Opinion

OPINION: AFTER IMOKE WHO WILL MAKE THE DIFFERENCE?

So much noise and permutations in the air in Cross River State on who will become the next governor, how the political parties are jostling and scheming on the criteria that will be adopted whether democratically or otherwise to choose their...

OPINION: FURTHER STEPS TO END INSURGENCY

In the preceding edition of this same piece, we had dwelt extensively on the modalities adopted already by the Nigerian Government to seek to bring to a fruitful end the current state of anarchy, lawlessness, bloody killings and insurgency...

OPINION: STEPS TO END INSURGENCY

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Nigerian government has over the last two years worked on different methods of seeking an end to the bloody insurgency in Northern Nigeria which has resulted in the massacre by armed Islamic Terrorists- Boko Haram of over 12, 000...

OPINION: NIGERIANS, ALL THAT DRUGS, THE WIDOWS AND US

Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, bug-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants!. I'm about to tell you a story I've never heard before, so pull up a chair and sit on the floor. Admission is free, so pay at the door. One...

OPINION: KAYODE FAYEMI: DIMINISHED SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PURSUIT OF INDIRECT RULE

For all intents and purposes, Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress , the incumbent governor of Ekiti State was a good administrator. He built durable roads, constructed modern offices to house government workers and he even came up...

OPINION: EKITI ELECTION AND THE BAND WAGON EFFECT

(Lessons from a seasoned politician since 1983) I write this article from my personal point of view without affixing it to any political, social or governmental platforms. However, when one is known as a Zikist, you could see a similitude...

OPINION: THE ART OF THE MATTER

Much has been written about the outcome of the Ekiti State gubernatorial elections. Political pundits are still squaring off over the reasons why Governor Kayode Fayemi lost. I’m unable to dredge up words to describe the tsunami of the...

OPINION: THE OTHER SIDE OF APC AND AKPD PARTNERSHIP

Some months ago, the news media was a washed with a statement credited to the main opposition party in Nigeria, the All Progressives Congress (APC), hinting of its plan to engage the services of AKPD Message and Media, a...

OPINION: THE EKITI GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION AS PROGRESS

By progress, I mean that genuine sense of improvement that comes with comparing what is to what used to be, or where one is to where one used to be. And with a past in which our former President,...

OPINION: WALKING THE FINE LINE BETWEEN AN ANARCHIST AND A COLUMNIST

I was astounded and full of dismay after reading your short sighted article on a Muslim/Muslim ticket and your total condemnation without thinking for one moment of the people of Nigeria and the gains they might benefit from the...