Opinion

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

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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....

OPINION: UZODIMMA’S CLUELESS ONE YEAR IN OFFICE

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...