Opinion

EKITI GUBER RACE 2014: THE COLLECTIVE RESCUE MISSION IS A MARATHON NOT SLAP DASH

Ever since the unfortunate incident of penultimate Thursday, I have been inundated with calls from my constituents, colleagues, friends and associates both the political and apolitical, from within and outside of Ekiti and indeed Nigeria. This seems to confirm...

TO KILL A CORPSE (IGBU-OZU)

Ekene is an enclave bloke. He has spent a good measure of his life in Ekwulu; a village in Anambra state. Although he has had education up to the secondary level, he takes an aversion to it. The provenance...

OIL THEFT, CHATHAM HOUSE AND THE RIBADU REPORT

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The London-based independent think tank, Chatham House, has just released a damning report on the thriving oil theft in the oil rich Niger Delta region. The report, which is more or less the vindication of similar meticulous investigation done...

BEHIND TIN-CAN’S ENDEMIC TRAFFIC

“The traffic congestion on Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, especially around the Seaport is not only unacceptable, but also injurious to the nation’s economy,” says the Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen. As anyone who has travelled through the Tin-Can Island end of the...

DAME: ICONIC MOBILIZER OF WOMEN

The Nigerian Women Mega Rally has come and gone but the memory of the epoch making event will continue to linger in the hearts of not only women, but in the annals of the nation. The rally brings to...

DID THEY TRICK US INTO SMOKING?

Most smokers would reply that no one tricked them into smoking. It was and has always been their sole decision to smoke. However, when one looks back it is not uncommon to see the different reasons why people, both...

THAT 36 BILLION NAIRA LAGOS PARTIES

When the quintessential Lagos state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola revealed few days ago that more than N36 billion is spent by Lagosians annually to organise parties, he was merely stating a long known and obvious social malady among the...

FROM ABURI TO A LITANY OF BROKEN AGREEMENTS

Nigeria is a mishmash of bad leadership and a history of broken promises. Nigerian leaders seem to have something in common- they can hardly keep to their word. It has a pretty long history. It started in Aburi -...

JONATHAN AND THE PHANTOM ONE-TERM PACT

It is quite interesting the extent the opposition elements in and outside the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have decided to go to feed the Nigerian people with a salad of lies about the phantom one-term pact that President Goodluck...

HOW TO MANAGE INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES IN NIGERIA & SAVE THE ECONOMY & HIGHER EDUCATION FROM BRINK (PART FOUR)

In the part -three of our Public Information on the smokescreen nature of the 2009 Agreement between ASUU and the Federal Government of Nigeria as per solutions to the failed higher education in the country and how less than...