Opinion

CALLING THE NIGERIAN POLICE BACK TO REASON

When I first read the news about police preventing the Rivers State Governor, Chubuike Rotimi Amaechi from entering the government house, I take it as one of those falsified news report concocted to mislead the public, but I after...

DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?

The problem starts with these words, ‘do you know who I am?’ thinking you are somebody, for all the wrong reasons. Yesterday, I was engaging with a Nigerian lawmaker and at some point in the conversation, he catechized me: Do...

RE – UNONGO DID MOT MAKE SUSWAM GOVERNOR

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On August 22nd, 2013, some newspapers, including Leadership and The Nation,  carried a rejoinder by Gov. Gabriel Torwua Suswam to the interview granted by elder statesman and Second Republic Minister of Steel, Wantaregh Paul Unongo, published in the Sunday...

UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF THE FINANCIAL SECTOR

The financial sector refers to the market for the creation and exchange of financial asset such as money, stocks and bond. It is very interesting to note that, it is the financial sector which stimulate and facilitate transactions in the...

MISADVENTURE OF KAWU BARAJE’S NEW PDP

The prognosis by those who have posited that the deliberate factionalization of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is part of the larger plot to stop President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term of office by first decimating the party such...

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS & THE SYNDROME OF ENDANGERED SPECIES

The penultimate week was not the week of federal lawmakers. The endangered species had to come into fresh national prominence to face the rage of the Nigerian people who largely elected them as their representatives from the length and...

KWARA’S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE AND THE BUILD UP TO 2015 ELECTIONS –

Politically, events in the Kwara State’s capital of Ilorin have remained calm until the frenzy similar to that which we usually experience during the preparation for the governorship or at best the presidential elections. The beehive of activities witnessed...

A TIME TO PONDER

Today a great march and protest is taking place in the Catallan region of the ancient and beautiful nation of Spain. According to the polls 52 per cent of the people from that region wish to break off from...

MINISTERIAL SACKING: THIS PRESIDENT JONATHAN IS NOT JUST MAN ENOUGH

In the end we are all sacked and it’s always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated, there comes a day when you are demoted. - Alan Clark You‘re fired! No other words can...

OCHEI’S DTHA RENEWAL

The improvements the present Speaker, Delta State House of Assembly, Engr. Victor Ochei has spearheaded and brought to bear on the Assembly premises have been described severally and variously as ‘impressive’, ‘remarkable’ and ‘unprecedented’. Hitherto, the legislative edifice was...