Opinion

By Azu Ishiekwene The Sarkin Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II, always wanted to be local. Even in his heyday as governor of the Central Bank, he said he was often amused

By Mike Awoyinfa SHETTIMA GLORY might as well be the title of a book.  A leadership book telling the story and the glory of Kashim Shettima, a man who did not

By Louis Odion, FNGE It is perhaps a measure of the ethical pestilence ravaging the land today that Cecilia Ibru too has suddenly recovered her voice to rail and rant against

By Owei Lakemfa. In my first year at the University of Ife (Now OAU) a ‘National Sailing’ by a secret confraternity was scheduled for the campus. On the eve, the

By Sam Omatseye Far be it from me to dabble into definitions of Malam El Rufai as a short man driven by fear. I will not denigrate his gubernatorial “briefness”

The performance of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa State, at the recently concluded Presidential, National and State House of Assembly elections can be said to be phenomenal, considering

By Jiti Ogunye In the Trans-Atlantic slave trade era, slave raiders, called “ ipata” used to harvest people on footpaths and on farms in the Yoruba heartland. Their preference were

The world is getting richer and the poor, poorer. This was  a major lamentation  in  May Day commemoration  in many countries as workers marched across the globe egged on mainly

This headline appears rhetorical, coming from a new political appointee but behold, it is not.  Rather, it is a soul-searching question which I asked myself after seeing the torrents of