Opinion

A very rich man invited about 20 of his employees to his palatial abode in Texas, United States for his 60th birthday celebration sometime ago. The rich man told his workers that during the private party there would be a swimming…

The set theory is a commonsensical heritage of arithmetics. By defining a selection from a universe as a set, it makes value judgments that could relate to the mass. The Economist Intelligence Unit, the research arm of the highly…

It was former President Olusegun Obasanjo that, in recent history, touted the doctrine of a third force in Nigerian politics. In a fiery open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari last January, he shredded the incumbent’s performance…

I have had an interesting week reading the different shades of social-media reactions to my piececlassifying President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election supporters into nine groups. The most popular shade is that there are people…

Going through the numerous outputs of some bloggers in this part of the world these days could be as discouraging as they come as some of them appear to have lost focus. The challenge they pose is a tragedy of our time, when we thought…

Some years ago, I was at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra state, for a public lecture. An obviously popular lecturer was invited to the podium to make his contributions. Students went gaga, screaming his nickname and giving…

It is common among selfish people, when faced with the consequences of their inequities, to hold others responsible for their tribulations. Nigeria’s Senate President, Mr. Bukola Saraki, is one of those with acute disposition to hold…

If you want to get Nigerians excited to the highest level, start a discussion on politics. Whip up sentimental discussions on our political divides and see adrenalin in action. Our collective ecstasy is best stimulated by political…

Carpet-crossing, decampment, defection or whatever name it is couched has been part of our body politic for such a long time that its end is hardly conceivable. In plain language, it connotes the repudiation of a political platform one…

Today, family, friends and associates of Olorogun(Dr.) Oskar Christopher Eyovbirere Ibru, will roll out the drums to celebrate his attainment of the age 60.  It is necessary to declare an interest.  I am a great admirer of Oskar Ibru and…

As a general rule, it is expected that old age has the tendency to temper man’s proclivity to want to dominate others at all cost and by all means, and compels more sober and careful disposition before taking actions. But for former…

Last week, Adams Oshiomhole told us loud and clear what we all knew but which many people were either reluctant to admit, or say publicly. If it was a Freudian slip from the new garrison commander and chairman of the All Progressives…

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been gripped by a fever of cross-carpeting. Publicly, the party is saying it will not lose sleep. The most dramatic statement yet was by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai…

(By popular demand, this article first published on May 9, 2017 is republished in view of the bedlam that Apapa has become and the unconcern of the Federal Government towards rehabilitating the road. This cry will continue until the…

The ‘Molue’ is the omnibus farting fumes and pain on Lagos roads. It symbolises the innumerable privately-owned commercial buses seating 44 passengers with an indeterminable number of standing passengers cramming the aisle. The ‘Molue’ is…

At times, I could be mischievous. When security agents barricaded Government House, Ado Ekiti, ahead of the July 14 governorship election — and Governor Ayo Fayose released his hit single, “I’m in Pains” — a friend, with whom I had been…

With its many serpentine curves plus the fact it lies about one hundred and fifty metres atop a narrow ledge overlooking a deep ravine, a ride through the three-kilometre Milken Hill road can never seem like anything less than an…

Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has been in the eyes of the storm since the online newspaper Premium Times, broke the news of her alleged forgery of exemption certificate for the National Youth Corps Service Scheme (NYSC). The…

Far too many things break the heart about Nigeria but two of them take the cake. One is the inhibited selfishness of the country’s political elite while the other is the naivety or docility of the citizenry.  In a sense, these two are a…

In exactly two months less one day from today, two men will engage in a fight whose prize is the Osun State governorship seat. Actually, ‘fight’ puts it really mildly; elections in Nigeria are bitterly contested. With sights of…

“Those who vote determine nothing. Those who count (record, and announce) the votes determine everything” – Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union’s maximum dictator. MANY have described the Saturday, July 14th governorship election as the war of…

Anytime Senator Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, spoke about setting up a “national carrier”, I always switched off. Even though I like his ideas — and I still salute his single-mindedness in closing down the Nnamdi Azikiwe…

With the completion of Alisson Becker’s transfer to Liverpool for a world record fee for a goalkeeper for a stunning £67m approximately. It is fair to say that the football transfer market has gone nuts. Even worse is Southampton’s…

I am writing at 4am this morning with so much glee. The Ekiti elections have come and gone and a presumed winner has emerged. We have seen all sort of gloating especially the unfortunate one allegedly issued by the EFCC amongst others.…