Opinion

OPINION: MUTINY IN THE ARMY: MATTERS ARISING!

On Wednesday, 14th day of May, 2014, reports went round the country that an army general, the General Officer Commanding, GOC of the 7 division of the Nigerian Army in Borno State, Major General Ahmed Mohammed’s official vehicle was...

OPINION: PATRIOTISM TO DEATH; THE VOW OF THE NIGERIAN MILITARY

While patriotism to the Nigerian cause can no longer be considered a given, there still some patriotic individuals and institutions who will give their lives to die for this nation, because they believe in the entity called Nigeria. No doubt,...

OPINION: OBY: ACTIVIST BY DAY, POLITICIAN BY NIGHT

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There appears to be a growing trend in this country. As I reflect on the last few weeks in our nation’s history, something about it seems hauntingly familiar, and it’s not merely the apparent unity of the Nigerian people...

OPINION: CHIBOK GIRLS: FOREIGN ASSISTANCE AND NEED FOR CAUTION

The tragic abduction of over 200 girls from a secondary school in Chibok by the notoriously ruthless Boko Haram sect should send shivers down the spine of anyone with even an ounce of humanity in them. It is therefore...

OCCUPY AFRICA: DRONES CANNOT CAPTURE BOKO HARAM GENERALS

Africans have been stung many times in the past, but must not give in to advice of Boko Haram Generals. Only Nigerians can capture Boko Haram Generals, not foreigners. Army has proved worthy in world peace and war missions;...

OPINION: GODLINESS ISN’T FOR CHRISTIANS ALONE

I think why the world has been the catastrophic way it is, is because many people are bereft of fresh and positive ideas. They do not believe in themselves. They are looking up to Eldorado, from where they think...

OPINION: WEFA, BOKO HARAM AND JONATHAN

A few days before the World Economic Forum on Africa (WEFA) was to begin in Abuja, the terrorist group, Boko Haram, launched a second deadly bomb attack within two weeks in Nyanya, an outlying district of the nation’s capital....

OPINION: JONATHAN’S PLEA FOR EMERGENCY RULE EXTENSION

On May 13, 2014, the Senate and House of Representatives in their separate sittings read the request letter of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, seeking approval of the National Assembly to further extend the extant state of emergence in Borno,...

OPINION: EMERGING AFRICA: A BOOK REVIEW

I have read several books on the prospects of Africa as an emerging ‎ market; most of which were written by non-Africans from an outsider’s perspective. In this refreshing book, Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu tells the story from an insider’s...

OPINION: ORJI AND THE COMMENDATION TO SOUTH-EAST DELEGATES

In what he described as the harmonious working relationship existing between the team of the South-East zone at the ongoing National Conference, the Abia State Governor, Theodore Ahamefule Orji would not end at nothing in making sure that he...