Opinions

The intrigues, suspense and drama surrounding the election of the National Assembly leadership could qualify as a movie thriller by a master story teller. Many predictions fell flat, pundits theorized only to wonder how they read it so wrongly, though a few got it right. But the high drama finds summary in the fact that […]

It may sound naïve, especially for a person who is obviously a partisan, but my concern and alarm have little to do with who won or lost in the National Assembly leadership elections palaver. Easy as this can be lost on the gladiators, we could be collectively sabotaging the poor ordinary people of Nigeria desperate […]

Though some Nigerians have applauded the immediate past Senate for passing the Sexual Offences Bill before its expiration, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to withhold his assent to the bill because it creates opportunity for the likes of Senator Sanni Yerima, a former governor from Zamfara. The private member […]

When I wrote the piece: ‘Tribute to Tinubu: A Parody of Shakespeare’ a few friends and colleagues said I was un-characteristically ‘patronizing’. Some wondered if I too had not fallen for the Tinubu ‘cult of the personality’; or as one of them put it ‘cult of the insatiable power-seeker’. And to quite a few of […]

Muhammad Buhari has been campaigning, running for the office of the President of Nigeria since 2003.  That is a long time – twelve years to be exact.  I don’t know anyone else in Nigeria who ran longer for consecutive years and times.  Buhari is also the only Nigerian who declared for the Presidency himself (as […]

It is fairly axiomatic that in any democracy, the media plays an indispensable role in creating, moulding and reflecting public opinion. Edmund Burke, the Irish-born philosopher and politician was said to have referred to the media as the Fourth Estate of the Realm in a parliamentary debate in 1787 on the opening up of press […]

The crisis of confidence in the All Progressives Congress (APC) resulting from the emergence of Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives on Tuesday, seem to be doing more damage to the party with Lai Mohammed, the party’s National Publicity, giving a hint that Saraki could be […]

The emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as the nation’s Senate President has pointed glooming and dooming parts for the vanquished nation. By their ascendant – Bukola Saraki, Ike Ekweremadu and David Mark – Nigerians’ conscious hope and crave to extricate themselves from the grip of legislative banditry, political corruption and virtual criminality has been dashed. […]

If Nigerians ever thought that nobility found its way into the nation’s high offices with the conduct of the last general elections, the unfolding drama in the National Assembly, has banished that thought. If Nigerians ever hoped that high offices would ennoble their occupants, the disgraceful conduct of some APC lawmakers who conspired to torpedo […]

Clearly, the heavy grime and dirt on Nigerian currency notes readily serve as vector for the spread of germs and diseases, particularly in an environment where the culture of regular hand washing is not well grounded. However, despite commendable progress in the adoption of                  E-transactions, cash handling still remains very popular regardless of the […]

The alarm bell sounded by Amnesty International on the vicious cycle of violence currently taking place in Nigeria is hardly surprising, coming as it were amidst the grotesque campaign of human savagery and barbarism by the murderous Boko Haram sect, responsible for the brutal killing of over 13, 000 persons till date. In its latest […]

     Prof Attahiru Jega, as far as I am concerned, is the hero of Nigeria’s democratic transition and the international community seems to share the same views. I wrote a piece published on march 12th, 16 days to the elections titled, “Prof Attahiru Jega: Hero of Nigeria’s Democratic Innovations-Needs Int’l Community and Progressives Support […]