Month: May 2014

Last week, as families of the over 200 secondary school girls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Borno State grieved and the masses longed for answer from the authorities, while a...

In a commendable gesture last week, politicians of all persuasions offered their commiserations to Vice President Namadi Sambo over the death of his younger brother, Captain Yusuf Sabo Sambo. Many...

The national conference entered a critical stage last week with delegates in various committees pushing suggestions on how to address the myriad challenges facing the country’s democracy. Various standing committees,...

In 2007, you embarked on this kind of campaign, then you were just an aspirant. Now as a governor, you are going through the process again. What has changed? I...

The  scramble for the governorship ticket is getting interesting by the day. But the quest appears so vague and uncertain for the aspirants and the observers alike that none of...

On the Nigerian Public Security Communications System Project Contrary to popular belief that the Public Security Communications System was simply meant to provide CCTV cameras in Abuja and Lagos, it...

Oh Nigeria, how I feel sorry for you. They burn your cities, kill your citizens, rape your women, steal your children, pillage your lands, insult you openly, desecrate your holy...

In Harmattan Haze on an African Spring, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka condemns the notion that any of the major civilisations occurred in a vacuum. Most often, especially as it relates...

“I have not come to receive a chieftaincy title, no; I have come to celebrate with the people of Oduma because God has eventually heard their cries”  –– Sen. Ike...

It appears the choice has been made. Babatunde Fashola (SAN) now has a potential successor with whom he has some issues. The Christians seem to have had their say and...