Opinion

It may be that, more than any other terrain, mountain regions exemplify a particular paradox – that of dense poverty coexisting with a special potential for transformative prosperity. The conditions that create mountain people’s impoverishment are rooted both in local...

We wish to advert the attention of  members and supporters of All Progressives Congress (APC) world-wide on what has become a painful recurring development in the progressives' rank led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. We are forced to make this known...

In Africa there is a saying that no matter how confident the hen gets, the time comes when a mighty gust of winds exposes its rump. This is clearly the case with America with regards to the ongoing insurgency in...

Long before the Boko Haram crisis reached the present crescendo, a former American Marine combatant, believed to be an accredited diplomat, managing one of the world's largest private intelligence organisations, Gordon Duff; writing in an American publication, Veterans Today, had weaved a...

In assessing a political leader, the primary qualities to consider include the theoretical ideals of vision, commitment and political will. Then, of course, we take stock of the leader's capacity to deliver in terms of concrete achievements. A leader...

Several stories of the subtle moves by 16 governorship aspirants under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to stop the people's choice Barrister Nyesom Ezenwo Wike from going ahead with his governorship aspiration endorsed by the people...

Africa has never been a poor continent, always a honeycomb. It has produced the richest and the most generous folks in history; while enriching others led to its own detriment. The richest human that ever lived was the Queen...

36 innocent ''non-muslim'' souls were slaughtered in cold blood in Kenya on 2nd December by Al Shabab. Amongst them were defenceless women and children. The same thing happened in Kano, Nigeria four days earlier when over 200 innocent ''muslim''...

Let me warn you, reader, in advance: If you have a squeamish constitution, please do not read this piece. Just stop here and flee, for the story I'm about to tell is terribly ugly and disturbing. It is bound...

2015 is going to be the year Nigeria becomes a strong nation or the year Nigeria seizes to exist. Many experts including the USA CIA hold the later view, and these experts know how to read tea leaves. A...