Opinion

OPINION: EKITI POLL AND “JANJAWEED” AGENDA: ET TU ASIWAJU!

With less than a month to the governorship election in Ekiti State, the national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu at his investiture as Chancellor of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) said...

OPINION: EREDIAUWA ON 2015: WHAT IS JONATHAN WAITING FOR?

“You can never tell a bad market-day by the morning.” This weather beaten Igbo proverb cannot be any truer with the way events panned out for the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, on Friday, April 25, this year. The week...

OPINION: APC LEADERS AND THE DRUMS OF VIOLENCE

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In the run-up to the 2011 presidential election, it was General Muhammadu Buhari, candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), who sowed the wind by telling his supporters to go on a lynching spree if the result did...

OPINION: HOW A SPECIAL MINISTER FIGHTS CORRUPTION

Dr. Good luck Jonathan is a young but vastly experienced politician who rose from the ranks to become the President of Nigeria in 2011 by popular mandate in a toughly contested national poll. When he assumed office, one item that...

OPINION: CHALLENGE TINUBU, IF YOU CAN!

Everywhere in the world, there are people who go into politics because they feel a genuine call to service. Others do so, either for self aggrandisement or in furtherance of some ignoble objectives or simply to protect their crooked...

OPINION: ARIBISALA, JONATHAN AND 2015 ELECTION

No public commentator has as yet delivered as robust an analysis of the forthcoming 2015 presidential election as a regular columnist in the Vanguard, the intrepid Femi Aribisala. In a recent article, titled: ‘The 2015 presidential election will not...

OPINION: AFRICA FLIES ON A WING AND A PRAYER

Air transport reforms needed to unlock full potential Until recently, it was not uncommon for passengers flying between two African cities to transit through Europe. It was cheaper and faster, for instance, for passengers travelling to Ethiopia from Cote d’Ivoire...

OPINION: AFRICA: ON BUMPY ROADS AND RAILS

Unprecedented investments in Africa’s ground transportation are hardly enough The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which sprawls over 905,000 square miles, is the second largest country in Africa. Fifty four years after independence, the DRC has no roads connecting...

OPINION: BALA MOHAMMED’S STRIDE IN FCT AND THE FUTURE OF BAUCHI

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. You build one by doing what is right at the right time.” Senator Bala Mohammed (KauranBauchi) wrote on his Facebook wall as far back as September 22,...

OPINION: TINUBU, NYAKO AND APC’S APPEAL TO VIOLENCE

It is quite unsettling that the leaders of the leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), have decided to self-destruct. They are doing their best in putting the wrong foot forward in almost all their recent public outings. After...