Opinion

OBAFEMI AWOLOWO: HERO OF YORUBA, KILLER OF BIAFRA, BETRAYED BY THE NORTH

Obafemi Awolowo is the undisputed hero of the Yoruba tribe of Nigeria whose wartime policy of starvation and currency change helped kill the Biafran dream. The post colonial era of Nigerian history was dominated by three actors, Nnamdi Azikiwe,...

QUESTIONS FOR SENATOR BWACHA

Senator Emmanuel Bwacha is fast gaining popularity as a political irritant. He has thrown caution to the wind in his desperation to become governor of Taraba state by any means possible. The senator has lost his sense of decorum,...

A WORD FOR THOSE THAT CALL ME A TRIBALIST

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Those that call me a tribalist are simply misguided. Perhaps they do not know the meaning of the word or its true import. Those that know me well can confirm the fact that I am not a tribalist, a...

TWENTY-NAIRA POLICEMAN: IN MEMORIAM

I hereby mourn the demise of my dearest friend, the ubiquitous Twenty-Naira policeman, who was heartlessly made to kick the bucket by Inspector-General of Police MD Abubakar. Oi! Oi! Oi! This monumental loss is indeed very tragic for me...

NDIGBO AND FANI-KAYODE’S CRASS IRRESPONSIBILITY

Once again, the Muslim feast of Eid-el-Fitr has come and gone and Nigerian leaders, as usual, used the opportunity to preach the gospel of peace and unity. Nigeria , they insisted, is the handiwork of God. President Goodluck Jonathan upped...

A CULTURE OF LOW EXPECTATIONS

One of the most tragic aspects of Nigeria’s aborted promise is that too many Nigerians have now imbibed a terrible culture of low expectations. They look daily at the series of crises bedeviling their country, and they manage, somehow,...

CNB SUCCESSION: THE NEED TO LOOK INWARD

In less than ten months the tenure of incumbent governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi would have come to an end and unless the trend Nigerians are used to the man at the helms...

DAVID MOYES’s ONLY MISTAKES, SO FAR

One of the sterling qualities Sir Alex Ferguson maintained during his 26 year reign at Manchester United was his strategic and covert ways of handling transfer issues and player dissent, he did manage some of the biggest and the...

ROTIMI AMAECHI: HIS OWN WORST ENEMY?

In a recent interview on an online channel TV360, the current Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi stated that President Jonathan and his wife were bent on removing him from office as Governor of Rivers State. See video here...

DEBATE ON ELECTRICITY TARIFF

Miss. Asabe Abdulsallami is a 26 year old graduate of industrial chemistry from one of the upscale privately run Universities owned by one of the very flourishing Pentecostal Churches.  She recently graduated in flying colors and served in...