Opinion

OPINION: OF LAGOS GENTLEMEN AND ABUJA PATRIOTS

There is a sign that will confront an African hunter setting off for the night’s job in a distant forest and he will call off the hunt instantly. Like his left toe hitting an object as he saunters out,...

OPINION: RAPE AS SOCIAL HAZARD

The rate at which rape is becoming rampant in the society is quite alarming. The most dreadful part of it is the fact that people do not get raped in confined places outside their homes these days, but right...

OPINION: CONFLICTING COURT JUDGEMENTS, AND NJC’S INTERVENTION AS MEDICINE AFTER DEATH

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While it has long been suspected by Nigerians that court judgements are often given in favour of the highest bidder, a series of embarrassing judgements by courts with concurrent jurisdictions over the tenure of the chairmanship of People’s Democratic...

OPINION: JINXES BROKEN BY THE MUHAMMADU BUHARI ADMINISTRATION – PRESIDENCY

A giant-sized jinx was broken recently when the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) announced a first Net Profit in the 44-year history of the organization. Under President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as Minister for Petroleum Resources, the oil conglomerate...

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

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...