Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA’S NEW GDP: NIGERIA’S GAIN, SOUTH AFRICA’S LOSS

On the 6th of April 2014, millions of South Africans were shocked to say the least as the Nigerian government after long assessment of the economy with world bank announced the rebasing of its economy, establishing Nigeria’s GDP as...

OPINION: A LETTER TO PRESIDENT JONATHAN FROM THE GRAVE

Dear President Jonathan: We, the more than 200 victims of Boko Haram’s latest savage bomb attacks, feel we must write to you from beyond the grave. Our simple message is summed up in the phrase: Enough is enough. As you know,...

OPINION: DEAR AFP; NIGERIAN PRESS: WHERE IS SHEKAU’S NYANA VIDEO?

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It has been three days now since you claimed there was a new video out by late Abubakar Shekau. Where is this video? Nigerians are not dummies or fools, happy to be killed and destroyed further by propaganda of...

OPINION: NYANYA BOMB BLAST AND THE FIGHT AGAINST TERRORISM IN NIGERIA

Sinister terror and hatred have again reached from the shadows to steal the lives of innocent Nigerians. In Nyanya, seventy-two people were killed by a car bomb. Hundreds more were injured in the devastation. Their killings served no purpose...

OPINION: AN EXPOSE ON NASIR EL-RUFAI: TRAILS OF BETRAYALS & PROPAGANDA

When it comes to the game of propaganda, not even the legendary Paul Joseph Goebbels – the Minister of Propaganda in the Hitler’s Third Reich - can match our own Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. Times over, he has proven that...

OPINION: INTERPRETERS OF MALADIES

Two truths are indispensable to leaders. First, they will be criticized. Second, criticism always changes the leader. Unhappy people tend to attack the point person. As a leader, how do you respond to criticisms? When the storms come and...

OPINION: REVEALED: THE IDENTITIES OF THE 100 UNIFORM CLAD “FULANI HERDSMEN” MARAUDERS

The identities of the 100 or so-known, "Fulani gunmen" who have been massacring various towns in the north, clad in military fatigues and supported by helicopters has been exposed. The leaders include: Buhari (not the ex-president), Kundu and Munjagara. These...

OPINION: ADOPT FULL PUBLIC FUNDING FOR NIGERIAN ELECTIONS

The Electoral Act of 2010 empowers the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) to regulate the sources and nature of funding for political campaigns in Nigeria. However, even though the 2011 general election was declared free and fair by the...

OPINION: UMANA’S GUBER AMBITION AND THE SINKING PILLAR 2

Apr 13 at 11:29 PM Our big brother in Akwa Ibom State Umana Okon Umana was born on Thursday August 20, 1959. That day was a rather uneventful day in history. However, there was an event that took place in...

OPINION: IS GOD THE AUTHOR OF EVIL?

Today I shall go down memory lane. Life can be so complicated and sometimes we are forced to ask and answer some difficult questions. Permit me to ask a few in this contribution. Why do so many people suffer...