Opinion

I write in response to Dr. Joe Okei Odumakin's piece with the above title. Despite my personal regard for Dr. Odumakin's antecedents as a pro-democracy activist, it is important to put things in proper perspective even if it means...

PREAMBLE It was Marvin Harris that stated that, “I don’t see how you can write anything of value if you don’t offend someone,” while Edward Abbey said: “How could anything non-controversial be of intellectual interest to grown-ups?” Based on these...

Nigerian politicians are hyping 2015 with many of them recently picking up forms for different elective positions from their different political parties. This move is being laced with many of them sermonising their manifestoes that are appealing to the...

Like peace-building, the solution to poverty does not reside in quick-fix approach but in a sustainable humanitarian effort. Also, just like nation-building, combating extreme poverty requires the collective and synergetic effort of all irrespective of class strata. Therefore, there...

Imagine that a man diligently serves the fatherland for 35 years, contributing a specified sum out of his salary to become his pension when the feebleness of old age sets in. Yet, at the end of the day, he...

From the onset, I must applaud myself for adding another word into the Nigerian political lexicon. The Nyakoic-Fintirism simply can be defined as the events that led to the pull-out of the former Governor of Adamawa state, Retired Air...

It is easy to blame Nigerian abroad social media critics, arm chair theorists, bedroom revolutionaries for not running for elective office in Nigeria. They are often blamed for their seeming lack of political engagement. They are often faulted as consumed...

I was seven (7) years old when the Nigerian Civil War ended in 1970 but I can recollect a particular song we were taught in the primary school then. It goes like this; “OHOO NWANNEM, MU NA NWANNEM JERE OGU,...

On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, former Head of State and a national leader of the All Progressives Congress, General Muhammadu Buhari, formally declared his intention to vie for his party’s presidential ticket ahead of the 2015 general elections. If...

Here we go again, discussing the presidential ambition of the former military dictator, General Muhammadu Buhari, which he is hoping to realise in the 2015 general elections. The former military head of state from 1983 to 1985, who will...