Opinion

OPINION: THE CHIBOK GIRLS AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES

I am one of those who have wondered why President Goodluck Jonathan has been unusually slow in taking a decisive action on the ‘kidnap’ of 234 students of the Government Girls' Secondary school, Chibok in Borno state. I was...

OPINION: LET US CELEBRATE AND IMMORTALISE SIR MICHAEL OTEDOLA

As we mourn the passage of our own leader, father and an illustrious son of Lagos State, Sir Michael Otedola, let us take solace in fact that Baba lived a glorious life and served the people of Lagos State...

OPINION: RE: UN SANCTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS AGAINST NIGERIAN OFFICIALS

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Between 40,000 and 80,000 Nigerians, mostly civilians have been killed in an out of control state of insecurity in Africa’s largest nation. Nigeria, a top oil producer hit global headlines in recent weeks as Boko Haram terror reached an...

OPINION: JONATHAN, CHIBOK GIRLS AND THE REST OF US

These are uncomfortable times for President Goodluck Jonathan. Recently the terrorist group Boko Haram resurfaced in the vicinity of Abuja, detonating two deadly bombs in Nyanya while also abducting an unclear number of girls from Chibok in Borno State....

OPINION: GOVERNOR KASHIM SHETTIMA: GIVE YOUR PEOPLE GUNS TO DEFEND THEMSELVES

Dear Governor Shettima, We are writing you openly, that the people see and know you were advised openly. You have waited and watched your people being picked off like hens in a pen for the past four years. You have...

OPINION : GOODLUCK AZIKIWE JONATHAN IS A LUCKY MAN INDEED

The elder Jonathan, the one who named his son Azikiwe and Goodluck, must have seen a vision at the son’s birth. How else can one explain the chain of events in this man’s life? His journey through primary school...

OPINION: NIPOST, NASS AND TRANSFORMATION AGENDA

This writers understanding of Transformation Agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan is that, it is a call for a progressive Nigeria where things are done in a civilized manner and where every Nigerian will truly contribute his or her own...

OPINION: MORE HOME GROWN TERRORISTS WAITING TO METASTASIZE

This is the best time for National Conference to decide this once and for all. How to pay your terrorists or youths from internal resources must not come from others. If we go on encouraging violence, poverty, suffering and...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM AND THE CHIBOK AFFAIR: THE EMERGING AND UNCOMFORTABLE FACTS

Now that the operational leadership and visible face of Boko Haram, in the person of the filth called Mr. Abubakar Shekau (aka Darul Tawheed), has finally admitted that they were responsible for the abduction of hundreds of our school...

OPINION: THE WORLD ECONOMIC ‘FRAUD’ FOR AFRICA

The Coordinating minister for the Nigerian Economy and the minister of Finance Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a woman known for her reported famed passion for the revival of the economy of the country that has gone comatose over...