Opinion

Power. It excites and incites. It can excite hope and strength, or incite tension, hate and bitterness. Why should the regional background of the next president be a vexatious…

Politics without principle, a former Indian anti-colonial nationalist, Mahatma Gandhi, once described as a deadly sin. He though listed six other human…

Come to think of it, I have spent the past 18 years campaigning for restructuring, although not along ethnic lines. My campaign has been three-fold: (1) restructuring…

It’s amazing what partisan reporting can do to a distressed nation. The reports that came out of the request by the Presidency to the senate for the $4.9Bn loans chose to headline it…

They came to free the people from oppression. The Taliban of Igboland. Their motto is Freedom, Justice and Peace. Another piece of colourful rhetoric. Freedom, but not of expression. Justice…

There are two tough positions in Nigeria’s public service whose incumbents deserve tons of public sympathy. The chairmanship of the Independent National Electoral…

The evolution of Nigerian federalism has undergone major genetic variations in the last 20 years, but the war that has just broken out over the value-added tax (VAT) may become the…

Fellow Nigerians, I’m back again with my epistle this week. As we inch closer to another monumental and hopefully defining election, I need to sound this note of warning in…

When President Buhari’s tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria comes to an end on May 29, 2023, he will be leaving office with a much bigger following in the Southeast…

An average reader of this column may not be far from being correct if he summarizes my writings as expression of anger against all that is wrong with Nigeria, dedicated to…

On August 17, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), joined the ranks of Octogenarians. And even among that lucky species in Nigeria, a few elder statesmen stand out; that’s the group…

The rise of remote work has significantly impacted how Agile teams operate. Traditional Agile methodologies, which emphasize face-to-face collaboration and communication, must adapt to the challenges and opportunities of a distributed work…

At the centre of separatist campaigns in Nigeria, and possibly around the world, is the desire to have “homogenous” nations, or nations where an ethnic group is overwhelmingly…

The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war drowning the initial applause that greeted the order for the financial probe of the corruption riddled interventionist agency - the Niger…

The fear of ethnic domination is as old as Nigeria. Mutual recriminations and suspicion have been the scourge of Nigeria’s cohesive development. The south-east says it is the north, and the north points the finger back; the…

In the coming days, the National Executive Committee, NEC, of Peoples Democratic Party, will be appoint a chairman and other members of the National Zoning Committee for…

1. After the 2-term presidency of General Muhammadu Buhari, the general expectation is that power will return to the South in 2023. The ruling All Progressives Congress (#APC) has confirmed its zoning of the presidency to…

Plateau state is back in the news again — and for the usual tragic reasons: maiming and killing in the name of God. In the last eight weeks, over 100 lives have been…

The last six years must have been the toughest one for anyone who is of the Fulani ethnic stock in Nigeria. Governor Samuel Ortom has, in words and actions, made being a Fulani a burden on account of the distasteful…

It is both sad and disheartening to observe the construct that some people try to give certain developments in the country. And that came out in bold relief in this week’s…

It is my deduction that fake news is fecundated by prejudice; prejudices whether ethnic, political or religious. Nigeria’s social media dome is a hang-out…

Have you heard the news? The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) signed by President Muhammadu Buhari is the most anti-Niger Delta legislation in history, conceived and designed to…

By FEMI ADESINA The country has been agog this week with fallout from the signing of the long-awaited Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) into law. That…

Over the past weeks, we have seen hundreds of members of the dreaded Boko Haram sect come out of their hideouts to surrender to the troops of Nigerian Army and more are still…