Opinion

His name has become a compelling brand in the Nigerian media circles. His face is known within and outside the shores of our land. But his persona, opinions and intentions are still an enigma even to those who have known him very closely over the years...

Last week, former head of state and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari warned that unless there is social justice in the country, Nigeria risks a revolution in the near future. LOUIS ACHI gauge...

President Goodluck Jonathan mid last week endorsed the House of Representative’s ad hoc committee report on the management of fuel subsidy. He also declared that no culprit would be spared. UCHENNA AWOM examines speculations that the president ma...

Last October, Zakariyya Isa, a cameraman with the Nigerian Television Authority was murdered by the Boko Haram. That was the first reported attack to have been targeting journalists. Isah was murdered in front of his house, shortly after leaving a mosq...

The rate of unemployment ravaging the country has not only become worrisome, but the situation has pushed many a Nigerian youth into petty businesses including manual car washing. These sets of youths engage in car wash job to keep body and soul togeth...

President Goodluck Jonathan is yet to complete one year in office of the four-year mandate given to him in 2011. However, tension is already amounting over whether he is eligible to contest in 2015 or whether power would return to the geo-political Nor...

Governor Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina, in this interview with Muazu Elazeh, speaks on what his administration is doing to ensure relative peace in the state and steps he has taken to move the state forward. Can you tell us some of the programmes you ...

Rituals and sacrifices in Africa, particularly in Nigeria are as old as the world itself. However, concerns have been expressed over the spate of ritual killings being recorded regularly in the country. Fred Itua and Chalya Dul examine this trend. Afri...

The Nigerian ambassador to Netherlands, Dr. Mrs. Nimota Akanbi, has been working hard to attract foreign investors to Nigeria. To achieve this she has led many great missions to Nigeria, the last being in March this year. Also, the Kwara State governor...

Gabriel Anate was in 200 Level when he joined a cult group. Speaking to LEADERSHIP WEEKEND he said, “Harassment and intimidation by cult guys got to me. I never set out to join them though I had friends who were members. And because I promised m...

In a world where survival is for the fittest, it is indeed a challenge for the disabled people trying to compete with able bodied people and a government that has no regard for their conditions. RUTH TENE, Abuja and Isaiah Benjamin, Kaduna spoke with s...

Recently, Kaduna State governor, Mr. Patrick Yakowa, was in Washington DC where he attended the Nigerian Investors’ Forum on Agriculture and the 2012 United States Exim Bank Conference. At the end of the events, the governor spoke with ABIODUN OL...

Inadequate sanitation impacts on everybody; from the greatest to the least. But, in spite of all these, a 5-day programme convened by the African Leadership Forum suggests sanitation coverage in Nigeria is extremely low. pembi stephen-david writes. In ...

More than two years after the Federal Government granted unconditional amnesty to militants in the Niger Delta and created avenues for the training and development of the youths, disgruntled groups of militias under the aegis of the Movement for the Em...

Ahead of deliberation on the petroleum subsidy probe report by the House of Representatives next Tuesday, EDEGBE ODEMWINGIE examines the intrigues that have trailed the release of the widely indicting report, amid reports of pressure on the committee t...