Opinion

OPINION: OBASANJO AND JONATHAN: ANOTHER LOVE LETTER…

Baba Obasanjo, sir, I read your love letter to President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan with delight; at times with sobriety; and at other times with disgust. I am sure when you read to the end of my love letter to...

OPINION: IF THERE WAS ONE THING I COULD CHANGE TO IMPROVE EDUCATION IN MY COUNTRY…

Reading culture is dying in Nigeria. A tiny number out of about 160 million people have healthy reading habits institutionalised. Majority just enlist into various schools. Many have graduated. They are all for the obtainment of certificates. This habit...

OPINION: MICHAEL UBOGU: THE PILLAR OF GRASSROOTS SPORTS IN NIGERIA

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High Chief Michael Orobosa Ubogu, the Managing Director of Micura Services limited recently organized first Micura soccer championship at the Nigerian Navy Barracks field, Mobil Road Apapa in Lagos. It was a sports event that drew mighty sports lovers...

OPINION: OLUSEGUN OBASANJO: THE FRUSTRATION OF A DEFEATED AND FAILED GODFATHER.

Seriously, one would have taken General Obasanjo’s letter to President Jonathan seriously but for the last paragraph of the 18-page letter. Please hear General Obasanjo out “I crave your indulgence to share the contents of this letter, in the first...

OPINION: VICTOR OGENE AT 47: A LEGISLATOR WITH EXTRA-ORDINARY LEGACIES

Hon Victor Afam Ogene is the present member and the Deputy Chairman on Public affairs Committee of the Federal House of Representatives representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency of Anambra State. He is also the publisher of the popular community newspaper...

OPINION: TEMPLATE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS: LOVERS OF PLEASURE OR LOVERS OF GOD? (2)

Do none of you indulge in pleasures which you suspect are not entirely innocent, for which your consciences reprove you after you return from them, and which you sometimes find it difficult to justify, even to yourselves? Do you...

OPINION: GOD FATHERISM DOES NOT WORK IN NIGERIA. OBASANJO OUGHT TO KNOW THIS.

God fatherism has seldom worked in Nigeria even thought it has been tried for a very long time in Nigeria’s history. Current efforts by many Nigerian leaders to create their successors will fail like the ones before them. The...

OPINION: ARCHITECH OF NEW OGUN STATE

"The whole world step aside for the man that knows where he is going"—Johnnie Walker Quality is never ubiquitous. It is always for the discerning. The event was not particularly grandiose. Even the organiser doesn’t pretend it was meant to...

OPINION: JUDE AGBASO, EFCC AND IMO STATE

In 2011  Jude Agbaso, a young man  was made deputy governor of Imo state via the political connection of  his  elder brother Martin Agbaso . Jude had no idea about governance. He knew nothing about  politics . He had...

OPINION: DEBUNKED: THE HAROLD SMITH NIGERIA CENSUS LIES

It is perhaps one of the most famously quoted references on the Nigerian blogosphere, particularly in ethnic squabbles. You probably heard or read it before if you are active on the Nigerian online community. Equivalent to the Holy Grail...