Opinion

OPINION: OBIANO’S PEDIGREE OF DISTINCTIONS FIT TO LEAD ANAMBRA

Elected under the banner of the markedly Igbo-interest APGA party, Willie Maduabuchi Obiano, a banker of international repute, a philanthropist and cultural custodian, a devout Catholic, a friend with a versatile sense for humor and a good son of...

OPINION: ANOTHER AZIKIWE AND THE SECOND NIGER BRIDGE

50 years after, another Azikiwe has taken concrete steps to link the industrious South-Eastern part of Nigeria to the rest of the country by a second bridge over the River Niger that would mainly link the "traders" to their...

OPINION: RIVERS: WHERE IS WIKE? (PART 2)

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The soul of Barr Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the Supervising Minister for Education, is wedded to tribulation. Nigerians are not sure when he would disdain his gullibility, droopiness, condescension, fluctuation, amongst others. In February this year, Wike in his contemptuous manners...

OPINION: THE NIGERIAN POLICE AND THE ORDEAL OF BATTERED WOMEN

This is a the story of Beatrice, Solomon and the Nigerian Police. Beatrice is not her real name for privacy reasons, but all other names, including those of the Police Officers are real. When Beatrice (not her real name for...

OPINION: THE POWER OF PASSION AND THE SPIRIT OF THE WARRIOR

Until you hear the Scotsman play the bagpipes in the early morning mist of the Scottish highlands, you have heard nothing. Until you hear the Irish maiden sing ''O Danny Boy'' on the lush green fields of the Emerald...

OPINION: KALU’S SPIRIT OF GIVING

In two separate donations to the ten communities of Igbere in Bende of Abia State, ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu donated four hundred bags of rice and two million naira to the people. Igbere, being his country...

OPINION: SECOND NIGER BRIDGE: JONATHAN AS JINX BREAKER

The jinx that has bedeviled the NB2, otherwise called the Second Niger Bridge, is finally broken.  Last Monday (March 10, 2014), President Goodluck Jonathan performed the historic ground-breaking ceremony for the second bridge across the Niger to link the...

OPINION: ANAMBRA 2014 – REBIRTH OR RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY

As Anambra prepares to ring out the old and ring in the new administration, the stakes and challenges can’t be any higher. The State is at a precipice with a weary population that have suffered and endured so much...

OPINION: FASHOLA’S SCORES A BULL’S EYE WITH AN AMBITIOUS HOME SCHEME TO CREATE 200 LANDLORDS MONTHLY.

If not for the high reputation Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola  has in the last six years established as someone who keeps his word religiously, most people would not have given him the benefit of the doubt when he...

OPINION: JONATHAN’S PLACE IN EMPOWERING NIGERIAN WOMEN

Saturday, March 8, 2014, was this year’s International Women’s Day, the first of which was celebrated in 1911. The celebration is a reminder of the plight of women all over the world while it marks their economic, political and...