Opinion

By Muftau Gbadegesin SIR: For Hushpuppi — the Nigerian Instagram fugitive — an abrupt end came to his flamboyant lifestyle on June 10. He was a famed fraudster who flaunts…

Niger Delta leaders are the curse of Niger Delta- a region blessed by God but cursed and turned into a scotched land by her privileged leading lights. The ongoing…

There is no executive or administrative corruption without civil partnerships. What we often see on the surface as corruption in government agencies is deeply tap-rooted — with…

Award winning cartoonist, Mustafa  Bulama of the Daily Trust Newspapers on Sunday, in a cryptic rendering depicted the state of the rot in the Niger Delta, in a graphic masterpiece…

In a federal system of government, you have the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary as “co-equal” arms of government. Each has its own distinct, constitutionally defined functions. The legislature debates and makes laws, the…

Even while awaiting the forensic audit, the gory details of the criminal waste in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), can be likened to an incestuous rape. Of…

By Adegbenro Adebanjo Let it be stated from the onset that the angst is not against the humongous mouthwatering prizes totaling N85 Million earmarked for the winner of big…

By Umair Haque There’s no other way to say it, so let me just speak frankly. Thanks to Donald Trump’s stunning lack of leadership, America’s in a state that can only be described as free…

If taking public money was considered such a big deal, according to Joy Nunieh’s account, her colleague confessed he would kill anyone at the instruction of Godswill Akpabio before bothering…

So one renegade reporter began spewing some lies about the Vice President last week but what Nigerians know about the impeccable integrity and unquestionable character of Prof. Yemi…

Although 14 political parties nominated candidates for the forthcoming governorship election in Edo State, the contest is essentially a rematch between Governor Godwin Obaseki and…

By Victor Mayomi Lately, the National Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC)- Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has been assaulted on all sides because of his perceived ambition to…

The objective of communication is, indisputably to attain a desired result; definitely for it to serve the purpose for which it is designed, intended or planned, positive or negative.…

Is the federal government’s war against corruption in Nigeria no longer the causa proxima for the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime or what? Or is that Nigerians don’t…

By Hendrix Chukwudi As the clock ticks towards 2023, the Nigerian political class is not leaving anything to chance as the political undercurrent swells up by the day, in alignments…

Some people never learn but I will tender to them a word of sound advice in the hope that some degree of civility and good sense will find its way to them. It is not…

On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari discharged the ritual of signing the revised budget into law. That, we know, is the easiest part of the job. The projected expenditure for 2020 is now N10.8 trillion — curiously more…

I read this piece with keen interest, as it followed the tradition of some critics who closely watch developments in the Nigerian political scene and are quick to fit emerging events in pigeon holes they had previously created.…

If you have ever found it hard to sleep because of nightmares filled with enemies you cannot identify, filled with all kinds of abuses, filled with pleas for help harkened to by…

“For the innocent, the past may hold a reward, but for the treacherous it's only a matter of time before the past delivers what they truly deserve." - Emily Thorne Ibrahim…

I don’t know if the detained acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu, grew up (like some of us) reading the novels of English writer René Brabazon Raymond, who wrote under…

By Fredrick Nwabufo How much progress has Nigeria made with its ethnic-motility politics? Since 1999, we have had presidents of different ethnic extractions – Yoruba, Fulani, and Ijaw –…

‘’It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,’’ a source in the thick of things told me regarding the “arrest” of Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC chairman,…

The Nigerian House of depravity that could not manufacture solution to our problem of insecurity was caught last week speaking with an overtone of arrogance, conquest and…