Opinion

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...

OPINION: RIVERS: WHERE IS WIKE?

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His voice has gone grave since his friend, Mbu Joseph Mbu, was tossed out of Rivers State, as the Commissioner for Police in the state, under obtrusive circumstances. That’s Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the Supervising Minister for Education. When Mbu...

OPINION: WE ARE BOKO HARAM

As the Boko Haram “intifada” continues to transmogrify in monstrosity; upping the ante in barbarism and savagery, more Nigerians, undoubtedly, will be martyred. This is not a prognosis of doom, but a cringing deduction from the exegesis of the...

OPINION: IN NIGERIA EVERYTHING IS UPSIDE DOWN.

The alleged rift in the Nigerian security team follows the “normal Nigerian situation”: insubordination, ignorance, lack of integrity, lack of protocol, unpatriotic action, bloated egos leading to confrontation, and lack of respect. The truth will eventually emerge and the public...

OPINION: INEC: SHAME ON THE OPPOSITION

One of the earliest lessons I learned from my father, Ilogebe Ogbonnia, the Ikeoha, is that a habit of excuses is an existential catalyst for failure. Nowhere is this adage more evident than the attitude of Nigerian opposition parties...

OPINION: AKPABIO, ASSAM, RUSSIA AND PUNISHMENTS

Last week, as one with a great interest in learning from our leaders, I was drawn to an interview in some local newspapers, not that I like reading interviews, but more because there was something about either the title...

OPINION: AN OPEN LETTER OF PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE NIGERIAN ARMED FORCES

Dear Mr President, A PETITION AGAINST THE EXCLUSION OF NDPVF, NDPSF, MOSOP, IYC AND MASSOB FROM THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE DELEGATES LIST It is with the highest sense of patriotic conviction that I write to convey my reservations against The National Conference...

OPINION: GENERAL ABACHA: HISTORY REMAINS OUR WITNESS

I have followed with a keen interest the controversies and debates that followed Professor Wole Soyinka’s latest piece titled; I regret my share of this National insult after President Jonathan honored the late General Abacha during the Centenary celebration...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM: CAN NORTHERN LEADERS ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY?

Since the outbreak of violent attacks by the Boko Haram insurgents in 2009, the group’s mode of operation, style and pace have changed markedly. Whereas, in the beginning, the attacks were wider in scope and directed mainly at government...