Opinion

OPINION: GENEVIEVE NNAJI AND THE AUDACITY OF HOPE

Genevieve Nnaji, Nigeria's most popular and sought after actress in the ever growing Nollywood industry have demonstrated over time that audacity and tenacity of hope coupled with the grace of God can bring one to an enviable place in...

OPINION: “THE SNAKES ARE EMITTING DANGEROUS VENOMS RATHER THAN KILL THEM; WE ARE SETTING UP COMMITTEES ON SNAKES” LOCAL ADAGE.

The easiest and most attractive national past time now seems to be buck passing especially with the bunch of leaders that we have, that can hardly peel a banana nor wash an already white handkerchief. Not many of us want...

OPINION: AKPABIO’S “UNCOMMON TRANSFORMATION” AND THE SUFFERING OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN AKWA IBOM STATE

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If there is a class of civil servants in Akwa Ibom State that have been perennially marginalized, deeply stigmatized and greatly insulted, it is teachers in the about 1110 public primary schools in the state. Their story is a...

OPINION: 2015 AND ODIGIE-OYEGUN’S SEDITIOUS STATEMENT

As the 2015 national elections draw closer, the desperation of leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is becoming more apparent. Not only have their statements become more and more alarming, it has also, of recent, verged on the...

OPINION: THE TRIUMPH OF MYTH

About a fortnight ago, a thought-stultifying myth created mass hysteria in Nigeria. Many Nigerians based on hearsay eagerly embraced the salt-water bath as otherworldly vaccine against Ebola. Seemingly, its efficacy was not questioned by the general public. Rather it...

OPINION: APC AND IT’S HYPOCRITICAL STANCE ON ELECTIONS

After Governor Rauf Aregbesola was declared winner of the August 9 Governorship election in Osun State, I have been expecting the spokesman of the APC or some its foot soldiers to come up in their usual manner to raise...

OPINION: IMO STATE GOVERNMENT AND CRISIS IN OHAJI/EGBEMA

Governor Rochas Okorocha’s second term ambition has thrown Imolites at the crossroads, thereby shooting the State’s political temperature to one of its most frightening levels in our political history. Obviously, the Governor is facing the biggest credibility crisis of...

OPINION: EVD: WHY ARE NIGERIAN BORDERS STILL WIDE OPEN?

President Good luck Jonathan has taken a number of policy decisions that are pro-people. One typical example is the recent introduction of the victims' of insurgency support endowment fund headed by the immensely rich and resourceful General Theophilus Danjuma...

OPINION: HALF-FREE IS NEVER FREEDOM – TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington I wish to have titled this piece ‘In Defence of John Danfulani’, but I understand that the...

OPINION: WHY PROF OBA MUST NOT BE ELECTED AS NEXT KWARA GOVERNOR BY ADEKUNLE MAHMUD

‘’The man who would be king’’ is one of the classic movie of all time for those born in the early 90s. The lead characters Christopher Plummer, Michael Caine and Sean Connery all had something in common- the desire...