Opinion

OPINION: STATE OF THE NATION: BETWEEN GENERAL BUHARI AND BMO, HIS ATTACK DOGS

How else do you describe the bunch of hitherto distressed men and women under the auspices of Buhari Media Office if not to say they are simply struggling for relevance in this narrow- minded, criminally nepotic and blood-letting administration? It...

OPINION: NIGERIA FAILED KAGARA AND JANGEBE SCHOOL CHILDREN?

I see the vapid and tepid response of the Buhari administration to the slew of juvenile abductions as the prodrome of elite bias. Yes, the proportion of response a challenge receives is metered by the social estate of those...

OPINION: SHELL VS AITEO ET’AL AND OTHER SERIOUS MATTERS

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No doubt, the recent injunction of a Federal High Court, Lagos, barring Royal Dutch Shell’s Nigerian subsidiary from withdrawing money at 20 local banks until it ring-fences potential damages in a lawsuit brought against the oil major by Aiteo...

OPINION: NIGERIA: AN UNLUCKY LUCKY NATION?

Can Nigeria truly work? Why is almost everyone now a thief? Why does the one who complains or does it differently and well is seen as the problem? Why can’t we truly make people pay for their crimes? Why? Every...

OPINION: THE POLITICS OF AMNESTY: LIKE NIGER DELTA MILITANTS, LIKE BANDITS

Did the activities of militants in the Niger Delta qualify as crime? Hell Yes! Militancy and kidnapping were a profitable pursuit in that oil-rich region in the early 2000s. Kidnapping as an organised venture entered our national lexicon at...

OPINION: NGOZI GOES TO WTO

The biggest piece of happy-ending news in Nigeria in the month of February 2021 is the endorsement of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the next Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) by the United States. The South Korean...

OPINION: DIRTY RELIGION AND THE DILEMMA OF MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19

Controversies surround reasons why religion thrives in Nigeria. It is said to be an opium. For some, regular religious attendance is a prerequisite for a good life in heaven after the misery here, and continued merriment for them that...

OPINION: WITH ADESINA, OKONJO-IWEALA AND OTHERS, NIGERIA ATTAINS HUMAN RESOURCE POWERHOUSE STATUA UNDER PRESIDENT BUHARI

Professor Ibrahim Gambari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, international relations guru and bureaucrat, does not think we should wait for historians to do the assessment of the Buhari administration in the international arena given limitations of the focus...

OPINION: PASTORALISTS AND FARMERS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: TIME FOR FULANI CAPITALISM, NOT HERDSMEN TERRORISM

Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka’s country home in the forest area of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, has reportedly been invaded allegedly by herdsmen. Although the police have denied the invasion of Soyinka’s sanctuary, he has confirmed that the peace of...

OPINION: EX-SERVICE CHIEFS AS AMBASSADORS: CAN THE SENATE STAND UP TO BE COUNTED?

BEVERLY HILLS, February 19, (THEWILL) - General Muhammadu Buhari's recent surprise nomination of his immediate past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors has continued to generate serious reactions some of which are actually interesting while most are either naive or outrightly...