Opinion

On June 14, 1964, at the Epe General Hospital, Lagos, the cry of a new life pierced the anxious maternity ward. It was that of a boy child. A…

The year 2021, marked twenty years of GSM operation in Nigeria. Two decades ago, NITEL was the king of telecommunications in Nigeria. Then, one of the major signs of…

I would say the campaign for Biafra has never been this intense since the end of the Nigerian Civil War in 1970. Although the Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB),…

To my understanding, I may be naive, both of the current political gutsy in Kano may be facing similar political doom. Both have had enough field days of public dirty linen…

Not a few were surprised when the calls for Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, to declare his interest to run in the 2023 presidential elections began to gain momentum.…

Just as well Twitter is temporarily off.  It would have staged the maniacal roasting of the latest “Satan” in town, on the irreverent altar of social media, simply because…

Is a critic oathed to only hunt for faults? Should he be impervious to hope, optimism and positivity or should he be amenable to fairness, truth and sanguinity – even if the…

We should thank the God of all comfort whose grace enabled the recent interviews our president granted two television stations shortly before the Democracy Day’s speech, yesterday. I would like to join the…

SENATOR Bola Ahmed Tinubu held his last political office in 2007 when he completed his tenure as the second civilian governor…

Public debate in Nigeria, permit me to say, is not as educative as you would find in many civilised societies. The predominant elements here are ethnic and religious…

By Femi fani-kayode “Africans do not celebrate great men. They rather take delight in celebrating mediocre men. Africans happily…

President Muhammadu Buhari’s suspension of Twitter’s operation in Nigeria has generated a groundswell of reactions, largely negative. This is because Twitter is one of the most widely used micro-blogging…

Nigeria’s democracy is under attack. What is happening is beyond the occasional acts of post-election violence which often lead to the vandalisation of the offices and facilities of the Independent National…

When news broke last week that the Accountant General of the federation told members of the National Assembly that the £4.2 million returned Ibori loot has been paid to the Delta state government, news…

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, popularly called BAT, is a master strategist, generalissimo, who has dominated the politics of Nigeria’s…

“He may not be that different from the incumbent in terms of economic ideology (he is also a statist at heart), but what we do know about a Tinubu presidency is that it will be inclusive. A mercantile, monetised, morally…

It appears the Southeast part of Nigeria learnt nothing from the civil war. Who invites the grim reaper to his own home? Who brings death and destruction…

When the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) said it was suspending fresh passport applications in order to clear the backlog, the first question that jumped…

By Rafiu Ajakaye One interesting takeaway from the American presidential democracy is the undying culture of people marking the…

Nigeria is on the edge. This view, a lot of people will agree on. From the glaring insecurity challenges and the secessionist agitations, to the…

On the heels of the resolutions by the 17 Southern governors in Asaba, Delta State, emphasizing devolution of powers, the People’s…

By Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode On Sunday, May 23, 2021, Dr. Ajoke Murtala Muhammed the wife of the late Head of State, General…

According to Mallam Abubakar Malami, LLB, BL, the attorney-general of the Nigerian federation, minister of justice, senior advocate of Nigeria and member of the Nigerian bar, banning open grazing is the rough…

Since the suspension of the Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala-Usman, the need to draw attention to her various alleged infractions that led to her removal from office has…