Opinion

Chioma is having troubles with her mother-in-law. I know because she made it headline news on her social media page. She does not share her concerns with the other party in the nuptial contract or with a trained…

Perhaps one of the perplexing paradoxes about the Nigerian condition is the inordinate, if not pathological fixation of the country’s political elites on politics as the only process that matters in interrogating the “National…

Permit me to use the popular lingo now in town in the headline of this piece. I hear the younger generation talk of las las, when they speak of a final situation or position.…

An age-long aphorism says it is man’s to propose but God’s to dispose. The timeless saying found expression in the outgoing year as the much hyped…

I finally watched the trending video about the boy that was abused in boarding house and having read all the arguments for and especially against boarding school i…

One of the legacies the President Muhammadu Buhari administration is sure to leave behind, is the fact that it had dealt a deadly blow on fake activism and obtaining funds under false pretences of holding government…

For a long time, since the days of the military, we have been hearing Vision 2020. Anytime that year is mentioned, we wave it by as just another year that…

The rebirth of a soul in another body is a simple explanation of what reincarnation stands for. As recent observations have shown, it seems “molue” is back in another form.…

I was not fortunate enough to meet Dapo Ojora from childhood days; we met later in life. Ours was therefore purely an adult friendship. The beauty…

Anthony Kila questions the rationale behind the demand by the National Communication Commission for a National Identification Number as the only criteria to operate a functional telephone line in Nigeria…

Apprehension. Relief. Apprehension again. My emotions went full cycle in seven days. The abduction of 344 students of Government Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina state, had whipped up a frightened feeling of déjà…

What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics and politicians do with us in Nigeria, should I…

Recently, a CNN report introduced into the public domain its own conclusion on the EndSARS Lekki Toll Gate incident in Lagos State. The tragedy of the story is the ‘investigative journalism’ toga ascribed to it.…

As the political permutations and momentum gathers steam for 2023, the presidential field is expanding as usual and it is being speculated that we may have the following politicians vying for the top prize: Nyesom…

SIR: The infamous “health issues” and the fainting-syndrome in courtrooms by Nigerian politicians that have been indicted for corruption is not only theatrical,…

If you take time to study Nigeria since 1960 — when we began to govern ourselves — you would notice an unrelenting constant: bloodshed. From political violence to coups, civil war, ethno-religious riots, communal clashes,…

Without raising as much as a finger – or his voice – APC Merger Leader Bola Ahmed Tinubu has a mega project to show his people as ‘dividend of democracy’ towards 2023: the completed and inaugurated Lagos-Ibadan Modern Rail…

President Donald Trump has made one thing painfully clear: After he grudgingly leaves the White House, he will keep doing what he can to stay in the news. He will tweet insults and conspiracy theories. He may start his…

Since February when ASUU commenced the on-going industrial action, there have been many calls and cries to the union to sheathe its sword and return to the classroom. Among such calls, one seems to always…

I will lead a war against them (Nigeria) like Ojukwu. I’m not joking, I know I’m on air, and I am warning them now. Any attempt to rob us the way they rob our brother…

In the last few days, there has been a staccato of discordant voices about the CNN report on the Nigerian #EndSARS protests. As a newspaper with an avowed mission statement to raise our pen in the defence of…

In my previous article, I tried to remind us of what we have always known and talked about: that oil boom flatters to deceive. The world is, meanwhile, desperately looking for alternatives to crude oil — with…

THE debate on which zone produces Nigeria’s president in 2023, which is not new, has gained gravitas with the defection of Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to…

The hypocrite minimises his own flaws and makes allowances for imperfections while homing in on and exaggerating the problems of another. We have an even distribution of hypocrites among all sections of the country. But…