Opinion

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

BY USSIJU MEDANER The petition filed by Atiku Abubakar of the PDP in the just-concluded presidential elections is fraught with inconsistencies which bring to mind question of its veracity and

Sitting on a pyramid of wealth exceeding $10bn, Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, shouldn’t be worried by poverty. In fact, if Dangote decides to line his path and walk on

As a journalist, two stories have shaken me in the course of the inconclusive 2019 elections (elections are not conclusive in Nigeria until the courts say they are). First was

I ran for the Office of the President of Nigeria in the 2019 elections, campaigning across 30 states of the country in a grueling 12-month marathon of road trips and