Opinions

Like a lingering, tiresome bad dream that refuses to go away, the mystery over the 219 girls abducted from their dormitories in Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok, Borno State, on April 14, 2014 re-opened wounds of despair and haunted passions, after a video emerged showing 15 of the girls – the first concrete indication […]

I read an interesting article recently in which the author, objecting to President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent travels abroad pointed out that Presidential spokespersons since 1999, including this writer, have always justified such trips using essentially the same arguments. The fellow quoted copiously and derisively from my State House press statements and an article by me […]

As Nigeria grapples with a crisis of leadership, it is quite disheartening that almost a year after taking office, the Buhari-led APC government, is yet to make a dent in resolving the insecurity, epileptic power, acute fuel scarcity, mass unemployment, poverty and other daunting challenges facing the nation. Their modus operandi of making excuses and […]

No doubt, since1999 when former President Olusegun Obasanjo established the two anti-graft agencies in the country, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) and the Economic anf Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), impunity in government has been reduced. To an extent, it has brought sanity and due process to government. Many have been […]

There is no other way to put it, our normally impressive Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo is very wrong on his position on the Value Added Tax (VAT) which he considers as rather low and therefore plans to increase. The VP’s position is not new.  I suspect it resonates with a number of people in […]

The Presidency may have risen in stout defence of Oil Minister, Ibe Kachikwu over the vituperative aspersions cast on him by APC leader, Bola Tinubu, but let them be under no illusion that Nigerians have been mightily insulted and to say the nation is disappointed with the change-promising APC government over the perennial fuel crisis […]

Where corruption is involved, African leaders seem to be utterly beyond shock.  Blacks folks in office often regard as normal business, the kind of infractions that draw alarm and apologetic resignations in other parts of the world.  This is not meant to be a racist comment, but it is curious that the African sense of […]

It was hardly surprising that the names of some Nigerian politicians, including Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Gen. T.Y Danjuma, Sen. David Mark and former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, appeared in the leak of confidential documents from one of the world’s most secretive companies, Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. The leaked files show how Saraki […]

Nigerian football is at a new low after the ignominious crash of the Super Eagles, in the qualification rounds of the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament scheduled for Gabon. The three-time African champions lost 0-1 to Egypt in the reverse fixture of their Group G match in Alexandria last Tuesday. The Eagles’ elimination […]

The disquieting news the other day that Nigeria occupies the unenviable global position of second and third in terms of the disease burden for HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) should put all citizens on alert, given the highly infectious nature of these deadly diseases. With 574,600 cases or 338 per 100,000 of the 170 million population, […]

Buhari’s recent apology to Nigerians over the illegal sacking of some vice chancellors presents a golden opportunity for another re-invention of the president. It should be recalled that the Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu had in February 2016 announced the sacking of the vice chancellors of 12 Federal Universities established by the Goodluck administration […]

On this anniversary of the 2015 general elections, Nigerians must examine all the factors that shaped or damaged political or ethical values, especially the colossal amounts spent and the hate speeches and foul language that characterized the campaigns. In fact the willful and flagrant violation of Sections 87 – 91 of the Electoral Act regulating […]