Opinion

OPINION: AS BOKO HARAM TAKES OVER THE NORTH: WHAT NORTHERN LEADERSHIP?

People usually carelessly refer to a “northern leadership,” like such body exists. A certain spook body that sets itself up and positions itself to procure certain advantage for its people. A so-called northern leadership that ensured northerners led Nigeria...

OPINION: ANENIH, JONATHAN AND 2015 ELECTION

If anybody had any doubt whether President Goodluck Jonathan will run for re-election in 2015, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party Board of Trustees, Chief (Dr) Tony Anenih, has put such doubts to rest. Speaking at a recent gathering...

OPINION: WILL NETANYAHU SEIZE THE MOMENT?

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There is a growing consensus among Israelis and Arabs that the Israel-Hamas war will end just like the 2009 and 2012 encounters. Hamas will declare victory by pointing out the casualties and pain inflicted on the Israelis and the...

OPINION: OHAKIM: THE BEST FOR A BETTER IMO STATE

What we have seen so far with the scorecard of Governor Rochas Okorocha is less desirable. Therefore, as many people are warming up for the governorship of Imo State, the issue of who carries the peoples mandate for the...

OPINION: AS OYINLOLA RETURNS TO HIS VOMIT…

For a long time, former Governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, has spoken of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its leadership in unkind words. It is, after-all, the party which displaced him from the state’s topmost post...

OPINION: OSUN ELECTION: WHY IT MATTERS

I write this piece on the gubernatorial elections holding in Osun state. Its objective is basically to remind my friends and fellow compatriots in the south-west geopolitical zone of our country of what is at stake in tomorrow’s polls;...

OPINION: ANENIH, NIGERIA’S POLITICAL NOSTRADAMUS, AND 2015

Every political party that he has been part of since I became politically wise has won the election! More, whenever he declared that a particular person would win the election at the centre, he was always dead right! Just...

OPINION: THE NIGERIAN MUSLIMS, “THE INTELLECTUALS” AND ISLAM (I)

Recently, the Nigerian Muslims came under yet another attack from a section of the secularists or the so called ‘liberal’ Muslims, for joining the world in condemnation of the Zionist’s genocide in Gaza. Their condemnations were echoed, by some...

OPINION: THE SEVEN CASCADES OF ERIN IJESHA WATERFALLS AND THE SEVEN FACTORS THAT MIGHT SWING THE VOTES IN OSUN STATE

My only chance of visiting Osun State was during my Youth Service. A couple of us decided to explore the tourism potentials of my host state of Ondo, and other neighbouring states. We started out at the amazing Ikogosi...

OPINION: REASONS WHY POLLING AGENTS CANNOT BE 300 METRES AWAY FROM THE POLLING UNITS

At the stakeholders forum held today, the 6th day of August, 2014, at the Leisure Spring Hotel, Osogbo, the Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, originally stated that no polling Agent would be allowed within 300 metres from the...