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Having suffered from several religious, ethnic and political violence over the years, violence in Nigeria has taken an unanticipated dimension since 2009 with the off shoot of the fundamentalist...
If you have watched the short documentary “Fueling Poverty” by Ishaya Bako you must be smarting in disbelief as to how we have managed to deteriorate as a nation with an abundance of...
“What does farewell mean if not death? But will death itself be a farewell?”-  Honore de Balzak
Is it true that the Ministry of Niger Delta is gathering another bunch of people: “The Niger Delta Council for stakeholders”, to be commissioned in Uyo, Akwa Ibom state on the 25th of...
Nigerian politicians are validated by corruption. A system is as good as the people who operate the system. The unholy alliance between the legislature and Aso Rock presents a reliable compass for a...
The residents of the Omotowoju in Ibadan are still counting their lost after the inferno that gutted the area yesterday.
•    A meeting of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund recently took place in Washington DC •    Nigeria’s  Coordinating...
There is no longer a pretence about the 2015 general elections. Until recently, even when the indications were rife that President Jonathan’s men were already working for the 2015 elections,...
With all due respect to Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State whose sweeping statements on the capability of Nigerians to stage a revolution were as fallacious as they were repugnant and flippant,...
Chinua Achebe was well known throughout the thirty-six states of the federation and even beyond. His fame rested on solid personal achievements via his writings.
When I wrote an open letter to the Coordinating Minister in Charge of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, over appointments to some top positions, it was, to me, simply the...
"Femi, you have come again with your jokes," she said on that faithful afternoon when I invited her to become the running mate to the gubernatorial candidate of the Action Congress in Ekiti...