Opinion

OPINION: IMO: A THEATRE OF ABSURDITIES

Imo State has become a cinema, or rather a club house where the usual and unusual take place. The State has also become a big laboratory where experiments, political and judicial concoctions are mixed together and forced down on...

OPINION: APPROPRIATION OF AFRICA INTO DEBT BEFORE & AFTER THE SIXTIES

There are Africans that call for the return of their colonial masters that can be held responsible since African politicians are worse. So irresponsible, these politicians are selling out everything from government corporations, parastatals, natural resources to raiding and...

OPINION: AN ENCOUNTER WITH DR JUNAIDU MOHAMMED

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Even if you do not like his guts, what you cannot take away from Dr Junaidu Mohammed, a Second Republic law maker who shoots from the hips, is that he is very informed, articulate and passionate about his belief....

OPINION: THE PLACE OF PROPHECY IN A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT 

Prophecy as defined by Thomas Aquinas is; the certain foretelling of a future event by a person supernaturally informed of it and supernaturally moved to announce it. This, he added, comes in two ways; prophesy of foreknowledge and prophesy of denunciation’. While the...

OPINION: EXTRAPOLATING THE ECONOMIC VALUE OF CHURCHES TO NIGERIA, AFRICA

So a Church wants to build a new building, they ask for donations and starts the project. The project hires laborers, purchases some local materials, and the work goes on – for months, or years. The project creates demand, capital...

OPINION: CRIMINALIZING EXPORTATION OF UNREFINED PRECIOUS STONES

As part of efforts to diversify the nation's economy away from crude oil, the Federal Government, recently, said it has entered into a partnership agreement with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to buy off unrefined gold products from...

OPINION: DEMOCRACY AND THE TROUBLES WITH FG’S NEW DIRECTIVES ON MARRIAGE LICENSING

Aside from the traditional definition of democracy as government of the people, by the people and for the people, great scholars, commentators and political analysts, had at different times and places shared their thoughts about this form of government-...

OPINION: AMOTEKUN: THE POLITICS OF PROTECTION

Virtually everything in Nigeria no matter how well-meaning ends up getting ethnicized, or politicized, or religionized. So it is with Operation Amotekun: the Western Nigeria Security Network whose recent launch by the Governors of the South West, on January...

OPINION: KILLING SOLEIMANI UNDERMINES GLOBAL ORDER

Those who applaud the assassination of General Soleimani seem to simply equate him to a terrorist who certainly deserved to meet his fate. The question here is not whether he deserved to be killed, but can his killing be...

OPINION: ANAMBRA CENTRAL AND UMEH’S 17-MONTH REPRESENTATION

Chief Victor Umeh, a fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers, is one of the highly respected politicians from Anambra State that have contributed, in no small measure, to the sustenance and consolidation of democratic governance...