Opinion

OPINION: PATHWAYS TO ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION IN NIGERIA

Ecosystem refers to a dynamic relationship involving a community or group of living organisms interacting with one another in a specific environment. An ecosystem being a community of living things or organisms (biotic) interacts with non-living (edaphic) components of...

OPINION: CONSTITUTIONALISM: TIME TO TINKER WITH CONFAB ’94 REPORT

Federal lawmakers have been travelling round the country to sample public opinion on how best to review the amended 1999 Constitution that was hastily prepared by the military. Of course, the exercise, like the previous ones, has cost the...

OPINION: CHALLENGE FACING FAROUK YAHAYA

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The appointment of Major-General Farouk Yahaya as the new Chief of Army Staff   on May 27, 2021, has generally elicited loud endorsements from Nigerians. His appointment followed the sudden demise of his predecessor, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru, who died in...

OPINION: THE CARICATURE KING

I want to tell you a story... "Story story". There was a king in the land of the plenty who considered himself above humanity to the extent his people even ascribed godlike attributes to him. He was daily showered with encomiums...

OPINION: WE LOST TB JOSHUA, HEAVEN GAINED A GEM -ADIEU! MAN OF GOD!

The Death of Pastor TB Joshua, ably referred to as "Man of God," came to me as a rude shock. I have known Pastor TB Joshua personally since 2011 through the late Dr. FREDERICK FASEHUN,  and we became even...

OPINION:THIS BIAFRA MATTER: A COCONUT SHELL FULL OF WATER IS AN OCEAN TO AN ANT.

It was in November 2015 that I wrote "I fear going to Biafra", that fear is probably real and palpable now, but hey wait, before I am asked if I want short or long sleeves, let us reason together...

OPINION: OML 118 DISPUTE RESOLUTION: KYARI’S LEGENDARY LEADERSHIP AND NIGERIA’S NEXT BILLION BARRELS

Mother Nature has a way of depositing its vast treasures wherever it pleases. In the wonderful world of hydrocarbons, these resources are either placed onshore (on land) or offshore (in water). Beneath the hidden depths of world’s seas ranging...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY: MONEY, LORD’S NAME, PROTESTS & DESTRUCTION

The expression more money than god, is common – when referring to the ultrarich. The exclamatory Jesus Christ! Or saying oh god, or god, in moments, situations or events are also common. These may seem like referral, but has nothing...

OPINION: THE PROBLEM WITH NIGERIA

We are a country of over two hundred million people of different tribes and religions but one basic problem facing us is we are not united. Although we live within one country we are different people and more attached...

OPINION: OWOBORIOMO CREATED ABJECT POVERTY FROM OIL INCOME WINDFALL

If you want to know the future of a country, look at their children today, their toys, fables and values. Oasis of a few dumb billionaires without "water" in the middle of a desert does not produce fertile land...