Opinion

OPINION: TAKING KONGI’S ADMONITION TO HEART

It was a great relieve to read the rebuttal of Professor Wole Soyinka “kongi” to the wild joke making the rounds on social media about a statement, credited to him wherein he allegedly attributed perceived decision deficit of President...

OPINION: WILL NIGERIANS EVER UNITE?

There is now a unanimity of position from the usually fractious segments of the Nigerian society that Nigeria is undergoing perhaps the toughest period in her political history since after the fratricidal civil war in which over three million...

OPINION: WHEN THEY BOMBED THE CHURCHES

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At first they bombed the Churches. We blamed the Muslims for it. For some, they blamed no one, but yet remained criminally quiet about it. Perhaps for some it felt alright. Then they went after the Imams. Because we...

OPINION: #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS: ALL OF US ARE EXPERTS, ACTIVISTS, BUT HOW MANY ARE PARENTS

If one sells a member of one's household cheap, one will not be able to buy him back at a great value. If one does not throw a toad into hot water, and then throw it into cold water,...

OPINION: CELEBRATING THE BARTHO OKOLO RENAISSANCE AT UNN

Farewells are often melancholic but at the University of Nigeria the over one-week farewell that began May 22 has a celebratory tone to underscore the renewed pride and sense of mission inspired by the work of the outgoing Vice...

OPINION: POPE FRANCIS THE PEACE MAKER

Vicar of Christ on Earth and the leader of the over three billion Catholics World wide is currently on holy pilgrimage to the Holy cities in the middle East- traditional birth place of Jesus. The above information is not the...

OPINION: POLITICIAN AND STATESMAN: ANY MEETING POINT?

Two nations in this contemporary political era typify the immediate outcome of what too much selfish and petty politics among the ruling elites would look like. These are Thailand and Egypt - which are countries located far apart from...

OPINION: SARAKI: GOING, GOING

With the powerful forces and factors conspiring against him, power may finally slip the hands of the godfather of Kwara State politics, Senator Bukola Saraki As the political clock ticks and the march towards the 2015 general elections intensify, politicians...

OPINION: A WORD FOR GOV. OBIANO’S MEDIA HANDLERS

The rejoinder written on page 65 of Sunday Sun April 20, 2014 by one Ejike Anyaduba (a pen name/pseudonym) supposedly writing from Abatete, Anambra State in response to the story written by Comrade Aloysius Attah in page 12 of...

OPINION: 2015: ELECTIONS – THE UNEXPECTED WILL HAPPEN

“My advice to you is this: go to God and present your case to Him. For he does great works too marvelous to understand. He performs miracles without number. He gives rain for the earth. He sends water for...