Opinion

OPINION: THE SOUTHERN KADUNA QUESTION

The renewed interest in the crisis that continues to rock Southern Kaduna would be helpful if it produces a genuine effort at resolving the problem and ensuring lasting peace in that part of the country that remains troubled, divided...

OPINION: SIR EMEKA OFFOR; A WORTHY SOLDIER IN THE FIGHT AGAINST POLIO

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. - John D. Rockefeller Jr. Today, the African region is being declared free of wild poliovirus after Nigeria, the only polio endemic nation in the region has...

OPINION: NIGERIAN ARMY UNIVERSITY BIU: BUHARI’S REWARD TO AN UNCOMMON COMMUNITY

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The establishment of the Nigerian Army University in Biu Local Government Area of Borno State by the federal government somewhat came as a surprise to many of us. We wondered why there was a need for a Nigerian Army...

OPINION: THE HYPOCRISY OF IGBO POLITICAL LEADERS

The so-called Igbo struggle is an enterprise. Individuals from the south-east, who find themselves in a position of political influence, hawk the ''Igbo agitation'' as merchandise in self-seeking ventures. These politicians pursue personal gains robed in the collective agenda....

OPINION: DE-ACCULTURATION OF AFRICA INTO THE 21ST CENTURY

Acculturation of European ways of life into African communities was intentionally planned to suppress our cultures and create longing demands for Foreign culture and tastes. Until Africans rediscover and refine their own culture, we will always fall for others'...

OPINION: CROCODILE TEARS AND THE PRODIGAL LEADERS OF NORTHERN NIGERIA

So let me start this way, this essay was originally written some seven years ago, under the original title "Northern Nigeria And Her Mythical Realities". I have looked at it again and come up with a remake of it. Not...

OPINION: MAMMAN DAURA: SAHARAREPORTERS, THE UNDISPUTED FAKE & HATE NEWS PURVEYOR?

When on the 19th August 2020, Omoyele Sowore, AAC Presidential candidate in the 2019 election, via his platform, saharareporters.com came out with a sensational report, captioned: "President Buhari's Powerful Nephew Mamman Daura Flown To UK For Urgent Medical Treatment";...

OPINION: EDO GOVERNORSHIP: FLYING THE TRITE “APC’LL RIG” KITE

Since Mr Charles Idahosa's interview published on page 10 of New Telegraph of July 15, 2020, headlined: "Edo people'll resist rigging of guber poll", Governor Godwin Obaseki, for whom he works, his administration officials and leaders of the Peoples...

OPINION: BIDEN/TRUMP: WHO FAVOURS AFRICA?

Before the end of the year, it will become clearer who between the Republican Party and Democratic Party of the United States of America will occupy the White House for another four years. For a fact whoever occupies the White...

OPINION: ATTAH OBONI II: POWER, PEACE AND PROGRESS, A BOW TOO EARLY

It is no longer news that the mobile shrine, the chief priest of Igala Kingdom, the Attah of Igala, Michael Idakwo Ameh Oboni II has left the mortal flesh to live forever in one celestial component with his ancestors....