Opinions

TWO eternal principles among humans to guide, guard, and order their lives- private and public- are morality and law. Morality depicts human behaviours and conduct which may be good or bad. In order to accept or approve those human…

I haven’t met the governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, before. My closest to ‘meeting’ him is seeing him speak on television. I also read stories about him in the print media. Until anointed governorship candidate of the All…

NIGERIA is an interesting country whose drama will not stop amazing the world. It is interesting that previous governments have been known to spew out policy statements and ideas as if they were going out of fashion. In most cases, these…

I was just informed a few minutes ago of the withdrawal of the appointment offered me as the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Nigerian Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan. I had hitherto enjoyed every of the diatribes provoked by…

“THE law is an ass” is a commonly used expression to convey the frustrations individuals experience with accessing justice. The metaphor of the stubbornness of the ass (donkey) refers to the very rigid application of the law. It has its…

SIR, congratulations on your victory at the polls. Your success, in a way, was a personal victory for me, as I was one of the many who prayed and worked for it. Your Excellency, your emergence, and that of Mr Raufu Olaniyan, as the governor…

“I don’t want to inflict the burden of my Sickle-cell disease on an innocent young bride,” my little brother once told me. However, as an Igbo man, the pressure to carry on the family name ultimately proved too much to withstand.  I’m…

I do not believe that a society can sustain its democratic claims if it allows its public office-holders to run two lives: an open public life and another jealously sheathed private one. At work, he or she is immersed in files, open for…

FOR a lot of reasons, the oil and gas sector is unlike the other sectors in the country. One, it accounts for the biggest revenues in the country and two, there are contending interests, a majority of which sees it as the nation’s cash cow…

SEYI Makinde, billionaire businessman and technocrat, came into the Oyo Governor’s Office on May 29, 2019 fully tried as gold. Unlike many of the emergency tenants in the corridors of power who strut the land making public office patent…