Opinion

OPINION: KALU: STANDING FOR HIMSELF

Chief Orji Uzor Kalu is not facing the greatest opposition because of the political animosity the man at the helm of affairs in Umuahia, Abia State, has been showing against him. What the international business man, renowned peace-maker and...

OPINION: WHY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH SHOULD TENDER HIS RESIGNATION LETTER NOW

A minister of health is more like a priest to a nation, their words are source of hope and life, so they are reverend, priest are not known to tell lies so a minister of health. We all saw the...

OPINION: REACTION TO NEF ON JONATHAN, CHIBOK GIRLS AND 2015 RE-ELECTION BID

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According to an article in the Punch of August 11th, the Alhaji Sule Maitama-led Northern Elders Forum, NEF has “given the president of Nigeria till October to recover the abducted 234 Chibok girls or forget his 2015 re-election bid.” The...

OPINION: EFFICACY OF GRASS ROOT SUPPORT IN WINNING ELECTIONS

Today, Elections in Nigeria has reached a new crescendo and it is imperative to dissect the single most important factor that motivates electorates in deciding whom they cast their vote for. Glaringly, asides "stomach Infrastructure" which many in some...

OPINION: BEHOLD THE WIND CHASER CALLED FEMI ARIBISALA

“When a representative of the oppressed absorbs the ideology of the oppressor he becomes more ferocious and dangerous than the oppressor in defending that ideology” - Dr Edwin Madunagu I remember I used this quotation from Dr Edwin Madunagu when...

OPINION: THE OSUN STATE ELECTION WAS TRIUMPH OF THE PEOPLE’S WILL OVER JONATHANIAN BRIGANDAGE

“It’s an intolerable abuse of power to have employees who are supposed to be advancing the public interest, actually working on political campaigns.” – Sal Albanese I arrived Osogbo, the capital of the state of Osun on Sunday 3rd of August,...

OPINION: ANAMBRA CENTRAL AND UMEH’S SENATORIAL AMBITION

Chief Victor Umeh, an accomplished estate manager and surveyor is the national chairman of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA). An astute politician seen by many as a dogged fighter, Umeh has fought and won various legal battles to remain...

OPINION: EBOLA EXPOSES THE DISDAIN OF THE WEST FOR AFRICA

Any excuse that was floated to justify the provision of ZMapp Ebola cure to Americans only and not any single Africans, went out the window when a Spaniard priest who came down with the virus received his own doses...

OPINION: SO JONATHAN ALLOWED AREGBESOLA TO WIN

After all the noise and the heightening of the blood pressure of Nigerians by the irascible All Progressives Congress (APC), it was a delightful surprise that the President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Foces of the Federal...

OPINION: JONATHAN’S ELECTORAL REFORM, APC’S GAINS

A large number of Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief in the morning of Sunday, 10th August, 2014, when the returning Officer of the just-concluded Osun gubernatorial election, Professor Bamitale Omole, announced that the candidate of the All Progressives...