Opinion

IS RULING PARTY A RUINED PARTY?

In the foreword to my book titled “Politics and litigation in contemporary Nigeria”, Complete volume which was published in the year 2005, the then Federal Attorney General and minister of Justice Chief Akinlolu Olujimi had stressed the importance of...

PDP SPLIT: ANTECEDENTS OF THE TRAITORS AND BETRAYALS

“I think that Robert E. Lee, as a traitor and betrayer of his solemn oath before God and the Constitution, was a much greater terrorist than Osama Bin Ladin” says Erik Loomis and l add the seven Governors and...

NIGERIA: BUILDING A NATION

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Chinua Achebe once noted in one of his powerful pieces that "Nigeria is a child, gifted, enormously talented, prodigiously endowed and incredibly wayward". In the same piece, he asserted "Being a Nigerian is abysmally frustrating and unbelievably exciting". The...

IF NOT IN NIGERIA?

Much as one tries to mind his business;  focus on his daily occupation, and as such desist from paying much attention to contemporary  issues, certain disturbing  echoes emanating from the polity called Nigeria always provide one with one reason...

DELTA CENTRAL SENATORIAL ELECTION- FESTUS KEYAMO AND HIS DANCE OF SHAME

Do not run a campaign that would embarrass your mother. As I ponder over the political situation of Delta State, I find it more complex because of its hydra headed problems and complication because even some of the masses voices...

NORTHERN ELDERS AND BOKO HARAM

Listening to some persons in Northern Nigeria speaking, one cannot but be tempted to believe that Boko Haram was deliberately hatched by some northern elders to destabilise the government of President Goodluck Jonathan and make the country ungovernable for...

CHIEF FEMI FANI KAYODE IS MY SPOKESMAN

They called him names, pronounced him mental, some even threatened his family members. His crime was that he spoke, not only did he speak, he spoke the truth. This is a very grievous crime to the Igbo. They have...

RE: A DAME’S JAMBOREE

While we have deliberately turned deaf ears and blind eyes to the daily complaints by Nigerians that these mischief making, agent provocateurs, rumour merchants by The Nation newspaper used by political godfathers, political Manfridays to harangue, intimidate and filibuster...

EXTOLLING ONE OF NIGERIA’S THRIVING EXPORTS AT 10

I should have written a piece on Nigeria's flagship in the telecommunications sector but for some inexplicable reasons I demurred. Still, what then incensed me to write refused me respite. Each time I read, watched or heard any of...

AS THE CARNAGE BEGINS

I am proud of the decision that the British Parliament has taken not to join in the attack on Syria. Prime Minister David Cameron has been badly humiliated and this is a great triumph for Ed Milliband, the Leader...