Opinion

OPINION: FUEL SCARCITY: HOW KYARI AND HIS MANAGEMENT TEAM OVERCAME CRITICISM

When we judge or criticise another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.   Following the discovery of Methanol-blended petrol, otherwise known as Off-Spec fuel, by the Nigerian National Petroleum...

OPINION: BEYOND THE TRAGEDY OF UKRAINE

Beyond the tragedy of Ukraine is an age long supremacy battle and ego trip - you may call it existing animosity between both the United States of America and Russia. Ukraine’s unfortunate situation fits into the narrative of a...

OPINION: SOLUDO’S PLANNED VISIT TO OKPOKO

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Each time somebody does or says things that amaze me, I shudder. That was my reaction when the governor-elect of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, announced that he would visit Okpoko shortly after his inauguration. I had my reservations...

OPINION: NNPC’S IMPORT OF KILLER FUEL: CAN MELE KYARI SAY SOMETHING ELSE?

It is pitiable that people occupying positions of trust in this country always find it difficult to own up responsibility when things go wrong by omission or commission in spheres where they hold sway. In the recent importation of...

OPINION: HYPOCRISY OF EMPIRE AND REGIME CHANGERS CAPTURING NUCLEAR PLANTS

There is a dangerous Nuclear Power Plants war game in Ukraine that will not stop there. It can only be stopped by Palace Coup. Swahili proverb says, “when the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.” It's a...

OPINION: WHO IS BUHARI’S 2023 CANDIDATE? 

President Muhammadu Buhari can be inscrutable. Difficult to predict and divine. You cannot tell what he is thinking. And like the old general that he is, he has perfected the art of not telling it all and choosing his...

OPINION: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AND THE GHOST OF “RESTRUCTURING”

Nations’ constitutions are fundamental aspects of their political processes and democratic existence. Many modern states have devoted a considerable amount of time and resources to their constitutional developments. This is because constitutions are products of a nation’s socio-political development....

OPINION: LESSONS FROM OSUN APC GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARY

“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” - Winston Churchill The Osun APC Governorship Primary, won by the incumbent Governor, Gboyega Oyetola, has come...

OPINION: RUSSIA, UKRAINE AND A NIGERIA GESTURE 

It is really sad and disappointing that Russia invaded Ukraine. A country deliberately invaded a neighbouring country in 2022. With all the defence mechanisms set in place to either prevent or end this ugly incident, it still happened. Russia wishes...

OPINION: TAKEAWAYS FROM OYETOLA’S TOUR OF OSUN LGAS

Evidently, the strategic engagement tour, recently embarked upon by Governor Gboyega Oyetola, to all the Local Governments Areas (LGAs) in Osun State, was a veritable look-back mechanism, which afforded him a rare empirical assessment of the public administration journey...