Opinion

OPINION: IS THE FG REALLY IGNORING BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY?

Is there something wrong with elders these days that they think with their anus?  Everywhere we turn these days in Nigeria, our elders are spewing forth what is less than elderly.  If it is not from Niger Delta region...

OPINION: NIGERIANS DRINK POISON AS ‘SOFT ‘DRINKS

Williams Shakespeare, the English Poet and Playwright was the one that stated thus; "Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear". This wise saying came home to our consciousness only this week when the new management...

OPINION: BORNO AND THE CHANGING DYNAMICS OF BOKO HARAM

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News of the surging violence by the shadowy sect, Boko Haram, has continued to inundate us even if some no longer shudder at screaming headlines of dozens whose throats have been slit; the extremists have sustained the ongoing brutal...

OPINION: SANUSI’S SUSPENSION IS OVERDUE

I whole-heartedly welcome the suspension of Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi as Governor of Central Bank by President Goodluck Jonathan. He cannot fairly hold on to his office whilst his weighty allegations of missing funds are being forensically audited. Indeed,...

OPINION: WHAT APC STANDS FOR IN NIGERIA

Ever since the All Progressives Congress (APC) entered the stage few months back, many have been asking to know the difference between PDP and APC. Given the mass exodus from PDP to APC, some Nigerians say the APC is...

OPINION: UMARU MUSA YAR’ADUA: THE LEGACY OF A PRESIDENT

At a slippery point in time in Nigeria's history and indeed the history of Africa, where decent leadership is elusive and desperation triumphs; where the people have given up on integrity and the possibility of upright anti corrupt leadership....

OPINION: AS THE IGBO BECOME A MINORITY IN NIGERIA

The Igbo today are groping in a labyrinth of confusion; a labyrinth that they have knitted together out of humongous morsels of selfishness, avarice and ignorance. And as they waltz in the ball of anodyne confusion their status or...

OPINION: BORNO MAYHEM VERSUS EMPTY RHETORIC

Picking a copy of Daily Sun of Monday February 17th 2014, I immediately had a traumatic emotional shock by the level of carnage and savage attack on humanity that has now become so unbearably painful and pathetic. The cover...

OPINION: NNPC CONTROVERSY: BETWEEN CBN AND MINISTRY OF FINANCE

I have followed, with keen interest, the controversy surrounding the unaccounted federation account funds involving the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). It will be recalled that the CBN Governor, Mallam Lamido Sanusi...

OPINION: APC AND “CHANGE”: THE AREGBESOLA EXAMPLE

Not only is it trending on some social media platforms, the question of how the All Progressives Congress (APC) is going to achieve the “change” the party is promising is a topical issue.  The subject is relevant because many...