Opinion

THE CURSE OF POWER

This is a grim and depressing essay and the subject matter is painful to digest. I take no pleasure in writing it and I would suggest that those that are easily hurt, over-sensitive and unduly emotional should stop here...

AS NORTH BUYS IN ON STATE POLICE

In a recent conversation with a friend from Northern Nigeria, I came out with the idea that an average Northerner just like his/her opposite number from the South is much more concerned about co-existing peacefully in a United Sovereign...

THE MACHIAVELLIAN GATES

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“Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime” - Honoré de Balzac The name Bill Gates means different personality to different people. To the Dangotes, he is the yardstick for measuring success and building business empires. To many academicians,...

BECOMING A RESPONSIBLE, CONFIDENT AND SAFE DRIVER

Driving is a serious responsibility with physical and mental abilities impacting on the driving activities of a driver. It is more than moving a vehicle and knowing how to use the accelerator, brake pedals and steering. Driving is at...

EXCESSIVE SPEED AS A VITAL HUMAN FACTOR IN ROAD TRAFFIC ACCIDENT

Driving is a means to achieve objectives associated with everyday life in our society. At the same time, driving requires a serious responsibility that determine the driver’s safety and that of the other road users within the vicinity. We...

BECOMING A RESPONSIBLE, CONFIDENT AND SAFE DRIVER

Driving is a serious responsibility with physical and mental abilities impacting on the driving activities of a driver. It is more than moving a vehicle and knowing how to use the accelerator, brake pedals and steering. Driving is at...

SUSWAM’S DEADLY BLOW TO BENUE APC

One is no longer at a lost over why President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan seem not to be disturbed about the activities of 7 Governors on the ticket of the People's Democratic Party over what they described as lack of...

ANDREW AZAZI, YUSHAU SHUAIB, FESTUS ODIMEGWU AND THE REST OF US

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human...

NIGERIA POLICE: BETWEEN REFORMATION AND DEFORMATION

There is no doubt that right now the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has become notoriously incompetent, professionally inefficient and the ranks and file have almost successfully turned the nation’s policing institution into another failed national asset due largely to...

WORK SLAVERY IN NIGERIA

The damning report of the Australian anti-slavery campaign group, The Walk Free Foundation that Nigeria sweeps the board in mustering the highest number of people living in modern slavery in Africa is not only on the threshold of verifiable...