Opinion

NIGERIA WILL LOSE $15MILLION TO CYBER THEFT RELATED CASES BY 2020

Every Nigerian who has reached the age of maturity in one way or the other must have become conversant with the phrase ‘yahoo-yahoo’. This is well known in the country as the act of using the internet to defraud...

SLIPPERY JUSTICE FOR VICTIMS OF OIL SPILLS

Nigerian villagers lose lawsuit against an oil giant In a stunning and dramatic legal ruling that echoed from the serene court chambers in the Netherlands to the heart of rural Niger Delta in Nigeria, the District Court of The Hague...

…OF FANI-KAYODE’S RIBALDRY AND SELF-DESTRUCTION

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In psychology, there is a type of inferiority complex, better understood by illustration than by definition.  For example, the marginal Englishman has a tendency to feel and behave more English than the core Englishman; the peripheral Fulani in Kwara...

NATIONAL CONFERENCE: IT IS TIMELY!

The reports making the waves that the strong man of Lagos politics and former governor, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is alleging that the timing for the confab is wrong, political, suspicious, that it appears to be a Greek gift...

NIGERIA’S TWO-FOR-ONE KOBO POWER PLANTS

Those who are concerned about the systematic killing of the two anti-graft institutions by top governmental officials for their selfish reasons, may not be wrong after all. Reason: the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), one among the two anti-graft...

GOD MAY BE MAN AFTER ALL

Gross proportions of evils, extreme in most turpitudinous complexion have been committed in the name of God. There is no scintilla of wavering argument or doubt that most evils from the devil’s lair itself especially in the 21st century...

NATIONAL CONFAB AND TINUBU’S DUPLICITY

Leader of the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu, recently launched a major attack against the National Conference proposed by President Goodluck Jonathan: he questioned the president’s sincerity and capability to organize such a conference.  Tinubu...

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

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...