Opinion

OPINION: A NATION AFFLICTED

“If they ever tell my story let them say I walked with giants, men rise and fall like the Winter wheat but these names will never die... Let them say I lived in the time of Hector, tamer of...

OPINION: THE ROAD TO UNITY

Nigeria as it is today, is still an artificial creation. It has always been a figment of imagination. Our founding fathers never inculcated in us the ideals of the nation called Nigeria. Our allegiance was not to the nation...

OPINION: RICH DADS AND POOR KIDS OF NIGERIA

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If you ever nursed any doubts that Nigeria is a perfect metaphor then perish that thought if you are among the audience that watched as the Nigerian President made a laughing stock of Nigeria with his year 2014 Workers'...

OPINION: GOVERNORSHIP OF RIVERS STATE IS NO SINECURE

“Returning to God is our sure hope and not the proposed turn-by-turn leadership philosophy that is creating discord in the State. It is always God’s turn to produce a leader, for a people and for purpose. Only God know...

OPINION: GOVERNANCE AND POLITICKING WE NEED IN ELECTION YEAR

The politics of 2015 had relegated governance and service delivery to the background. The 2015 election is still a little less than two years away but that the political fireworks had already reached “feverish pitch.” “The nation is already...

OPINION: LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

Much ado over Africa’s power sector Apapa is the industrial hub of Lagos, Nigeria’s bustling commercial capital that’s home to some 17 million people. Daily, the air in Apapa reverberates with the humming sound of electricity generators. In Apapa, as...

OPINION: INTERNET ACCESS IS NO LONGER A LUXURY

Fibre-optics could leap-frog Africa into the future It is early morning in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. The traffic jam along Ngong Road, one of the city’s main feeder roads, stretches for kilometres as matatus (taxis), buses and cars try to...

OPINION: WHY WHAT WOMEN WEAR MATTERS

We recognize that nothing a women wears can prevent a man from lusting after her. We also take a firm stance that personal responsibility must be taken for a man’s sin toward a woman (be it lust or rape)....

OPINION: MAY MONTH OF SIGNS AND WONDERS: POWER TO CREATE DESIRED FUTURE

“And God confirmed the message by giving signs and wonders and various miracles and gifts of the Holy Spirit whenever he chose”(Heb. 2:4). Only believe..." (Luke 8:50). That's the door that opens up the spiritual realm, which that brings...

OPINION: WHY THE PRESIDENT MUST SACK HIS MEDIA TEAM

These have not been the best of times for President Goodluck Jonathan. Since the Nyanya bomb blast that consumed over 70 souls and the abduction of nearly 300 teenage school girls from Chibok in Borno State, the President has...