Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA @60: NIGERIA POLITICAL PARTIES AND POLITICAL NIGERIA’S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, THE WAY FORWARD

Political parties are central suppliers of political information to the people, that is, educating and enlightening the public on the activities of government. They are seen as social agencies conglomerating different shades of people, religion, views and cultures into...

OPINION: ERGP 2017-2020: FROM RECESSION TO RECESSION

Since gaining independence in 1960, Nigeria has initiated series of development plans aimed at directing the utilisation of the country resources into different development programmes and activities in accordance with National priorities, one of these is the Economic Recovery...

OPINION: WITH 600 ROAD PROJECTS, PRESIDENT BUHARI SETS UNBEATEN RECORD

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As we mark the 60th Anniversary Day, the record-setting, mega roadways infrastructure development projects by the Buhari administration numbering up to 600 that are undergoing major upgradation or rehabilitation call for public attention and appreciation. The size and magnitude of...

OPINION: JIBIYA/MARADI 55KM RAIL LINE: IN WHOSE INTEREST?

The bitter truth remains that the planned construction of Jibiya/Maradi 55km standard rail line by the Nigerian government does not serve the overall and overriding interest of her citizenry. Nigeria as a nation is already in a dire fix....

OPINION: EDO ELECTION TRIBUNAL AND LESSON FROM PROFESSOR IDIA IZE-IYAMU

If there is anything that presents as false the claim by politicians particularly in Nigeria that their motives are unsoiled by private ambitions, that all they wish is to serve the public and to pursue the 'public good, it...

OPINION: NIGERIA@60 AMIDST DESOLATION

"The purpose of government is to enable the people of a Nation to live safely and happily, government exists for the interest of the governed and not for the governors" (Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826). No one will discount the...

OPINION: 60 YEARS AFTER; HOW OUR LEADERS STEAL OUR MEAT

Let me start this conversation in this manner, don't ask me what took me where I am going, or who was responsible for my small research on how to steal meat from the pot. 1. Enter the kitchen, look left...

OPINION: FOREIGN LOAN BORROWERS USED AS INDEBTED FARM WORKERS, SERFS

Loan owners usually encourage and push borrowers into more debts at comparatively low teaser interest rate. The richest countries are also the world's biggest debtors. After all, they tell us Africa's loans compared to GDP are still low until...

OPINION: NIGERIA AT 60: THE COLONIALISTS NEVER LEFT – THEY ARE NIGERIAN POLITICIANS

The British colonialists chucked the power console to the aborigines of Nigeria in 1960. Let me rephrase that. The British prowlers tossed power into the palm of native champions and ‘’non-functionally’’ exited the dais before the close of 1960....

OPINION: SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF A NATION IN NEED OF RESTRUCTURING

One of the most exciting teachings received on Wednesday 23rd November, 2016 during an Inaugural Lecture delivered by James Tar Tsaaior, Professor of Media and Cultural Communication, at School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos, centred on signs...