Opinion

OPINION: KATSINA APC CONGRESS AND SENATOR BELLO’S OBJECTION

Few days to the National Convention of All Progressives Congress (APC), which took place on June 12 and 13, 2014, Katsina State chapter of the party held its state congress after over two months of conspiracies and flexing of...

OPINION: SOMETHING REALLY, REALLY DANGEROUS

Something really, really dangerous has happened in Nigeria. It is the reduction of human life to the scale of an ant. It is not about to happen; it has happened already. Forget all the talk about 2015 and the coming...

OPINION: UNESCO: UNFOUNDED FIGURE OF NIGERIAN CHILDREN OUT OF SCHOOL

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Sometimes as it is now, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, UNESCO can embarrass a nation it is serving with educational information when it goes out to do or permute funny numbers to make a case. Recently,...

OPINION: A MUSLIM/MUSLIM PRESIDENTIAL DISASTER FOR THE APC BY FEMI ARIBISALA

Femi Aribisala sounds like Nigeria’s Salman Rushdie. It seems Mr Aribisala is having endless sleepless nights over the person of Bola Tinubu and indeed the emergence of APC as another big political party in Nigeria. I believe that by...

OPINION: THE MAN AT THE CENTRE OF NIGERIA’S POLITICS

On Monday, 07 July 2014, Chief Timipre Sylva turns 50. It is a milestone mark for which glory and honour must be given to the good Lord. As a mark of respect for the Muslims who are observing the Holy Month...

OPINION: ADOKE AND THE TRIUMPH OF JUSTICE

Nigeria is an interesting paradox. In Nigeria, the moment a public office holder spends little or practically nothing to burnish or embellish his public image even when he is as clean as a white dove, usually he/she becomes the...

OPINION: LABOUR UNION IN POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS: A BAD PRECEDENT

The recent involvement, open campaign, sensitization and mobilization of voters for particular candidates in general elections in Nigeria by Labour Unions (Nigerian Labour Congress and Trade Union Congress) is ethically wrong and a flagrant abuse of labour norms. Duly,...

OPINION: AHIAZU MBAISE LOCAL GOVERNMENT IS THIS FAIR?

Ahiazu Mbaise is a Local Government Area in Imo State of Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Afororu (or Afor Oru). It has an area of 114 square km and a population of 170,902 at the 2006...

OPINION: SELL OUT NIGERIA WITH PROMISE OF BETTER LIVES IN NEW COUNTRIES

Are you ready to fight to death for a better life in a new country under these same leaders? If you are willing to risk it all on your leaders’ promises, there is a toll bridge in Lekki, Lokoja...

OPINION: THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF ARIBISALA’S FICTION

The Special Adviser Media to Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, in this rejoinder, dismisses Dr. Femi Aribisala’s latest column entitled The beginning of the end of Bola Tinubu. DR. Femi Aribisala’s recent article “The beginning of the end of the Bola Tinubu...