Opinion

In the news, Nigeria is being schooled by South Africa as it plans to adopt South Africa’s highly controversial, 3-year stalled road use toll-tax. But as can be expected, unlike South Africa, Nigeria did not first revamp its roads...

For those Nigerians and non-Nigerians who have carefully observed proceedings around and within the public universities, this is the era of growth. Make no mistakes; there are very serious challenges, but the process towards attaining the days of glory...

I attended the commemoration events marking the eighteenth anniversary of the murder of the environmental activist and leader of the Movement of the Survival for Ogoni People (MOSOP), late Ken Saro-Wiwa. I was already in the University of Ibadan...

Every summer I look forward to my vacation in Nigeria with delicious shyness and nostalgia of my boyhood days in a country I was once proud of. Like most things in life, sometimes we feel disappointed the way things are...

Social contract is an umbilical cord which tethers the conscience of a government to the vulnerabilities and necessities of a people. Graphically, the conscience of a government is assessed by its high or low sensitivity threshold; sensitivity in the...

One thing you cannot take away from Chief Tom Ikimi is his ability to draw symbolisms to illustrate his points.  Penultimate week in Port Harcourt, the former External Affairs Minister offered Nigerians another meaning to the APC acronym of...

It is an unfortunate reality of our times that many Nigerians have become experts at disapproving. Indeed, they are lacking in the simple yet humane act of giving credit where it is due.  A major case in point is...

Sequel to requests by friends on social media asking my view about the ongoing crisis between Dr. Bukola Saraki, the son of late Kwara strong man Dr. Olusola Saraki, and the boss of Federal Character Commission (FCC), Professor Abdulraheem...

Permit me to start with a caveat. My background and orientation means I’ll always be “biased” in favour of quality education. I am a firm believer in the revolutionary power of education. My father was a teacher, all my...

It was on a Friday, the 1ST Nov. 2013, time was 8:45 pm. As a devoted Roman Catholic by the grace of God, I had attended mass in the morning to mark the All Saints Day. I was supposed...