Opinion

PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S CONFUSION ABOUT NATIONAL DIALOGUE

President Jonathan announced on October 1, 2013 his intention to convoke a national conference at which there would be no issues excluded from discussion. He then inaugurated on October 7, 2013 a committee he charged to come up with...

CHRISTIANITY UNDER EXTINCTION IN NIGERIA-LAUSANNE CONGRESS, CAN, PFN

Bishops, Pastors and Church leaders attending the Lousanne Congress 2013 holding at Wisdom Cathedral, Abuja has unanimously agreed that Christianity in Nigeria is under heavy attacks and assaults by ethnocentrism, militancy, homosexualism, materialism and worldliness. They warned that if...

NATIONAL CONFERENCE TOO CRITICAL TO BE LEFT TO THE FLIP-FLOPPING PRESIDENCY

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Since I first made known my initial reaction to President Jonathan’s proposed National Dialogue/Conference, the daggers have been out against me. The paid public relations gangs of the administration and some sympathizers have gone into overdrive in the media...

TEA PARTY ON FIRE PUTS WORLD MARKETS ON EDGE

Regardless of final agreement, time will tell if Tea Party has not already damaged U.S.A. United States financial analysts are trying to reassure the world markets that there is nowhere else to go. Well, think again because there is...

CHANGING NOTIONS OF MASCULINITY, PREVENTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

In Bangladesh, a man forced into marriage vents his frustration by beating his wife when she disobeys him. In Cambodia, a husband justifies slapping his wife on the grounds that she must have done something she shouldn’t. In Indonesia,...

TO SPEAK OR NOT TO SPEAK

I used to believe that Nigerians who reside abroad – especially those in North America, Europe and the UK – were, on the whole, more likely than their home-based fellows to act as catalysts for positive change and good...

A FEW WORDS ON THE CHALLENGES IN THE AVIATION SECTOR

I have heard people call for the sack of Minister for Aviation Stella Oduah. Some of the loudest voices calling for her head include the cantankerous Femi Fani-Kayode and more recently Lagos based activist Bamidele Aturu. They say there has...

A SWIPE AT THE 2013 NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

Until recently when the Nobel Committee swiftly presented the 2009 award to President Barack Obama who had just occupied the Oval Office, promising to effect a change in the hawkish, hegemonic and aggressive nature of American foreign policy which...

ENOUGH OF WAR OF CALUMNY AGAINST EMEKA OFFOR

We are known for our hard work, industriousness and forthrightness.  We are Oraifite people and Oraifite means Ora group and Ifite means people and putting them together means group of people living together with common custom and traditions. Oraifite...

TAKE BACK 1993: WHEN NIGERIA REVOLTED AND THE RECOVERY OF A HIJACKED REVOLUTION

Will you leave your pearls with a thief believing he has changed? Will you wait and hope that a thief you leave your pearls with will change? Will you write and protest that a thief you leave your pearls...