Opinion

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

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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...

FOUNDING AN IGBO STATE

When considering the founding of a new modern Igbo state we have to take into consideration the fact that every existing state or country today has their own unique and peculiar circumstances and conditions that produced them. So, in...

OPINION: IPOB/ODUDUWA AGITATORS’ ALLIANCE: IGBO, YORUBA WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER

The Igbo and the Yoruba share the affinity of interest. Their political goals are analogous. They both seek jurisdiction over their space and resources, and desire to be master-planners of their own political future. The two groups long not...

OPINION: EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA: FELICITATION AND VIEWS ON EDO STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION

I join President Muhammadu Buhari and all lovers of democracy to congratulate Governor Godwin Obaseki on his re-election as the governor of Edo State. I also congratulate the good people of Edo State on the peaceful and successful conduct...

OPINION: BANAL LESSONS FROM EDO 2020

The curtain has now closed on the democratic soap opera that was the 2020 governorship election in Edo State. This was premium box office stuff. From the intrigues of dizzying defections to the fascinations of the makings and unmakings...

OPINION: STOPPING NIGERIA’S KILLER POLICE

The last three months has seen a global movement built up a momentum against the indiscriminate extralegal killings of black Americans by the police. These series of worldwide advocacy campaigns were engineered by a notable campaign platform aptly called "Black...

OPINION: EDO NO BE LAGOS: CRUCIFYING GODFATHERISM AND THE GODFATHERS

I have become incurably addicted to relish failure of godfathers in the political arena for a reason: the concept refuses settlement in my thinking faculty. I don’t believe in the supremacy of power brokers. I believe the people constitute...

OPINION: “FATAL ARROGANCE”: WHY IS THE IMN AFRAID OF ITS SHADOWS?

In the last few weeks, Nigerians have been inundated with cries of condemnation from the members of the proscribed Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN), about the behind-the-scenes photos and a 12-minute-clip from the set of Nollywood movie titled, 'Fatal...