Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE SOUTH-EAST IS TERRORISM

At a time when evil spars against good, we must choose a side. We either opt to be a part of darkness or take a place in the phalanx of virtuous knights. Staying taciturn while evil courses through the...

OPINION: ENDLESS ROAD: RETURN OF THE AFRICAN CHILD

In my tiny little mind, I thought the sun used to be hotter those days. The road would stretch for miles, and you could see it stretching to no end. You could see the sun rays as they reflected...

OPINION: THESE LEADERS DON’T REALLY CARE ABOUT US

My name is Prince Charles Dickson, I am an untribalized Nigerian, an unrepentant patriot, I believe in the inherent good of a Nigerian. I am also of the tribe that is fast evaporating, not accepted, labeled and branded by...

OPINION: “ IF YOU PAY A KIDNAPPERS RANSOM YOU’LL GO TO JAIL!”

NIgeria is a funny and strange country to live in and the lawmakers are even stranger making you think whether they’ve lost touch with reality all together: recently the Senate is trying to push a Bill, the Terrorism Prevention(Amendment)...

OPINION: RIGHT OF REPLY RE: YAHAYA BELLO: PROTOTYPE OF VISIONLESS EXUBERANCE

A so-called special report written by one Sam Diala, which filled with fiction and orchestrated misinformation, with the intent to malign, has come to our attention. The report exposes the writer as someone who has a preconceived animosity towards the...

OPINION: MALAMI’S NONSENSICAL COMPARISON

During an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, left me bewildered and wondering if he still has his thinking faculty intact. Malami, while speaking against the ban on open grazing...