Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: THE RISE AND RISE OF ERIC OSAGIE

In seeking to write on one of Nigeria's best contemporary Journalists - Mr. Eric Osagie, I will dig deep into scholarly observations of some revered fathers of Nigerian journalism. This is because as a one hundred level journalism student, one...

OPINION: TAKING RESPONSIBILITY: LESSONS FROM SOUTH KOREA

Power must always be balanced by responsibility. Otherwise it is tyranny—Peter Drucker There is nowhere in the world where one form of disaster or the other do not happen. Even the most peaceful of countries cannot but escape such societal...

OPINION: GOVERNOR OBIANO: A REQUEST FOR SUSTAINABILITY

My resent visit to Anambra state my dear home state was a wonderful one caressing the tails of nostalgia which I believe will soon come to reality. I entered the city late around 8:30pm, the very period millions of...

OPINION: WE MUST NOT FORGET THE EDUCATIONAL ADVANCEMENT OF THE JONATHAN ADMINISTRATION

This year alone, the nation has witnessed two sad developments in the education sector aimed at discouraging Nigerian children from benefitting from the well articulated plan of the Jonathan administration to ensure that no Nigerian child is denied access...