Opinion

Their relentless commitment to getting the job done, their unquestionable dedication to duty, their creative approach to highly complex issues, and most importantly, the fact that they are all women. These are among the many reasons the phrase ‘The...

‘Dino Melaye will do anything for money if the pay is right from a willing paymaster,’ a friend, Mohammed, who is familiar with Dino’s antics right from his school days in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, once said disappointedly about...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has overstepped the bounds of reason. To say that most discerning Nigerians are angry with the union is an understatement. Whoever anticipated that ASUU’s show of shame would last this long? At first,...

Early this year, I visited the residence of an elder brother of mine, Senator Yisa Braimoh, in Abuja on his invitation, for us to meet minds on some issues connected to his political engagements in Edo State.  Those close...

Until Wiki Leaks came along, the Pentagon Papers published by New York Times was for the past four decades the largest leak of classified documents in American history. Though Barack Obama had promised Americans the most transparent administration in...

India has certainly come a long way forward in its response to providing access to standard WHO recommended anti-TB treatment through Directly Observed Treatment Short course (DOTS) to more than 14.2 million (1.42 crores) people across the country. Yet...

Mr. Femi Orebe wrote gleefully about Fayemi in the Nations newspaper of October 19, 2013 - A peep into Fayemi’s Second Term, as if Governor Fayemi’s administration is the best thing to happen to Ekiti. Indeed, Fayemi has been...

Since graduating from the University of Port Harcourt many years ago, I always look forward to any opportunity to reconnect with Port Harcourt, although it is always difficult to say what exactly fires the attachment. Maybe, the inexplicable  joyful...

Nigeria battles to comprehend the level of corruption among officials of our present Jonathan government as re-highlighted by an award deserving, timely revelation SaharaReporters made, that our Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah had the Ministry purchase two bulletproof BMW’s...

The 2015 general elections are some months away but in politics especially in the Nigerian context, a thousand years is like just the next day so most aspirants to political offices in 2015 are already galvanizing their machinery to...