusing to say...

Contrary to the belief in certain corners, particularly the opposition, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not imploding.  Yes, the party has shed a lot of weight in recent times with the gale of defections of some of...

The unfortunate circumstances that led to the resignation of Dr. Bamanga Tukur as the National Chairman of the ruling People’s Democratic Party is  one incidence with many lessons for the current occupier of the office and for anyone who...

That the All Progressives Congress (APC) has come to stay in Nigeria is no longer news, but, what is news is its mode of recruitments! Following the wide jubilation that greeted the registration of APC as a political party last...

Welcome to Nigeria, a pseudo democratic republic where in all sorts of absurdities goes on in the name of democracy. First for the purpose of clarification, let’s have some definitions. In the manner peculiar to Nigeria and Nigerians, let’s go to...

The Nigerian nation never ceases to throw up interesting, sometimes absurd scenarios. The latest of these is the ongoing face-off between the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, and the House of Representatives...

Atiku Abubakar does not deserve any empathy. His actions since he first emerged as vice president to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in 1999 up till now, have shown that a better part of him has been consumed by desperation...

It is February! This is the beautiful month to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Many of us are thinking of buying fancy heart shaped gifts and candies or heart shaped cards for the person who makes our heart miss a skip....

The heading of this piece may read strange, but some of the parties it primarily refers to will know its source. The original quote is, "He who calls for `Asabiyyah (nationalism/tribalism) is as if he bit his father's genitals."...