Opinion

OPINION: INSECURITY, ECONOMIC REGRESSION AND SOCIAL ANOMIE: A CALL FOR DECISIVE ACTION

While in the past, the point at issue was the problem of hunger and general poverty being experienced by the Nigerian people, in recent times the provocation has been escalated to the inability of the Nigerian state to provide...

OPINION: MR. BUHARI – TRUST AND TRUTH BETRAYED?

You cannot build on lies... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness....

OPINION: UZODIMMA’S CLUELESS ONE YEAR IN OFFICE

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Hope Uzodimma, Governor of Imo State, has exhibited a strange approach to governance. He runs Imo the way he changes his eye glasses. He interchanges two glasses at a time- a dark and a white one- which he both...

OPINION: THE TASK FOR BAWA IN EFCC

The conflicting reactions that recently trailed the appointment by President Muhammadu Buhari, of Abdulrasheed Bawa, a Nigerian detective and certified anti-money laundering specialist, as the new Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) reveals one thing. It shows...

OPINION: ANTI-GRAFT: AGF MALAMI BREAKING HIS OWN LAW ON REPATRIATED DELTA UK FUND

When Catriona Laing, the British High Commissioner to Nigeria, On Tuesday March 9 2021, made the announcement at the Ministry of Justice's Conference Hall in Abuja, that the UK Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the...

OPINION: BUHARI’S SHOOT AT SIGHT DIRECTIVE: THE BEST AND WORST CASE SCENARIOS

Following the backlash of the directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to Nigerian security forces that it should shoot-at-sight anyone carrying AK47 assault rifles in the forests-a weapon which herders now sling over their shoulders with reckless abandon, (instead of...

OPINION: 2021 ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION: SOLUDO LEADING THE PACK

As the race towards getting a successor for the incumbent governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, hots up, one person stands out among aspirants jostling to replace him. He is former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr...

OPINION: OIL HOST COMMUNITIES’ FUND IN PIB: SOUTH SOUTH AND SERIOUS PENDING ISSUES

The Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) 2020 currently at the floor of the National Assembly is proposing that a trust fund, called the 'Host Community Development Trust Fund', be set up, where the oil and gas companies also referred to...

OPINION: WHAT HAS OBASEKI BEEN DOING WITH $2MILLION MONTHLY SECURITY VOTE IN EDO STATE?

Members of the community where I live did not start a vigilante group because the Nigerian minister of Defence asked us to protect ourselves. We decided to over the spate of robberies we were experiencing in our community in...

OPINION: IGBO, HAUSA, YORUBA MUST SURRENDER ETHNIC IDENTITIES TO NIGERIA

Genocides or mass killings do not just happen. They are usually harbingered by conspiracy theories of ethnic and religious complexions, sentiments, skewed perceptions and assumptions. Are all these ingredients of doom present in today's Nigeria? Yes, very much so....