Opinion

OPINION: THE LORD IS HERE, BUT GOD IS HARD TO FIND

Things have never been so bleak for believers today. The world is going through unprecedented economic challenges. Security in an increasingly insecure world is one of today’s most sought often – and elusive – commodities – security for the...

OPINION: ABBA MORO AND THE WAR ON THE POOR

I was going to title this piece, “Why is Abba Moro Still a Minister?” but changed my mind. In the context of Nigeria, the answer to the question seemed rather obvious. Nigeria is ravaged by human-made poverty. A society...

OPINION: THE TURKEY ARMS TO NIGERIAN TERRORISTS MESS

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By now a responsible Nigerian government would have done certain things. Either they announce to us that they take this information and threat to national security very serious and are investigating it fully, but assure Nigerians that there is...

OPINION: WHAT NIGERIA MUST DO TO SECURE A TOTAL VICTORY IN THE CURRENT WAR AGAINST BOKO-HARAM TERRORISTS

I have always told myself that there are things I will never feel normal enjoying as a human being. But I don’t know what has happened to me. Of late my taste and appetite have gone beyond food, drink,...

OPINION: NIGERIA: THIS LEADERSHIP IS CURSED

We are a traditional people. We are not Oyinbo. We understand the portents. We know of evil and spirits. We know of God and the devil; of angels and demons; good and bad Jinns (Genies). Forget all this democracy...

OPINION: NIS RECRUITMENT TRAGEDY: THE BLAME GAME CONTINUES

The Nigeria’s Interior Minister, Abba Moro is supposed to be the first person to throw in the towel after the unmitigated disaster that has been the NIS Recruitment Fraud last Saturday March 15 2014, where 20 Nigerians died 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...

OPINION: YOUTHS EMPLOYMENT: BLOOD ON THE PRESIDENCY

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: THE IMMIGRATION RECRUITMENT TRAGEDY AND A CRUMBLING NATION

More than the morbid count that emerged from the ill-fated recruitment exercise of the Nigerian Immigration Services last week, the graphic illustration of nearly a million Nigerians packed like sardines in stadia and various public places all over Nigeria,...

OPINION: JONATHAN’S TRANSFORMATION OF THE EDUCATION SECTOR

Education is the process of cultivating the human person and inculcating in him or her qualities that differentiate us from other animals.  Whether formal or informal, education makes it possible for the individual, not only to understand him or...