Opinion

OPINION: SUBJECT: 12 YEARS A SLAVE AND THE CASE FOR REPARATIONS

I have just finished watching the film titled ''12 Years A Slave''. I couldn't stop weeping from the beginning to the end of it and frankly I am at a loss for words. This was a masterpiece. It was...

OPINION: THE RECRUITMENT TRAGEDY AND THE FESTERING SORE OF A COUNTRY AT CROSSROAD.

The country was treated again to another round of calamities last weekend. Scores of our youths who went to participate in the national swindle orchestrated by the leadership of the Nigeria Immigration Service, in conjunction with the Ministry of...

OPINION: THE BLOODY YOUTHS UNEMPLOYMENT

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This is not the first time Nigeria nation would be presiding over the butchering of her citizens on account of elusive job scam. This perhaps, is the single most organised wanton and grim harvest of deaths in such instance,...

OPINION: NORTH UNDER SIEGE: HELICOPTERS NOW EMPLOYED BY TERRORISTS

More than Three Nigerian dailies have reported on the apparent use of helicopters by terrorists operating in the burning north of Nigeria. A March 18th article in Tribune , a March 23rd article in THISDAY, a March 21stDailyTrust report...

OPINION: IMMIGRATION RECRUITMENT FIASCO AND A NEW ‘RESPONSIVE’ JONATHAN

The earthly transition to the Saints triumphant on January 13th 2014 of my beloved father and best friend Mazi Cyprian Okorieocha Onwubiko taught me that there are significant events that happen in our lives that have transformative value chain....

OPINION: CONFAB AND FALLACY OF EXAGGERATED EXPECTATION

“Comrade Onwubiko, I didn’t see your name on the list of delegates to the national conference”, was the exact statement presented in a most melodious tones by a middle-age lady and a staunch member of the Peoples Democratic Party...

OPINION: JONATHAN AND ZERO ALLOCATION FOR AJAOKUTA STEEL

"One thing that is dear to Nigerians is the Ajaokuta Steel Complex and until we revive that complex, we cannot talk about Vision 20:2020. This is because for you to play big globally, you must industrialize and for you...

OPINION: IGBO RACE, CONFAB 2014 AND IKE NWACHUKWU ON THE SPOTLIGHT OF HISTORY

I will say, that of a truth, the anger of Nigerians, which am fully part of, is multi-frontal: religion, ethnic, economic, educational and indeed and surely to mention, the evil called quota system. The tragedy of last week voodoo...

OPINION: SENATOR OJUDU: A LAMB AMONG WOLVES

On December 13th, 2011, Senator Babafemi Ojudu while a Senator of the ACN party, read out a provoking speech in Akure during the marking of Nigerian Union of Journalists week, warning clearly about the impending fuel subsidy removal and...

OPINION: THROWING JOBS AT THE BEREAVED: MORE INSULT ON NATIONAL INJURY

One of the President’s few remaining ardent supporters, I think it was Bafarawa, said ‘Jonathan is still learning.’ This was an admission of incapacity for sure but was not a reassuring and actually accurate statement, evidence proves. What is...