Opinion

OPINION: ENTER GUSAU THE FOREIGN SPY, EXIT 234 GIRLS, ENTER AFRICOM

As we prepared for Gusau’s return, after we heard that President Jonathan had discussed and arranged certain ‘private’ things with him and his name was nominated, 20 girls got abducted. It was this same period when the Yobe school...

OPINION: HAUNTED BY UNSUSTAINABLE PAYOFF TO POLITICIANS MEND & BOKO HARAM

The outrageous salary of politicians, Boko Haram and MEND seems to be cast in stone since no Jupiter of criticism, logic or foreign pressure has imparted any changes. Yet it is unsustainable,  bearing forbidden fruits to others as examples...

OPINION: AGRICULTURE: AMAECHI’S ANTIDOTE TO THE MENACE OF BOKO HARAM AND INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

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“In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.” –Ban Ki-moon,...

OPINION: THE OUTRAGE THAT IS JOHN MCCAIN

A few days ago, Sen. John McCain made what must go down as one of the most outrageous, most demeaning and most unacceptable statements ever made against our leader and our country. In an interview with CNN, he said,...

OPINION: ORJI CONTINUES TO RAPE ABIA

Permit me to point out the following observations I have made in Abia State. They are about the governance in that state and the trick that Governor Theodore Orji and his aides are spreading everywhere. They are bent on attacking...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM: ARMED CIVILIANS ACHIEVE IN A WEEK WHAT ARMY COULD NOT IN MONTHS

Up to 300 Boko Haram terrorists were killed by armed civilians in Nigeria last week. In the villages of Rann and Shuwa in Kala-Balge local government, civilians ambushed and decimated a Boko Haram invasion, killing over 200 terrorists and...

OPINION: NIGERIA ON ROBOT PILOT

Add this to Reuben Abati’s file: The man cries. There are some things Abati can’t fix – lies and betrayal. By now, Abati must have settled the fact within himself that lies have a short life, but truth lives...

OPINION: HAS GOVERNMENT A RIGHT TO LIE?

An immediate observable unintended consequence of the just concluded World Economic Forum for Africa (WEFA) was the unprecedented scale of interest of the global media to Nigeria’s hitherto local affairs. A major area of focus of the international media was...

OPINION: THE KING’S SPEECH AND PDP’S SELECTIVE AMNESIA

The hypocrisy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is on full display and the world should join me in a collective act of SMH (Shaking My Head). The selective amnesia of the ruling party is pathetic, shameful and highly...

OPINION: NO LONGER A CURSE?

African leaders take action that may transform the mining The Hollywood blockbuster movie, Blood Diamond, tells a gripping story of how diamonds fuelled Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war which erupted in 1991. It depicts kidnappings, use of child soldiers, amputations,...