Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA’S AVIATION SECTOR AND THE STELLA ODUAH RAT CHASE

Nigeria's parliamentarians and aviation stakeholders are currently enmeshed in a running battle as they seek to probe the recent purported acquisition of two bulletproof cars by the nation's Aviation Minister, Stella Oduah. The rat chase is such that it is...

OPINION: ARIK AIR; HIGHER AND HIGHER ABOVE THE LAW

When Arik Airline first began operations in Nigeria, it quickly began a household name. ‘Wings of Nigeria’ it was called. With airline services reaching different states in Nigeria. Today however, recent investigations have shown that nothing could be more...

OPINION: OCHEI: ENDURING FOOTSTEPS OF AN UNUSUAL PHILANTHROPIST

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In ageless Africa, it is said that the heart that gives love is humane, but the one that demonstrates care, is simply godly. In simple terms, our ancestors, long ago, realised that while love is desirable, care, its nobler variant,...

OPINION: THE TRIUMPH OF THE WILL

''Do people shape society or does society shape people?'' This is the question of the century and my answer is as follows. The sheer power of vision, creativity and strength that the human mind harbours and is capable of...

OPINION: STELLA ODUAH: OF ETHNIC AND SENSIBLE STORMS

Out of curiosity, I embarked on a random search last week to find out who the most researched person globally is as at the time of my study.  Honestly when the result turned up to be the current revolutionary...

OPINION: A TRIBUTE: FESTUS IYAYI AND THE URGENCY OF NOW

There is no question that troubles the human soul than the cold, stubborn, obtrusive, universal fact of death. Hardly a day passes which does not remind us of death. In these days of evil, death is continually intruding into...

OPINION: OCHEI AND THE DELTA 2015 HOUNDS

DTHA SPEAKER, RT. HON. VICTOR OCHEI   The 2015 elections may be a year and several months away but in Delta State, the impression one gets is that the gubernatorial poll may well be holding tomorrow. While hardly anyone has publicly...

OPINION: ENUGU GOVT HOUSE AND THE CYCLE OF MADNESS

The cycle of madness associated with Enugu State Government House have resonated again with the domestic incarceration of the wife of the Governor, Clara, by the governor, Sullivan, on accounts of acts tending towards madness. The cycle of madness...

OPINION: CLARA CHIME’S ORDEAL AND PRISON REFORMS

But for the courage displayed by Chief Femi Falana, the Lagos based Senior Advocate of Nigeria, most people would have been deceived by the massive media propaganda dished out generously by the spin doctors of governor Sullivan Chime of...

OPINION: THE CHOICE IN THE ANAMBRA ELECTION: IFEANYI UBAH OR A GODFATHER’S MINION

If there is anything that is clear in the run up to the Saturday November 16, 2013 gubernatorial election in Anambra state, it remains the role of the godfather. It is tragic that this same problem of the political godfather,...