Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA’S #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS WAR OF 2014

The yorubas in Nigeria sa Ọ̀nà ọ̀fun ò gba egungun ẹja. Meaning the throat cannot accommodate fish-bone. One of my weaknesses is history, reason being that I often do not understand why we often either make light of it or...

OPINION: STILL ON DAME PATIENCE JONATHAN AND CRITICS.

The current effort by Government, well meaning Nigerians and the International community at locating and rescuing the abducted Chibok girls has revealed some fundamental questions that rational minds should ask the vociferous critics of Nigeria First Lady, Dame Patience...

OPINION: REJOINDER: IS BUKOLA SARAKI AN EMERGENT STATESMAN?

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Today, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the whole world is focused on the hunt our 276 missing daughters. In the past week, the eyes of the world have been focused on our country and its contradictions, we held the...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM, JONATHAN AND THE NORTHERN ELDERS

On 4th May 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader Boko Haram, proclaimed: "I am going to marry out any woman who is twelve years old, and if she is younger, I will marry her out at the age of nine. You...

OPINION: WHY THE NORTH’S DEPENDENCE ON OIL REVENUE IS FESTERING TERRORISM

The ongoing national conference has been fraught with some very controversial issues one of which is the agitation for control of resources by the delegates from South-South Nigeria pitching them against their Northern compatriots. If the last resource control...

OPINION: BISI AKANDE: A GLOATER’S RENDITION AND DIATRIBE

A cursory look into why the interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande, addressed his world press conference on Sunday gave an impression that he was a truly concerned elder who wanted to speak...

OPINION: CHIBOK IS A TRAGEDY IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE

The first tragedy is the kidnapping of some people. I have purposely used the word “people” as opposed to “girls” which is the word I and most other people have used hitherto. I have also used “some” instead of...

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO AKWA IBOM TRIBALISTS.

I am speaking to a large swath of people both in Akwa Abasi Ibom State and in Diaspora. A group of people, whose self-worth comes from discrimination of others based on tribe. Their utterances distinguish them from the true thinkers...

OPINION: A ‘SOFT APPROACH’ TO DEALING WITH RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS & SAVAGE TERRORISTS

In March 2014, National Security Adviser Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) presented to Nigerians, at a well publicized briefing replete with media glitz, a National Counter Terrorism Strategy (NACTEST) where he outlined a new strategy called 'Soft Approach' for dealing...

OPINION: 2015: THOUGHTS ON JONATHAN’S ELIGIBILITY

On unique characteristic of democracy in this part of the clime is that, at every election period, our political actors unleash their political dragons on the entire nation just because some of them want to be in power at...