Opinion

OPINION: THE FISSURE IN OBASEKI’S CAMPAIGN

There were evident gaps in Godwin Obaseki’s governorship campaign in 2016. A quick, non-exhaustive checklist: his vacuous personality, lack of appeal and validation, unpopularity, questionable pedigree and a handful of quirky negatives that unflatteringly defined a drab and uninspiring...

OPINION: ENUGU STATE GOVERNMENT AND THE QUEST FOR GROWTH

…with a special focus on rural development and the execution of feasible policies Enugu State got recently recognized in the National news as one of the top six states of the Nigerian Federation surviving on its internally generated revenue. This...

OPINION: THE IRONY OF CHANGE NIGERIANS VOTED FOR

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"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." - George Orwell. Nigerians were destroyed, the understanding of their history denied and completely obliterated by the deft political manipulations of the...

OPINION: PETROL PRICE JACK UP: BUHARI’S DOWNSTREAM OF CORRUPTION AND THE REST OF US

Why is this government doing things as if its main agenda is to deliberately inflict pain and hardship on Nigerians? How can a government that rode on the back of the poor masses of this country to power be...

OPINION: MODERN SCRAMBLE AND ‘DESERTION’ OF AFRICA

I do not believe for once that Africa is a dark continent as we were wrongly schooled by the Western Authors of African history written from the perspective of racism and White supremacy. I believe that Africa is home to...

OPINION: PASTOR IBIYEOMIE NOT DIFFERENT FROM THOSE SEEKING DEATH OF KANO SINGER FOR BLASPHEMY

We have to face up to the truth; the truth about Christian fundamentalism. The church today has been sculpted in the image of extremists and demagogues – men who arrogate to themselves the power of life and death. They...

OPINION: EDO, ONDO, THE FROZEN DADDY AND PETROL TALES

"So this is how we will just adjust to the new fuel price at the petrol stations, and the government will get away with the imposition of greater hardship on the people?" "No. Government is very clear. The fuel subsidy...

OPINION: EFCC FOI DENIALS: A REMEDY

Matters related to Freedom of Information denials by the EFCC reared a head recently at a seminar organized by an NGO in Benin City. Since signing up or onto the Open Government Partnership, OGP, the Edo state government has...

OPINION: EVIL IS ABOUT TO TAKE OVER NIGERIA

· Why Dr Okonjo Iweala’s mother was kidnapped · 100 billion mismanagement: Senator Smart Adeyemi laments on corruption · Nigerian constitution is so fraudulently written, revisit it and restructure the country · Cabals hold Nigeria at the jugular like Pablo Escobar held...

OPINION: JOS STORIES; KWARARAFA CINEMA AND TERMINUS MARKET

Thus our fable goes to sea, and he who will smell its perfume first, will go to heaven." From September 7 to 13, 2001, Jos, the capital of Plateau State in central Nigeria, was the scene of mass killing and...