Opinion

OPINION: WE NEED NEW ALLIANCES – NORTH WITH SOUTH; EAST WITH WEST

We need new alliances – political, social, and humanitarian concordat. But we must start from a foreground of truth to achieve this holy grail. Our history as dispensed in public discourses and by government hagiographers is largely revised and...

OPINION: YAHAYA BELLO’S PRO-WOMEN, REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS

Governor Yahaya Bello’s gender-friendly policy is unprecedented in the political history of Nigeria. It is a policy that other state governors should copy. By it, Bello has set a standard for a race on how best to run an...

OPINION: ANAMBRA 2021: WHY THE ELECTORATE MUST SET AGENDA THIS TIME

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On 6th November, 2021, Anambra State electorate would go to the polls to elect a new governor to run the affairs of the state for another four years. Presently, many have indicated interest, aspiring to take over from the incumbent...

OPINION: HOW LACK OF CLEAN WATER IS DRIVING UP DISEASES IN LEKKI

Help! Lekki residents are exposed to water-related diseases engendered by sub-standard and unregulated sources of water supply. Increasing cases of dysentery and diarrhoea-induced pathogenic bacteria infections have sparked concerns on public health in the area. Water is an essential element...

OPINION: CONTENDING FORCES WITHIN GOVERNMENT

No government is short of progressive and regressive forces within its folds. It doesn't matter if it is in Nigeria or America. The fact is that, no matter how progressive a government claims to be, there are always regressive forces...

OPINION: WILL EDO STATE EDUCATION SURVIVE GODWIN OBASEKI?

In all relevant discussions regarding the development or underdevelopment of education in Edo state, three names and three epochs will get some honourable or dishonourable mention. The first epoch will be that of the late Professor Ambrose Folorunsho Alli, first...

OPINION: IBORI’S LOOTS: DELTANS SHOULD PURGE THEMSELVES OF PATENT LIES, HYPOCRISY

Introduction: The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the British Government and the Federal Executive Council alongside the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami SAN, on the repatriation of the looted fund of the sum of £4.2 million...

OPINION: 2023: FAYEMI AND DEVELOPMENT-MINDED PRESIDENCY

It is in the public domain that Members of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, recently, endorsed the 2023 presidential ambition of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, despite that he has not openly declared his intention for the top seat. Speaker...

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....