Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA A TRUE DEMOCRACY UNDER JONATHAN, ALBEIT MARKETPLACE STYLE

We are enjoying a true democracy in Nigeria at the moment; most especially so these last few months to the next elections. A true democracy is a government for the people, of the people and by the people. In...

OPINION: THE “JANJAWEED” AGENDA IN BUHARI-TINUBU TICKET

When the All Progressives Congress (APC) took strong exceptions to being clad in a Janjaweed toga by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), many sympathized with the party, and rightly so, because it was feared that if religion was allowed...

OPINION: 2015: ATIKU SIDELINED AGAIN?

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If the news from the All Progressives Congress is any indication of how things are shaping up in the party of “change,” then it appears recent Nigerian political history is repeating itself, at least where it concerns former Vice...

OPINION: THE SEDITION CHARGE AGAINST EBERE WABARA

On Friday, March 28, 2014, I was taken aback when I first read about the arrest of Mr. Ebere Wabara, a veteran journalist and associate editor with the Sun Newspaper on the facebook wall of a Port-Harcourt based media...

OPINION: BUHARI/TINUBU TICKET, THIS APC’S SUICIDE MISSION.

I received a news alert this morning that the All Progressive Congress popularly called the Angry People Congress (APC) was going to field Alhaji (Gen) Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Ahmed Bola Tinubu as their presidential candidate and running mate...

OPINION: NO THANKS TO ABDULLAHI

When Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi was dropped from the federal cabinet a few weeks ago, the consensus was that he was one of the best ministers in the Federal Executive Council and that competence was sacrificed on the alter of...

OPINION: A CASE FOR QUALITY EDUCATION

In recent years, unemployability has become one of the leading causes of unemployment. Yes, you read that right - our youths and graduates, are simply unemployable. A good percentage of people who spent years acquiring degrees in our Nigerian...

OPINION: HEEDING THE PRESIDENTIAL COUNSEL ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

Last year’s prolonged strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, threw up several issues relating to the sustained development of Nigerian public universities, especially in the areas of teaching, learning and research. One of the positives...

OPINION: SURRENDERING NIGERIA TO USA CONTROL

In the years after 1960 Nigerian Independence and many other African nations’ independence, the most resented action in Africa was “meddling in Nigeria’s or African Affairs” by “Colonial Powers” or other nations. No foreign power would comment on Nigerian/...

OPINION: 2015: POLITICS OF BILLBOARDS, ENDORSEMENT AND TURN-BY-TURN

These are interesting times. The atmosphere is getting frenzy and the excitement is bursting. Billboards are springing up and posters have defaced Abuja and other Capitals cities and towns. Some urging the President to run in 2015 while some...