Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE: LEVERAGING THE BRAND TO GREATER LOFTY HEIGHTS WITH HOPE, UNITY AND PROGRESS

Nigeria’s Diamond Jubilee has, auspiciously, coincided and by Divine arrangement with the year that the first two digits match the second two digits; a special and unique year – 2020. The next year that will follow this magical pattern...

OPINION: ME CELEBRATE NIGERIA AT 60? SORRY, NO!!!

Many Nigerians at home and abroad, including Elder Statesmen and women, Rights Activists, NGOs, Journalists and social media Czars, have severally called upon me in the last one week to comment on my personal feelings about "Nigeria at 60". I...

OPINION: CHRISTIANAITY, CRUSADES, INQUISITION & LOVE

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There are possible theories – in trying – to understand why the crusades happened in Christianity. One possibility is that not many people could read the Scriptures at those times – so lots of acts depended on oral knowledge. It was...

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

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...