Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: OSUN ELECTION AND THE HAND OF JONATHAN

The whole country now knows that the All Progressives Congress (APC) won the Osun State gubernatorial election held on August 9, 2014. Governor Rauf Aregbesola, the man who called on his supporters to fight security agencies with “cutlasses and...

OPINION: JONATHAN’S BENEVOLENCE TO BOKO HARAM VICTIMS

The recent inauguration of Victim Support Funds Committee headed by General Theophilus Danjuma (rtd) by President Good Luck Jonathan is a welcomed development! While speaking in separate audiences with the Common Wealth Secretary-General, MrKamalesh Sharma and the Executive Director of...

OPINION: NIGERIA: OF GHOST WORKERS AND ‘GHOST CORPERS’

Charles Soludo is a professor of Banking and Finance. Before he became the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria under the administration of the President Olusegun Obasanjo he was a fire brand lecturer at the prestigious University of Nigeria...

OPINION: APC, AREGBESOLA’S VICTORY AND THE REST OF US

As the members of All Progressives Congress (APC) all over the country are in celebration mood over the victory of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, it is time for the party's spin doctors to have a rethink on the way and...

OPINION: OSUN AS TRIUMPH OF JONATHAN’S ELECTORAL REFORM

The governorship contest for Osun state has come and gone but the import of its outcome will linger for a long time to come. The election was won by Rauf Aregbesola of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who prevailed...