Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA AND THE MAKING OF MINT NATIONS

The nomenclatures of economic trading blocs are becoming numerous: It all started with G8, the great eight largest economies, G20 and then BRICS, organization of five major emerging national economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Now comes...

OPINION: SAVE ROTIMI AMAECHI, NOT RIVERS PEOPLE…

There is an African adage which says that it is the fly that refuses to heed advice that follows the corpse into the grave. Before the APC rally that took place in Ogoniland on Saturday, 25th January, 2014, elders...

OPINION: THE FASHOLA WE DO NOT KNOW

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I must confess that in the last few years I have been a secret admirer of Governor Babatunde Fashola for just two simple reasons: he has elevated governance in Nigeria to a very high pedestal so much so that...

OPINION: RE: OKONJO-IWEALA’S TEDXEUSTON BLUNDER ON WAIVERS

I remember in those days at the Unibadan campus when we were doing out bits in campus journalism and we used to be thrilled by the breed of investigative journalists at Tell, Newswatch, and Punch who then risked their...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM: THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR AS RELIGIOUS WAR

“We are...calling on Muslims in this part of the world to be well prepared because, very soon, we would launch a full scale war between the Muslims and the Christians.” Abubakar Shekau declared in February, 2011. In the interest of those...

OPINION: JONATHAN’S SWEET SONG AT DAVOS

For die-hard critics of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, anything that tends to suggest that his administration is doing well or that Nigeria is moving forward, should not be allowed to fly. There are those who belong to the group...

OPINION: APC AND “LIE” MOHAMMED, AGAIN!

Must Lai Mohammed lie to be relevant in the All Progressives Congress (APC)? Even when other discerning members of his party make public statements that are devoid of the bias that has been his lot, he declares the opposite...

OPINION: BILLIONAIRE HOUSE HELPS

Nigeria’s (misnamed) Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the schedule for the 2015 set of general “elections.” The presidential and National Assembly “elections” will be held on February 14, 2015, followed by state “elections” on February 28, 2015. I...

OPINION: WHEN WILL OUR SHACKLES BE BROKEN?

On the 20th April 1653 Oliver Cromwell, who was the Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland and the greatest statesman and revolutionary that England ever knew, stormed the English ''Rump Parliament'' at Westminster and courageously pronounced the following...

OPINION: NIGERIA DANCING DISCO WITH ELECTRICITY

When question drop for mouth, Question go start to run, When answer drop for mouth, Answer go run after am, When answer jam question for road Another thing go shele o, uh Why you mash my leg for ground? You no see my leg for road? Question...