Opinions

If there was any time when President Buhari would see the atrocities of the marauding Fulani herdsmen as a national emergency, which poses a threat to national unity; that time is now. With the massacres and incessant clashes between herdsmen and farmers across the country, Nigeria appears headed for another crisis, this time on too […]

Over a year after his election on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the manner in which Delta State Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, has conducted the affairs of the state, in terms of governance and delivering the dividends of democracy, gives enough cause to worry about both his preparedness and capacity to deliver on […]

The former Governor of Lagos State and the incumbent Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji  Fashola SAN, gave one of the greatest speeches by any politician in Nigerian history on Friday 25th November, 2016  while  delivering lecture as the Guest Speaker at the 42nd Convocation Lecture of the University of Benin, at the Akin Deko […]Read More

Against the emerging consensus that lawmakers and their executive counterparts take so much from public coffers, with no such corresponding policy outcomes as could justify the squander, which to say the least, borders on criminality, President Buhari and his APC party cannot continue to be oblivious of the wishes and aspirations of Nigerians who elected […]

The recent request from President Buhari for legislative authorization for an external borrowing of almost $30bn is a sharp reminder that history truly moves in circles and that human memories are short.  It should be recalled that Africa’s debt overhang was partly blamed for why the1980s and the 1990s were regarded as lost decades for […]

The current economic crisis, an exposé on the predicted disabilities and inhuman dispositions of neo liberal policies, especially its role in developing economies just as it is in all sectors, seem to be one that will ignite, if it has not already ignited a revolt that will sure upturn global fortunes for the better. Not […]

Muhammadu Buhari promised to embrace democracy as president, but turned out to be the same autocrat who failed the country 30 years ago. It’s been a tough year for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. The mood in Africa’s most populous nation is a far cry from the euphoria that greeted his historic 2015 election — the […]

Amid the pervasive darkness and economic lull that has made Nigeria the heart of darkness inside the dark continent, the decision by the Senate Committee on Privatization to reject outright cancellation of power sector privatization, as being clamored, provides no basis for optimism that tomorrow would be better, even as Nigerians continue to pay more […]

As the curtain closed on the highly rated administration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State, following the inauguration of new Governor Godwin Obaseki and his deputy, Philip Shaibu, one major concern was what the change of baton portended for Edo state. Will the new team build on Oshiomhole’s much-acclaimed achievements or return to the […]

I read in utter shock and disappointment when our very revered literary icon, Prof Wole Soyinka openly threatened to destroy his American Green Card in protest of Donald Trump’s victory at the just concluded United States Presidential election which held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. I am also aware that Prof. Soyinka issued this threat […]

A coalition of vexed, angry and frustrated Nigerians under the aegis of #Occupy Unlimited & Be The Change Organisation# on Thursday demanded the removal of immunity clause from the constitution to pave way for the prosecution of the President and governors whenever they contravene the law and dip their hands in public purse. While protesting against the high profile looting […]Read More

Republican presidential candidate, Donald John Trump staged one of the most remarkable political upsets in American history; since at least 1948, to become the 45th elected president of the United States; in a stunning culmination of an explosive, populist and polarizing campaign that revealed the true character of America as a xenophobic, racist and divided […]