Opinion

OPINION: FINAL RESPONSE TO LAI MOHAMMED AND THE APC’S LATEST RESPONSE

I read the second response of Lai Mohammed and the APC to my comments which appeared in today's newspapers. Does this so-called spokesman for Nigeria's opposition party have nothing better to do than to join issues with me on...

OPINION: THAT OSHIOMHOLE’S THREAT TO INCITE STUDENTS AND MARKET WOMEN

Within a space of two weeks, and apparently flowing from the fact that the All Progressives Congress (APC) was roundly trounced in the Ekiti State Gubernatorial elections, there has been an upping in the loud cry coming from the...

OPINION: ABDUCTION OF DUTCH NATIONALS….AND NIGHTMARE IN THE NIGER DELTA CREEKS

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The voyage to the Dodo River communities in the Niger Delta, southern part of Nigeria, turned out to be an epic journey characterized by despair, neglect, poverty and manifestation of the militancy which has beset a Kingdom rich in...

OPINION: DECONSTRUCTING JONATHAN’S THEORY OF TINY MEN

The Punch Newspaper, on December 9, 2013 reported that: “Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday said Nigerian politicians lacked the virtues of great men and that none could be compared to the late former South African President, Dr. Nelson Mandela.” Furthermore, it...

OPINION: WHAT ‘GOOD PRESS’ IN NIGERIA MEANS THESE DAYS

Since the “BringBackOurGirls” protests started after we learnt that about 276 girls were abducted by the radical Islamic group called Boko Haram on April 14th, 2014, there is nothing that many commentators have not compared President Goodluck Jonathan to in this...

OPINION: IHEDIOHA AND THE PDP IMO GUBER TICKET

The task of marketing Hon. Emeka Ihedioha to the Imo State electorate is a very easy task because it is a classic case of the maxim: ”A good wine needs no bush”. As a political product, Ihedioha has a...

OPINION: RISING FROM THE ASHES

Twenty years after genocide, Rwanda makes huge development strides For the survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, it feels like only yesterday that machete-wielding Hutu militias embarked on a mission to annihilate the entire Tutsi tribe. Marie-Claude Mukambano, a...

OPINION: CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: KILLINGS IN THE TIME OF TRANSITION

Peace eludes nation in a rocky political transition No one needs an alarm clock to wake up in Bangui in recent weeks. The sound of gunfire, sometimes sustained and heavy, has become a morning ritual in the Central African Republic’s...

OPINION: SENATOR BELLO HAYATU GWARZO AND THE DIVIDEND OF DEMOCRACY

No nation could ever prosper and reach the pinnacle of greatness without having concrete democratic structures put in place and those saddles with the responsibility of guarding such structures must possess a rare quality of leadership and the capacity...

OPINION: DELE MOMODU AND THE MOCKERY OF PATRIOTISM

Dele Momodu's column in Thisday Newspapers, Pendulum, has become a platform that he freely uses to mock the collective will of Nigerians and weekly cast aspersions on President Goodluck Jonathan. After woefully losing the 2011 Presidential election to President Jonathan...