Opinion

I recall series of incidents I had been involved in, in the course of my nearly 40 years career as a journalist, similar to the encounter between Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK), a politician…

  By Omazino Omokioja Uzezi The clamour for the mandate of the Delta State electorate is, to say the least, on the high gear as political gladiators align and re-align to ensure the…

            Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, always has a lot to say about poor governance, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and civil liberties. He has written tons of rabid essays criticizing the government of…

Femi Fani-Kayode makes conceit solemn. He is the sui generis of narcissism. His arrogance dovetails with his foul temper and cutting tongue. There is no shade of modesty, temperance and…

A republic, Madam, if you can keep it — Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia, 1787, when asked what the Constitutional Convention had proposed The question that Franklin answered 233 years ago overshadows every other issue in the…

Matthew Aremu Okikiola Olusegun Obasanjo – one man, one name, one destiny; complicated personality. For the Yoruba, names hold special meanings and are categorised into five, namely:…

A crisis that needs a critical intervention also calls for a crucial comprehension.  The seven-member special visitation panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the crisis at…

IN the run-up to the 2020 Edo gubernatorial election, the major players are the incumbent governor, Godwin Obaseki who is contesting under the Peoples Democratic…

In Nigeria, oil is definitely the apple of our eyes — we don’t need to argue over that. But this piece of news should set us thinking once again: Apple, the American tech company, is now worth over $2 trillion. By…

Corruption is a cankerworm that has eaten very deep into the fabric of Nigeria for decades. It is a disturbing state of affairs that forced the Catholic Bishop Conference of Nigeria,…

Let me give the background to this piece. I was reading some comments on Twitter early in the week, when I ran into this one by one Dr Ben Gbenro: “Why are some people…

I sat in my corner observing the spats generated by the former President’s remarks on the death of late senator and controversial politician, Buruji Kashamu (aka Esho Jinadu).…

Nine months after the curtains were drawn on the Bayelsa governorship polls, the electorate still can’t be too sure who they voted for or who will be governor. Lawyers have become…

Is the church an enterprise? Yes. Is the church a place of spiritual alliance with the creator? Yes. Naturally, the church as an industry should be detached from incorporeal…

BY CHRIS OKOTIE The sacrilege of veiled congregation, I bring you greetings and salutations. My name is Reverend Chris Okotie. I am the Shepherd Superintendent of the Household of God Ekklesia.  In my last elocution, I expounded…

By Amir Stepak “They need that money in order to have the post office work so it can take all of these millions and millions of ballots. If they don’t get those two items,…

“Sorry about your man” “Thank you” “You know I used to think that this COVID-19 thing is a kind of scientific joke, but now I am beginning to take it seriously.” “How can you say that? It is people like you who mislead the public. I…

By I.E. Ogheneakpobo Politics is looked at in a broad sense as the struggle to secure the power of governance, while those who converge to form political parties with manifestos  are politicians. Politicians while…

Dr Obadiah Mailafia, a former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), shook the airwaves recently when he told a radio station that a northern governor is the commander of Boko Haram. He also said the terrorists…

As you probably know, there are about 10 jets in Nigeria’s presidential fleet. In the run-up to the 2015 elections, they were of considerable anger to the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC),…

I have never been passionate about any Nigerian politician after Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Alhaji Lateef Jakande, as I am currently, of Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Asiwaju of Lagos and the Jagaban of Borgu. I practice and play…

By Umair Haque It’s hard to express — let alone process, grapple with, grasp — the scale of death that’s taken place in America. As a result not just of a deadly pandemic — but of…

The US Democratic party has just selected a former Attorney General of California, a former District Attorney of San Fransisco and a junior Senator representing California, a…

For decades, I had known him as a politician, businessman, and media entrepreneur. His reputation was as impressive as his height. But my first close contact with Mallam…