Opinion

It is about two years to the next general election in 2023, and already there is chaos, confusion and caustic rhetoric brought on by politics of conquest. It is…

With the rapid growth of digitisation today, technology seems to easily transform lives, especially in marginalised communities where resources are often limited. As a software engineer and tester, I have seen firsthand how our work can…

A pro-democracy advocate and human right activist, Comrade James Adeyemi, has taken a critical look at the political pedigree of the Honourable Minister of…

Recently, my perspective on Nigeria changed. I have never supported any separatist or secessionist agenda. However, I have supported and defended the right…

By Pakribo Telema-Daregoe It is not a common happenstance for me to write a tribute in honour of somebody. I am usually compelled to do so when I am fully involved either by…

When the news first flashed in the social media, announcing the capture of Nnamdi Kanu, the fugitive leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), and…

In the buildup to the imminent inauguration of a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, a loud cacophony of rather perplexing calls for…

The interception of Nnamdi Kanu and the storming of Sunday Igboho’s mansion last week were clearly and deliberately orchestrated by the…

I know he is an academic, a Professor and former Rector of Borno State College of Agriculture. He was also Commissioner for Reconstruction…

IN one of my early journalism classes, my teacher, Olatunji Dare, said nothing sells like a judicious mix of crime, sex and money. It’s well over 35 years since he said…

Speaking at the APC Caretakers Committee Executive meeting last Friday at the State House which has since its first inauguration on June 25, 2020…

Between the late Umaru Dikko and the now re-nabbed Nnamdi Kanu — any similarity?  That question must have pronged at the historic-minded, as the news of Kanu’s…

Nnamdi Kanu’s methods won Ndigbo fewer friends, and his vitriol enabled the worst of us to pass off as the face of Ndi Igbo, writes Cheta Nwanze…

Through his eccentric interventions and conversations, is ex-soldier and respected Islamic cleric, Sheik Abubakar Gumi, seemingly supporting the evolution of a rogue Nigerian…

Leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu had looked invincible. For years, the long arm of the law could not catch up with him. Kanu…

By Farooq Kperogi I’ve known since the beginning of the month that Nnamdi Kanu would be arrested and extradited to Nigeria, but my informant swore me to secrecy,…

Twelve years ago, in his Year 2010 budget presentation to the Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday, 3 November 2009, as Governor of Lagos State,…

Funny how we hardly reach any cross-ethnic consensus in this country, but the campaign for a return to the 1963 Constitution — increasingly becoming the backbone of the “restructuring” agenda — seems popular in…

IN incisive and pungent critiques of the ongoing consideration in the National Assembly of Executive Bills seeking to amend the Nigerian Press Council Act and the National Broadcasting Commission Act, the Nigerian…

Last Monday, the car in front of mine in slow moving traffic, was getting smashed and robbed as I sh** and peed in my pants all at once. And this traffic robbery was happening in broad daylight as police…

Did you watch the interview granted about 10 days ago by Labour and Employment Minister, Dr Chris Nwabueze Ngige, to Channels Television NewsNight program…

Something is going on that should be making the headlines but it is not. In March 2012, a company named Petro Union Oil & Gas Ltd filed a suit at the federal high court, Abuja, asking to be paid £2.556…

By Professor Lai Olurode “Nigerian Elites with their unpatriotism and self-centeredness coupled with their greed remain the bane of our development…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on January 30, 2019, at the annual business lecture of the Lagos Island Club delivered by a former…