Opinion

OPINION: INSECURITY OF LIVES & PROPERTIES IN NIGERIA MAY BE WORSE THAN THE DAMAGE DONE BY COVID-19 PANDEMIC: WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT

President Mohammadu Buhari’s Democracy Day speech which was presented in one hundred and one (101) paragraphs in which he highlighted six (6) particular sectors that he believes his administration has excelled-Economy, Security, Agriculture, Electricity Power, Transportation, and Peace in...

OPINION: PANTAMI, DANBATTA AND CONSOLIDATING TELECOM SECTOR GROWTH 

A cornucopia of glad tidings has recently thronged the doors of Nigeria's telecoms industry. It all started with various state governments across the country signing executive orders to either waive or harmonize the Right of Way fees, the perennial...

OPINION: OKONJO-IWEALA, WTO AND AFRICA’S CHANCES

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The announcement of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Nigeria's nominated candidate for the position of the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) which would now be vacant by September 1, 2020, and not 2021, following the incumbent's decision...

OPINION: OBASEKI/OSHIOMHOLE NAKED BRAWL: WHEN WILL OUR PRIMITIVE POLITICS EVOLVE?

One of the many contraptions that have defied contrivance and evolution in Nigeria is our politics. We still practise the basest, vilest and crudest kind of politics. In fact, there is a more transparent and disciplined political system in...

OPINION: THE GEORGE FLOYDS OF NIGERIA

The water between us remembers, so we wear our history on our skin, long for a sea-bath and hope the salt will cure what ails us –Deborah Jack (St. Martin) 2016 Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) and the National Council...

OPINION: EDO STATE: A STATE IN DISTRESS, LET US MANAGE THE STRESS WITH A FEMALE DEPUTY GOVERNOR

The entire State of the Edo people for far too long have been under mounting stress intensively for the last  twelve months, and the  stress of ugly State politics has been depressingly affecting the Edo State citizens who are...

OPINION: 365 DAYS: GBAJABIAMILA’S LEGACY OF NO LEGACIES

June 11, 2020 marks exactly one year Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila took over the leadership of the House of Representatives as the 9th Speaker. While the states have equal representation in the Senate, the House of Representatives, with more representations, embodies...

OPINION: FIGHTING UNCONVENTIONAL ENEMIES CONVENTIONALLY IS NOT A PIECE OF CAKE

"National security is a serious matter and I do not think it is proper to discuss such details in a public forum."—Indian PM Narendra Modi Asymmetric warfare against terrorism is one of the most difficult, challenging and complex wars of...

OPINION: THE MEANING AND PURPOSE OF BUHARI’S AGRICULTURAL DRIVE

-774,000 jobs for youth in agric; - 1.6m farmers funding; - 2 million farmers get free seeds; -75,000 agric extension officers; -Nigeria Africa's top rice producer; - NALDA reintroduced One aspect of our national life in which all hues of Nigerians cannot deny or ignore...

OPINION: FIVE YEARS OF BUHARI AND BABA-AHMED’S NOT-SO-HONEST ASSESSMENT

Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a former Chief of Staff to then Senate President, Bukola Saraki laboured so hard to frame the five years of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration in his Daily Trust Column of June 3, 2020. An unsuspecting...