Opinions

The nationwide demonstrations in which hundreds of Nigerians took to the streets in major cities to protest the prevailing economic hardship, high cost of living and government handling of economic crisis in the country should be a wake-up call to President Buhari and his APC government to stop whining and concentrate on the business of […]

Life and death are two things that every human being needs to be referred to as mankind. Except for the controversies over Jesus’ life, no man born has ever been argued to live forever. No number of years lived by man would be enough for him to accept death willingly. It is even an axiom […]

The raging feud between the Senate and the Presidency over the latter’s call for the upper legislative chamber to reconsider its decision rejecting the appointment of Ibrahim Magu as substantive chairman of the anti-graft agency, the EFCC as well as that of Babachir Lawal, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, is a major […]

At a two-day conference organized by the International Dialogue Centre (KAICIID), an inter-governmental organization that promotes dialogue to build peace in conflict areas, the Sultan of Sokoto, in a veiled reference to the recent calls on Christians by Christian leaders to defend themselves against the unabated and murderous attacks of genocidal magnitude by Islamist Boko […]

These are indeed strange times. These are times when the rule of the thumb has become the normal. And nothing we know is as it should be. For the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), you cannot be sure what is right and what is not as they are determined by variables outside the reasoning of […]

Even as the hearts of Nigerians bleed for the victims of the tragic error after a Nigeria Air Force jet accidentally bombed a refugee camp in Borno State, killing nearly one hundred people including soldiers and aid workers of the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF), the decision by President […]

Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you. We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people. Together, we will determine the course of America and […]

The lamentation by the General Overseer of Jubilee Christian Church International, Rev. Kunle Adesina, that some clerics no longer strive for God’s anointing, but give priority to primitive accumulation and material aggrandizement, is understandable given the unbecoming behavior of preachers who flaunt stupendous wealth and live flamboyant and ostentatious lifestyles that do their sacred calling […]

“Happy New Year, my brother” “What do you mean happy new year, more than two weeks into the New Year. Have I not been in touch with you since January 1?” “But for you the New Year has just started. Your January 1 was not on January 1” “Looks like you have started taking something. […]

After weeks of paying lip service to the killings in Southern Kaduna, President Buhari seemingly woke up from slumber, with a series of executive fiats to security agencies on the need for “strong action” to deal with the sustained and systemic violence perpetrated by marauding Fulani herdsmen in Southern Kaduna. In the face of negligence […]

The needless altercation between the presidency and Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose over the N5,000.00 Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) paid by the federal government to the poor under the Social Investment Program (SIP) could have been avoided if Nigeria as a country had a functional social security system or safety net for the unemployed, elderly […]

In reaction to the suggestion that the people of Southern Kaduna should defend themselves from mass murder and genocide given the fact that their state government has refused to protect them a political advisor to Governor Nasir El Rufai wrote the following in an essay titled “Kaduna Shall Be Great Again”. He wrote: ”The greatest […]