Opinion

OPINION: OSUN AT 30: ISIAKA ADELEKE AS A UNIVERSAL CITIZEN WITH STERLING RECORDS

We give adulation to God, that some of us are still living to witness the 30th Anniversary of the creation of Osun State Osun, our dear state of living spring. I bring her citizen salutation on behalf of Senator...

OPINION: MAJOR THREATS TO TRUE FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA

Federalism is said to be a system of government in which the powers of government are constitutionally shared between the central government and regional units in such a way that each level of government is independent and autonomous. In...

OPINION: FIRST IN CLASS 0F EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP

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Unhappy is the country whose leader is not properly educated. Going to school is a matter of urgent national importance unless Nigerians want to submit to the thesis of Boko Haram that “Western education is unwanted.” Incidentally, coming first in...

OPINION: FALLACIES OF ETHNIC AGENDAS

The fear of ethnic domination is as old as Nigeria. Mutual recriminations and suspicions have been the scourge of Nigeria's cohesive development. The South-East says it is the North, and the North points the finger back; the South-West looks...

OPINION: THE RISE OF THE NEW DEADLY FEMME FATALES

The new breed of femme fatales is young, pretty – and they can kill you! The on-going case of Chidinma Ojukwu has gripped – and shocked – the nation and the one question everybody is asking is why did a...

OPINION: MR. PRESIDENT, OUR PEOPLE SAY, ‘NO TO OPEN GRAZING.’

As much as, as hard as the president may press for an open grazing in Nigeria, it would not just work. There is no law and no power would make open grazing allowed in Nigeria, especially in the southern...

OPINION: OSUN APC, LET REASON PREVAIL!

Let me start by making a categorical statement: this intervention is not aimed at apportioning blame to any of the factions, so to say, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) currently at daggers drawn in Osun State. On the contrary, it is intended to be a gentle nudge on all...

OPINION: ISSUES IN HIGHWAY CONCESSION

The Federal Government has released a Ministerial notice for the commencement of the process of concessions or leasing 12 highways in the six geopolitical zones to private sector operators. It is under the Highway Development Management Initiative (HDMI), being...

OPINION: GOVERNOR FAYEMI AND THE BONDING IDEAL

The hot button in Nigeria today is to crow of secession. It does not matter if the jumped-up secessionist leader can in truth tell the boundaries of his dream nation. The really appalling aspect of the matter is that...

OPINION: A YEAR AFTER: UNCOUNTABLE DEVELOPMENTS

Both time and moments are separate but distinct realities. They are both real but, at a point, one ceases from the realm of conscious reality. Whereas time is a recurring phenomenon, moments are recorded in time. Still, it lives...