Opinion

With heavy heart and sadness, I join the global community to mourn the passing into glory of Nelson Rolihlahla Madiba Mandela as well as celebrate his life, leadership, and legacy.  My deepest sympathy goes to Mandela’s family over the...

The recent death of one of Africa’s greatest legend, the man who led the struggle against and eventual elimination of South African white domination in government, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, is painful and, indeed a great loss to the family,...

“The values of freedom, respect for human rights and the principle of holding periodic and genuine elections by universal suffrage are essential elements of democracy.  In turn, democracy provides the natural environment for the protection and effective realization of...

Zoning or power shifting is the act of shifting or sharing political offices to various geo-political zones or districts in a bid to balance the political equation. In Nigeria, zoning has become a norm in the politically charged and divisive...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), although composed of intellectuals, from the lowest to the highest, remains a trade union. Naturally, it employs the crude and rough tactics associated with trade unions elsewhere in the world. Beyond this...

A fundamental vestige of dictatorship is the existence of a largely untrained and grossly undisciplined armed operatives belonging to a dysfunctional policing institution whose operatives formed the dominant segment of the tools deployed by absolute dictators to unleash violence...

Warning: Do not disturb … Democracy in progress … Nigerian style …Dumb Senators at work!: The Senate is on its way to pass a bill that seeks seven years jail term of social media critics found guilty of inciting...

In relation to the recent plea by the Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI), headed by his eminence, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad lll, for the immediate release of Dr. Mohammed Yunus, the Kogi State lecturer who has been...

When I read the news report a few days ago credited to Governor Muazu Babangida Aliyu that he would release very soon, a list of 400 northerners that the presidency plans to bribe to secure 2015 elections in almost...

Since the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on strike on July 1, this year, there are many who are still not convinced about the altruistic explanations given by university lecturers on the necessity of the action.  Yes,...