Opinion

OPINION: SCHOOLCHILDREN IN NIGERIA, IN SOUTH KOREA

The events leading up to the resignation of the South Korean Prime Minister, Chung Hong-won, has made us in Nigeria realise that the mindless killings by Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, as recent discoveries have revealed – ritualists and the...

OPINION: I WEEP FOR NIGERIA

The scene in Nigeria over the last few weeks can be taken to be an adaptation from a blockbuster première movie in Nollywood. Everything is just a jest. In fact, Nigeria is a disgrace and President Goodluck Jonathan is a...

OPINION: THE PROBLEMS, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS TO INSECURITY IN NIGERIA.

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Few years ago, Nigerians were anxiously concerned on how the federal government can tackle the corrosive and caustic corruption, education, agriculture and power failure, but the recurring spate of hapless killings in the Northern parts of Nigeria diverted the...

OPINION: ASUP, COEASU STRIKES: LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

On Tuesday April 29, members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP and Colleges of Education Staff Union, COEASU, embarked on a peaceful protest to the Federal Ministry of Education, Federal Ministry of Labour and the National Assembly...

OPINION: SELF-DEFENSE MILITIA: HOW ALGERIA CHECKED ITS “BOKO HARAM” CRISES IN THE 90’S BLACK DECADE

On Tuesday, April 15th, 234 girls attending school in Chibok, Borno State in Nigeria's northeast were abducted by suspected Boko Haram terrorists. This was reported barely 16 hours after deadly explosions at Nyanya bus stop in the nation's capital...

OPINION: SECOND NIGER BRIDGE: FOUR MORE YEARS OF PAINS AND TEARS

In March this year, the PDP campaign organization led by President Goodluck Jonathan went to Onitsha end of the Niger Bridge to continue the endless and primitive politics of building a second Niger Bridge. The political promise to build...

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

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...