Opinion

OPINION: 2014: ELECTORAL TASKS AHEAD

“Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy, but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.” – Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher (1724-1804), in Critique of Practical Reason. This year, 2014, will be among the...

OPINION: 2015: IS APC A THREAT TO PDP?

With the successful registration of the All Progressives Congress (APC) by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the 31st of July 2013, there was no doubt that a new of vista of political discuss as we   are presently...

OPINION: SANUSI AND HIS THOUGHTLESS CHALLENGE OF MR. PRESIDENT

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With his recent remark – “I Am Not Resigning Until My Tenure Ends” – Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the embattled Central Bank of Nigeria governor, can be best described as a contentious person. Since his appointment, he never seemed to...

OPINION: AMAECHI AND THE AGONY OF DEMOCRACY IN RIVERS

For some time now, the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.  If he is not abusing or making jest of the President of the Federal Republic and the...

OPINION: ALL HAIL ‘HRH’, SLS, THE EMIR OF CBN

These are heady days for the imperious traditional ruler of the Nigerian financial system, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, who for all intents and purposes can best be described as the Emir, rather than governor, of the Central Bank of Nigeria. ...

OPINION: AKWA IBOM GUBER 2015: THE AWAITED CONSENSUS

At about 6:01pm on the 16th day of April 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis Tennessee, USA, a sniper, through the smoking nozzle of a Remington 760 Gamemaster took the life of one of the world’s finest hearts,...

OPINION: KWANKWASO IS RIGHT ON JONATHAN, BUT…

Let me make my position clear that I am not a fan of President Goodluck Jonathan because of my personal beef with him.  At the same time, my education and religion do not require me to turn a blind...

OPINION: IS 1914 AMALGAMATION A BLESSING OR A CURSE?

In the annals of Nigeria's history; one chapter that has remained till today controversial and very elusive to candid clarification is the amalgamation of 1914. The ill-conceived connubial resolution that brought Southern Nigeria and Northern Nigeria together in 1914 is...

OPINION: FOR ORHII, THANK YOU MR. PRESIDENT!

DR PAUL BOTWEV ORHII   I was on the computer in my sitting room on December 31, 2013, trying to establish contact through the internet with the Redemption Camp to watch and listen to the crossover night message by my pastor,...

OPINION: THE ACT OF LETTER WRITING

One of the first things one learns in a secondary school is on letter writing. We were taught that letter writing is the act of communication between two persons. There is a sender and a receiver. It is the...