Opinion

OPINION: $1BN LOAN AND MATTERS ARISING

The debate over the plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to source $1 billion loan to fund the on-going military campaign against Boko Haram insurgency and other related security challenges facing the country is needless. It is needless because in...

OPINION: THE LOOTING OF 4.7 BILLION NAIRA EHIME MBANO COUNCIL FUNDS

Fela Anikulapo Kuti had a larger than life image and meant different things to many people. He was incessantly brutalized by many governments for supposedly being a deviant. For many however, one of Fela's major sources of attraction was...

OPINION: PRESIDENT JONATHAN WANTS TO BORROW 1 BILLION DOLLARS TO ‘FIGHT BOKO HARAM,’ BUT FIRST…

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“I would like to bring to your attention, the urgent need to upgrade the equipment, training and logistics of our Armed Forces and Security services to enable them more forcefully confront this serious threat. For this reason, I seek...

OPINION: MILITARY ATTACK ON LAGOSIANS: WELCOME TO JONATHAN’S NIGERIA

The dark days of military oppression are back! The Black Era has returned! Soldiers took over a major street in Lagos for five hours and we were helpless to stop them. They slapped some; beat some senseless; destroyed public...

OPINION: DECENTRALIZING TO MUNICIPALITIES IN ARAB SPRING COUNTRIES

Decentralization - as a way of structuring public administration, in order to give local people and communities more control over their own affairs and to promote human development - is being closely considered for adoption by some Arab Spring...

OPINION: UNSAFE ABORTION: YOUNG GIRLS DIE OUT OF LACK OF KNOWLEDGE

Unsafe abortion has lingered as one of the chief factors for the increasing maternal death ring in the country. The level at which unsafe abortion is destroying the lives of young Nigerian women has become a cause for concern...

OPINION: IS BOKO HARAM A PAWN IN THE BIGGER POLITICAL GAME?

Kremlin insiders predict more Western aid and possibly intervention for Nigeria as lessons from Iraq begin to sink in. The traditional view in the Kremlin on any conflict in different parts of the world, be it social unrest, a popular...

OPINION: NDIGBO: THERE CAN BE NO REPARATION WITHOUT RECONCILIATION

It is a truism that Ike Nwachukwu has a perpetual moral and ethical dilemma with the Igbo nation. So, may I know what portion of this assertion that Ndigbo resident in Nigeria don’t understand. The Jews of European extraction care...

OPINION: EDUCATION: BETWEEN MAN AND OBJECTS IN OGUN

Obviously since the former governor of Ogun State raised an issue about the construction of bogus Model schools by his successor in office as a misplaced priority and a needless waste of public funds, there seem to be no...

OPINION: PENSION: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE NIGERIAN SITUATION

But for those with hearts of stone who would rather give their babies live snakes rather than delicious fish, it is a shock to hear the heart rending rendition of live stories of hundreds of thousands of Nigerian aged...