Opinion

The menace of drug abuse and drug trafficking is doing far more harm than we could imagine, they’re like conjoined twins that cannot be separated. The number of Nigerian youth getting…

Now in the opposition, the PDP has since lost its bearing, not knowing how to proceed in the business of social agitation, of media propaganda and political activism. Founded in August, 1998,…

Over the last week or so, a lot’s been written about Britain. Its self-inflicted economic catastrophe, to be precise. The story so far goes like this: the new Prime Minister and her Chancellor…

May I herein solemnly bear witness that Nigerian politicians are geniuses at playing politics. They can scheme and strategise, manipulate and manoeuvre, plot and politick for 40 days and…

Each time I read of killings by gunmen in the South East, I go into the doldrums. I get mortified by the sheer waste of precious lives, the wantonness, malevolence and viciousness of it…

When the row between Rivers state governor, Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), spilt onto the streets after the party’s presidential primaries in May, that to…

“Of all bad men, religious bad men are the worst.” ~ C.S. Lewis YOU know it is strangely funny and ridiculous when those who have tirelessly waged a “holy war” of lies and propaganda against the…

Who wants a mob rule? It is off-putting when a miscellany of threadbare youths taken up in hate and seduced by ignorance unpack threats of violence and curses on people who differ with them on…

HOW many Bola…

When the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr Iyorchia Ayu referred to Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike and his fellow lone rangers as children, many people…

The seemingly ingrained tendency for human beings to so easily forget their antecedents, repay evil for good and seek to destroy those God chose to use as their benefactors never ceases to…

Before the 1999 presidential primaries, crisis engulfed the All Peoples Party (now part of the All Progressives Congress, APC) over the ambition of the late Dr Olusola Saraki. He was…

Could Bola Tinubu, presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), be that unifier a sundered Nigeria needs? What are his antecedents as regards respect for diversity and sensitivity to…

The story of the Rivers…

Twenty-four years ago today, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu would stand in Isolo, Oshodi LGA, to lead his campaign for governor. Standing before over 20,000 people at the former federal capital where he once…

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The assassination attempt on Senator Ifeanyi Ubah was another sign of how sick Nigeria has become. It also highlighted how the South-East that used to boast of not engaging in senseless killings…

Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, Governor of Rivers…

Through recent decades, and particularly over the past couple of years, one has been confronted by the notion of how everything in Nigeria has descended into the realm of politics, with so many now…

It is no longer news that the world’s longest ruling monarch from the British House of Windsor, Queen Elizabeth II, died at the ripe old age of 96 a few days ago. In the wake of her demise,…

As I was saying, assuming we elect a messiah as president, could he still fail to deliver the goods? In my previous article, I argued that Nigerian presidents fail, or fail to live up to…

Institutions are not without challenging moments. At this instant of an increasing political affliction in Nigeria, the local Catholic Church is cast in a predicament of two necessities: the duty…

QUEEN Elizabeth II’s exit from the mortal plane was bound to excite extreme sentiments because she personified the good, bad and ugly of our history. She was historically and politically our…

As things stand today in the political manoeuvres among the political aspirants in our country, who of the three leading presidential candidates stands the best chance of winning next year’s…