Opinions

The recent decision by United States President, Donald J Trump, adding Nigeria and five other countries to the list of nations facing stringent travel restrictions, virtually blocking immigration from Africa’s most populous nation, is discriminatory, humiliating and on the surface should be seen as a grand design to continuously subject Nigerians to repeated abuse. President […]

A high-stake drama, precipitated by a stomach-turning judicial embarrassment with serious implications for democracy and the rule of law in Nigeria, has been unfolding in Imo State. Although the Judiciary never ceases to amuse Nigerians with its controversial positions on important national issues, the controversial ruling by the Supreme Court, which sacked Emeka Ihedioha of […]

The ordinary Nigerian may not be a soldier or military strategist; but it is logical to question the innocuous claims by President Muhammadu Buhari that, the recent spike of attacks by Boko Haram and the rising wave of criminality and insecurity that continues to claim the lives of Nigerians were signs that the murderous Islamist […]

The combative riposte by the federal government against the latest alarm bell on the rate of corruption in Nigeria sounded by the global anti-corruption watchdog, Transparency International, though hardly surprising, is scandalous and unacceptable, given that Nigeria’s diverse and growing security challenges are partly rooted in widespread poverty and unemployment, which in turn, are outcomes […]

Announcing Nigeria’s visa-on-arrival policy for all Africans at the Peace and Development Summit in faraway Egypt, President Muhammadu Buhari failed to disclose that Africa’s largest economy has one of the continent’s weakest passports; having suffered the worst decline in rankings over the last decade, on the annual Henley Passport Index with a 19-place drop. The […]

Virtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized.  So it is with Operation Amotekun: the Western Nigeria Security Network whose recent launch by the Governors of the South West, on January 9, has thrown up key questions at the heart of the Nigerian dilemma as well as […]

The story of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), like some other agencies in Nigeria is long. It is one of failure, of disappointments, and a callous disregard for the hopes and aspirations of the people. It is a story of contracts awarded for infrastructure projects, monies collected and no projects executed. It is the […]

Perhaps, President Muhammadu Buhari’s message of hope at the dawn of the New Year is all that Nigerians needed to forget the shattered hopes, broken promises, disappointments and regrets of 2019. Coming from a year that was largely burdened by policy somersaults, high unemployment, inflation, increasing debt profile, unabated insecurity and general political toxicity, Buhari’s […]

As the curtains are drawn on 2019, Nigerians take a rear view of the events that marked 2019 and one unmistakable conclusion is that it was undoubtedly a monumental year that was fraught with risks and uncertainties over the future of the nation; not the least of which was the general elections that saw the […]

  In this reflection I am using the phrase welcoming a ‘new decade’ very cautiously as I am mindful of the controversy over whether January 1 2020 should be regarded as the beginning of a new decade or the end of the last decade.  For those who argue that 2020 is the last year of […]

The birth of Jesus Christ, which was celebrated on Wednesday, December 25, is the portentous event of the Incarnation, from which Christianity draws its essence. Christians the world over, marked the birth of the Son of God and the Savior of mankind, whose spectacular life of virtue, revolutionary teaching and sacrificial death on the Cross […]

It had all the hallmarks of a well-orchestrated ambush and few saw it coming; yet it was a master stroke that caught handlers of the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole napping and left the chairman himself stunned and humiliated. In the full view of the world; Oshiomhole arrived […]