Opinion

OPINION: KALU AND OBASANJO UNENDING WRANGLE

Human beings are politicians by their speech. A John Mason Brown said that nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics. Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, a former Governor of Abia State...

OPINION: 15,000 VIOLENT DEATHS SINCE JONATHAN TOOK OVER

Have you seen the Nigeria Security Tracker, NST? It is free to view online on the CFR (Council of Foreign Relations) US think-tank website. In fact I think it is the only tracker on the website. Simply visit...

OPINION: AFRICA AS THE CHEETAH

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OPINION: CHAIRMAN DEY SLEEP IN NIGERIA

Originally the title of this admonition was Toothbrush Politics, but I decided to bring it to my readers in an every day life manner. What I am about to say may seem extremely simplistic but it is a vivid reminder...

OPINION: BALA MOHAMMED: A LESSON IN BLAME GAME

Nigeria is richly blessed, no doubt. But the question that lingers is what is this country blessed richly with? Most uninitiated minds on seeing this question will immediately locate the answer to this interrogatory on a very wrong footed...

OPINION: JONATHAN’S WET-BLANKET APPOINTEES

These days, some news in the media elicit so much angst that you cannot help but laugh at the ineptitude that passes off as ministerial duties.  On the other hand, one wonders why some public officers think that some...

OPINION: WHY THE NIGER-DELTA OIL “BELONGS TO JIGAWA”

Many of us have been inspired by the speech given by a former Minister, and co-founder of Transparency International, Ms Obiageli (Oby) Ezekwesili a.k.a. “Madam due process,” at the APC summit which held in Abuja, March 6th, 2014. I...

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)

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...