Opinion

OPINION: COLONEL KABIRU SALISU–91 DAYS WITH BOKO HARAM

A man is wearing black, black shoes, socks, trousers, lumper gloves. He is walking down a black street with all the street lamps off. A black car is coming towards Him its lights off but somehow manages to stop...

OPINION: NIGERIAN PRESIDENCY, THE BRITISH AND THE INVENTION OF BOKO HARAM

In Nigeria’s political arrangement, the President is the highest office. Over the years the picture that has been presented to the world is Nigeria as a majority Islamic country. As we go further down we will see how this...

OPINION: XYZ MASSACRE: WE WANT A REVOLUTION, THEY WANT A WAR

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Which massacre? Yobe? Borno? Adamawa? Plateau? Katsina? Kaduna? Benue? Nasarawa? The hashtag, “#XYZmassacre” has become the inevitably appropriate marker for the Nigerian holocaust. 50 here, 250 there, death comes easy in the north these days. Conservative United States estimates...

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

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: FISCAL FEDERALISM, TIV INTEREST AND ETHNICITY

       A LEAD PAPER PRESENTATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ETHNIC MINORITY AGITATIONS AND NIGERIAN POLITICS: REFLECTIONS ON THE TIV “REVOLTS” OF 1964: 50 YEARS AFTER @ BENUE STATE UNIVERSITY, MAKURDI, NIGERIA. APRIL, 2014. INTRODUCTION The main reason for the Tiv “revolts” of the 1960s...

OPINION: PATIENCE JONATHAN, NYESOM WIKE AND POLITICS OF SUCCESSION IN RIVERS STATE

The latest news in town is that the wife of the Nigerian President, Dame Patience Jonathan has anointed three of his sons to take over as Governors of Rivers, Bayelsa and Bauchi states. To many of us, it is...

OPINION: THAT’S A BOOBY TRAP: PRESIDENT JONATHAN SAYS, REJECTING NEEDED CAMPAIGN EXPENSES REGULATION

The Nigerian president, Goodluck Jonthan in Abuja Monday, rejected recommendations for the regulation of campaign expenses, submitted to him by the former Senate President Ken Nnamani headed National Stakeholders’ Forum on Electoral Reform. Goodluck challenged Nigerians to advocate a...

OPINION: THE FRAUD FROM NIGERIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND 2015

Afraid of the impending defeat in the forthcoming elections, the ruling party PDP has imported economic magicians from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics to wet the ground for them in preparation for the 2015 Presidential Elections. In the next...

OPINION: 2015: THE SEARCH FOR POLITICAL SAINT (2)

The search for God fearing, capable and responsive leaders that will serve in various capacities come 2015 is on. Hear what the Bible says: “I look for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land....

OPINION: ON FASHOLA’S THEORY OF LEADERSHIP AND CHURCH ATTENDANCE.

I was stunned when I read the various headlines about the comments made by Governor Raji Fashola regarding the President and his habit of worshipping at a church every Sunday. There were various headlines, but the one by one...