Opinion

OPINION: AKPABIO, ASSAM, RUSSIA AND PUNISHMENTS

Last week, as one with a great interest in learning from our leaders, I was drawn to an interview in some local newspapers, not...

OPINION: AN OPEN LETTER OF PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES

Dear Mr President, A PETITION AGAINST THE EXCLUSION OF NDPVF, NDPSF, MOSOP, IYC AND MASSOB FROM THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES LIST It is with the highest...

OPINION: GENERAL ABACHA: HISTORY REMAINS OUR WITNESS

I have followed with a keen interest the controversies and debates that followed Professor Wole Soyinka’s latest piece titled; I regret my share of...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM: CAN NORTHERN LEADERS ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY?

Since the outbreak of violent attacks by the Boko Haram insurgents in 2009, the group’s mode of operation, style and pace have changed markedly....

OPINION: OKAY, HERE ARE SOME ANSWERS

I’m often taken aback when some of my Nigerian readers respond to my column by noting a failure to offer solutions. These fairly frequent...

OPINION: NONSENSE IN THE FINANCIAL REPORTING COUNCIL REPORT ON THE CBN

Nigeria’s ministries, ministers and law makers are the highest paid in the entire world. Equipment purchases and renovations for these departments run into billions...

OPINION: NIGERIA NATIONAL CONFERENCE AND THE SELF-DEFEATING CLAUSE OF THE NO-GO-AREA

Nigeria just like the United Kingdom of Great Britain is a country of loose union of various ethnic peoples with diverse and evidently irreconcilable...

OPINION: OGUN’S CHRONICLE OF MALADMINISTRATION: THE SAD STORY OF IMAGBON COMMUNITY

Some visitors and passersby had, over the past few months commended what they more often than not, refer to as the new face of...

OPINION: DESPITE CLIMATE CHANGE, AFRICA CAN FEED AFRICA

Climate change comes with never-before-experienced impacts. For example, crop yields and growing seasons will decrease even as changing rain patterns will worsen people’s access...

OPINION: APC AND THE ROADMAP TO NOWHERE

The other week, the leading opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), took its predilection for obfuscation to another level by engaging in self-serving...
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