Opinion

On 6th February 2014 the leader of IPOB and the lion of the East, my friend and brother Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, said the following, “As they campaign vigorously for elections, you would think, they are coming to grow the economy, enthrone justice, breed unity and tolerance, love for one another. …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent promise to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years is a tall order that requires critical thinking and more details about implementation strategy for service delivery. The target can only be achieved if government adopts a different socio-economic model. Unfailing commitment and resolve …

Whether the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai, failed to think through his statement last Tuesday condemning Nigerian military troops who are on the frontline of fighting the Boko Haram insurgency or he was just being magisterial like all bosses do, the import and symbolism of that waffling condemnation, …

Appointment of ministers is a constitutional requirement and should be seen as such; it is not an avenue to reward party faithful, appointing friends or incompetent persons into such very demanding offices. Section 147(1) of the Construction 1999 (as amended) provides that there shall be such offices of ministers as …

Following the inauguration of the 9th National Assembly, Assistant Editor, Dare Odufowokan, reports that Nigerians have some specific expectations the new leadership of both the Red and Green chambers must strive hard to fulfil Following their emergence as the Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives respectively, the …

ON the face of it, Nigeria qualifies to be called an emerging democracy. We just celebrated 20 years of uninterrupted civil rule with transition from government to government facilitated by elections no matter how flawed. We have a functioning, albeit high maintenance, parliament in place and the wheels of justice …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent alarm over a perceived Fulanization and Islamization of Nigeria by the Fulani ethnic group raised dust, and rightly so, because of the apparent incursion of the nomadic tribe into Southern Nigeria. Obasanjo’s statement elicited much political and religious concern and was perceived in some quarters …

Glowing tributes and encomiums must never be denied Nigerian leaders of all shades in the early phase of our struggle for freedom, and particularly, for the resistance they mustered against slave trade and colonial domination. Of course, there were elements from within whose levels of political consciousness and patriotism were …

This week, I was prepared to write on one of those ‘national topics’ as we often do when I received a post on ‘whether Ondo State is jinxed,’ forwarded by one of my big brothers, Uncle Eric Teniola, who hails from Ondo state. The thought-provoking brief triggered this article on …

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent comments on the excruciating poverty in the country to the extent that the situation has made him uncomfortable should not be ignored as a discussion point on poverty reduction strategy in the country he leads at the moment. The president’s remarkable comment on implications of poverty …