Opinions

Media are regarded as the fourth estate of the realm because of their contribution to the society. Be it in advanced or developing nation, media are unique and cannot be pushed aside as they educate, entertain and even shape the mind of the people. The uniqueness about the media is that they are news gatekeeper. […]

Several comments have been emerging on different media following the abduction of more than 100 school girls from Government Girls Technical College, Dapchi in Yobe State. It is really a sad occurrence and we hope they are re-united safely with their families soon. The common submission in different quarters is that the government has not […]

Last Saturday, a friend forwarded to me this headline: “Nigerians are receiving expired education, says US Varsity VC.” The story was published in a mainstream national newspaper. He and I have studied and worked in countries that supposedly do not offer “expired education” to their citizens and foreigners that study in them. Without wasting precious […]

Quite a number of Nigerians have risen on the shoulders of religious, ethnic, or regional sentiments, which very often they help to massage, to positions of political and social influence or power. And because the masses have refused to outgrow such manipulations those manipulative leaders have continued to threaten their commonwealth. Private fights of those […]

  As usual, the release of the annual Corruption Perception Index (CPI) made screaming headlines internationally – which is good. Countries were graded according to their seeming progress in the fight against corruption – from where gainers and losers emerged. This time, Nigeria was one of the countries that lost just a point, falling from […]

Mr. Gwnfor Evans MP, the great Welsh politician, lawyer and author and the leader of Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, for no less than 36 years before he passed on in 2005, made the following historic and profound observation many years ago. He said, ” ‘Britishness’ is a political synonym for ‘Englishness’ which extends […]

It’s an indisputable fact that the art of governance, be it law making, implementation and interpretation of the law, is a serious business in sane climes because of its desired effect on the generality of the people whose safety and welfare is the sole purpose of government, but unfortunately and sadly, the opposite is the […]

Dear Editor, Nat Geographic, I am a great fan of your magazine, National Geographic, and your sister platform, National Geo Wild, and your coverage of natural history, particularly the behaviour of animals in the wild. I must commend you and your organization for the high level of commitment, attentiveness to details and professionalism consistently and […]

Participants at a symposium held recently in  Lagos unanimously   agreed that common sense has a limit in public leadership and should not be the sole requisite for public leadership consideration; a position that supports sound education as an indispensable ingredient for achieving a people-purposed leadership. The symposium which had as its theme; Leadership And Performance In […]Read More

I am inviting our country’s popular-democratic forces, especially the Nigerian Left, to join me in looking back once again. We have to look as the Nigerian state and the various fractions, factions, groups and blocs of the ruling class now begin to take the country through another political turbulence that will end in a reconstitution […]

The phone rang and it was Bimbola on the line calling from the popular network CHANNELS TV. She asked if I could participate in the February edition of The Core. I promptly agreed. The subject, the now world famous herds men/farmers clash, was, as they say, right up my alley both as a reporter and […]

Jimoh Moshood, the current Police Public Relations officer in Abuja is probably the most unprofessional occupier of that office since 1999. His lack of professionalism and ready capacity to perpetually say the wrong thing at the right time is the reason why he should be relieved forthwith of that important position. He obviously loves the […]