Opinion

Barring any unforeseen circumstance, Odion Jude Ighalo will become a Shanghai Shenhua player at the end of the week. This comes as his loan deal with the Red half of…

It is tough being a Nigerian. Every aspect of the Nigerian life, from the existential to the political is charged with presumptions and assumptions and suspicion. Buying anything on the street attracts deep anxiety; appointing…

Just two months ago, Governor Hope Uzodinma was making waves in the media for election based reasons. To the surprise of Imo state indigenes, home and abroad, Governor Hope Uzodinma of the APC was announced as the rightful winner…

This morning I wrote a short article on the new head office building of the NDDC. I commended the Minister  of Niger Delta Affairs Senator Godswill Akpabio and the management of the NDDC for their zest in bringing the…

As things stand, N’Golo Kante will not play any part in Chelsea’s Premier League campaign should the Premier League return to action. Although I do not consider myself a sorcerer of…

Have you heard any of these statements before? They did not even give me any medication yet they said I had COVID-19. What they treated me for was malaria. Patients at isolation centres in Nigeria are eating, drinking and dancing…

In April 2015, barely two weeks after the presidential election when the then newly-formed All Progressives Congress (APC) was waiting to take over the reins of power…

On 20 May Donald Trump said that having one of the world’s worst coronavirus outbreaks was a “badge of honour.” What kind of idiot would think that having the highest death toll in a…

Next week, the Muhammadu Buhari administration would be exactly five years in office. Four full years of a first term, and one year accomplished in the second term of…

In the fight against COVID-19, the war between biology and economics has just expanded to the nationalist front, spilling over with the ferociousness of a zero-sum game. Madagascar President, Andry Rajoelina, believes that the…

“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. – William Shakespeare. This describes a campaign of calumny in the form of an old article in the 12th July, 2008, issue of The Sun newspaper making the rounds on…

Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections…

In the 1960s, when Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari was an A Level student at the King’s College, Lagos, the Yoruba students always had a good laugh anytime his…

*Trump’s America is Facing Unparalleled Economic Disaster By Umair Haque See that chart above? That’s the American economy, dying. It shows retail sales across the…

The social media is an exciting space, always buzzing with life. One moment, guys are swearing at one another, the next instant they are making peace amid unusual comradely. That is the…

Pay television company, Multichoice Nigeria, has dismissed reports that it is set to increase subscription rates for its DStv and GOtv packages from 1 June. The company…

Whatever public reaction Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari expected of his appointment as President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Of Staff (COS), he probably didn’t imagine the…

Let me start by giving due credit for this headline, which is not original to me. I lifted it from the 1983 song by reggae star, Peter Tosh, in the album titled Mama Africa. The song is Glass House, and it goes thus: “If…

According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, elites are groups of persons who by virtue of position or education exercise much power or influence. They are usually regarded as…

In a recent article in The Atlantic also widely used elsewhere, American journalist, Anne Applebaum, described the pathetic meltdown of US President Donald Trump,…

ON Sunday, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike demolished two hotels in Port Harcourt for allegedly flouting his executive order on lockdown. The state like many others is on a…

Idi Amin Dada was the Ugandan military officer who served as the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. During his reign as the President, he was ruthless, merciless, in fact, he was…

IN the Rivers front, COVID-19 appears to have birthed a severe strain of another gubernatorial virus.  So, it’s politic to ask: what ails Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike?  This question…

If the gods want to punish a people, they either   invoke plagues on the land or deploy agents of slaughter as leaders. The gods are not happy with Rivers state, obviously, hence the…