By Osmund Agbo On May 2, 2011, a few minutes past 1:00 a.m. Pakistan Standard Time, a US Navy SEAL Team Six left the Bagram Air Base, in the Parwan Province of Afghanistan and headed for the compound...
The founding fathers of politics in Nigeria came with some ideals girding them. To begin with, one would discover that almost all of them were lawyers while those who were not lawyers were people with...
I read a tweet recently. It said, “Party politics will be the death of us in Nigeria”. I smiled. This was not the first time I was hearing something similar. I have heard analysis on how party politic...
Sometimes, one is forced to repeat himself over and over again simply because that is what the facts dictate. I cannot remember how many times I have prefaced my articles with the phrase that Nigeria ...
The Igbo are loyal, giving and unwavering. They have a predilection for going to the grave with a corpse if need be. They are a dependable ally. If you have the Igbo as a consociate, you have an ...
By this time in 2015, the governing All Progressives Congress (APC), had become the toast of Nigeria’s voting populace. Buhari was the man to beat, and a beautiful bride at that, having made national ...
Boboye Olayemi Oyeyemi could not have wished for a more fitting conclusion to his public service career. Thirty four years ago, he enlisted into the nascent Federal Road Safety Corps, (FRSC), specific...
By Reuben Abati I stumbled on a story in the Nigerian media which says that the National Assembly is planning to consider no fewer than 63 bills for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, col...
The Senate rose from its long self-induced slumber last week to give a complacent President Muhammadu Buhari six weeks to wake up and tackle rising insecurity in the land or be thrown under the bus. S...
Some months back, I had separate meetings with the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy and the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) during which...
