Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI AND ASIWAJU TINUBU MEDICAL TOURISM – DISAPPOINTING!

Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief, Muhammadu Buhari, was in London for medical check-up and treatment. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is also in London for medical reasons. We learnt from reports that Asiwaju Tinubu went through knee surgery in a London...

OPINION: ENDING THE 1-0-1 FEEDING CONUNDRUM IN NIGERIA

The contemporary economy of Nigeria, when juxtaposed with the pocket economy of her citizens, is too appalling. An average stakeholder skips lunch on a daily basis while some, observably, eat once a day for sustenance till the next day. ...

OPINION: THAT NIGERIAN YOUTH IN THE ANGWA

Have you lived in the Northern part of Nigeria, if yes, and you understand Hausa you would be familiar with the word "angwa or anguwa".  Angwa is not an ordinary word that translates to neighbourhood but literally means 'slum', a...

OPINION: 2023: TINUBU VS BELLO AND OTHERS

From what we have seen and heard so far, it seems most likely that the race for the 2023 Presidential position would end up as the fiercest, most contested, and perhaps the most controversial since Nigeria's return to civilian...

OPINION: SERENADING THE MUSIC AND EVENTS OF TOKYO OLYMPICS

At last, the games of the XXXII Olympiad (Tokyo 2020) have come and gone. After all the COVID-19 induced delays that saw it held a year later, there is no gainsaying that it still met the razzmatazz associated with...

OPINION: DISSECTING PRESIDENT BUHARI’S LEADERSHIP ROLE IN AFRICA

Once again President Muhammadu Buhari had, in anticipation of the imminent fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban after the United States’ withdrawal after a 20-year sojourn, used his article published in the Financial Times of London on August 16th...