Opinion

OPINION: MELE KYARI AND NNPC: ONE YEAR AFTER

A year ago, Mele Kolo Kyari was named as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He succeeded Maikanti Baru, now of blessed memory. On July 8, 2019, the then incoming GMD made the...

OPINION: MY FULANI FRIENDS…FROM WHICH STATE?

Everything has beauty not everyone sees it—Confucius So over the week, I had the pleasure of some wonderful Fulani guests, two males and two females, they were all 'full' Fulanis, but one was black...Black Fulani are not an everyday sight....

OPINION: EFCC’S MAGU ‘ARRESTED’: WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE BUSH MEAT

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BEVERLY HILLS, July 06, (THEWILL) - ''It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,'' a source in the thick of things told me regarding the ''arrest'' of Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC chairman, by...

OPINION; OSHIOMHOLE AND THE MAGNITUDE OF HIS POLITICS

In a season of partisan frenzy, with many red-eyed politicians focused on various power-grab projects, discipline, party supremacy and rule-governed processes become threatened, as it was in the enclave of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) until recently when...

OPINION: LOST NKRUMAH & NIGERIA: THE SAFE HAVEN WE RELIED ON

What happened to Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and how did Nigeria lose its potential power as the place to be for all Africans at home and from diaspora? Seriously, both cease to exist when we need them most! It...

OPINION: WILL HERDSMEN PLUNGE NIGERIA INTO FOOD CRISIS?

One of the most worrisome developments in today's Nigeria is what appears like a firm resolve by the Muhammadu Buhari regime to continue circulating the very distressing impression that it does not know how to solve the endless aggression...

OPINION: WIKE VINDICATES BUHARISTS

Wike It came like a bolt out of the blue. Early this week, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, issued an advertisement, which went in a completely different direction compared to what he had always said of President Muhammadu Buhari. The...

OPINION: BUHARI, MAGU, MALAMI AND THE DIVIDED HOUSE

I have this Childhood's fantasy about the myth that a Cat has nine lives. It's a terrific secret that I have kept close to my chest up until these moments of reflection on the persistent accusations from top flight...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF JOB SCANDALS

I came in full cognisance with the normality of influence peddling for jobs when I was covering the national assembly. It is a run-off-the-mill practice, which has become permissive, for lawmakers to scribble a long list of names of...

OPINION: SMARTER RESPONSE AND RECOVERY MEASURES CAN HELP PRESERVE HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICA

“Social cohesion is built over years and is the result of policies that allow everybody in society to share in its sustainable prosperity,” Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa, Director - UNDP Africa. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise in Africa, countries are...