Opinion

OPINION: RESUSCITATING PALM PLANTATIONS IN ENUGU 

With technological advancements in the solar sector, and decisions of some western countries to quit buying petroleum products in no distant time, it has become imperative that the doomsday is imminent for petroleum products. Against this background, the clamour...

OPINION: CRUDE OIL THEFT: NIGERIA STILL DANCING AROUND THE MENACE

Godwin Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State, who is also the Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee of the National Economic Council on Crude Oil Theft, Prevention and Control, revisited the menace of crude oil theft in the country by...

OPINION: ARE YOU ASHAMED, BUT PROUD OF NIGERIA?

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OPINION: CAPTAIN HOSA: LIFTING HUMANITY, DECORATED WITH HONOUR

According to the 1921 Nobel laureate for Literature, Frenchman Anatole France, “To accomplish great things, we must dream, as well as act.”  Thousands of kilometres away from Europe, another bold visionary, entrepreneur and film producer - Walter Elias Disney -...

OPINION: BALA USMAN: REMEMBERING A GREAT MIND, 14 YEARS AFTER

It is 14 years since the legendary historian, astute academic, critic and social justice crusader, Dr. Bala Yusuf Usman departed this sinful word. Precisely on September 24, 2005. I never met him; but heard glowing stories about him. I...

OPINION: ALERT: ‘INSULT’ BUHARI AND GET CHARGED WITH TREASON

President Buhari shares paternity with Paul Biya of Cameroon in leadership style. Both men are joined by the umbilicus of repression and abrasion. In 2010, Bertrand Teyou, an author, was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for insulting the wife of...

OPINION: JUSTIN TRUDEAU CAN BE FORGIVEN!

In both politics and sports, racism has remained a major stumbling block to the fullest realization of the underlying objectives for establishing both sectors in human community. Politics essentially if qualitatively played has the potential of unleashing the highest standards...

OPINION: ISSUES IN BUHARI’S ECONOMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent replacement of the Economic Management Team (EMT) headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with an Economic Advisory Council (EAC) headed by Prof. Doyin Salami has led to speculations on the import of this move, including...

OPINION: CAN MR. PRESIDENT STAY HOME?

President Muhammadu Buhari was recently quoted in a section of the media as telling the restive Nigerian Youths that anyone who is malcontent about the state of affairs at home can as well travel to wherever the person desires...

OPINION: THE WEIGHT OF OSHIOMHOLE’S GROUSE ABOUT OBASEKI

The interviews granted by a former governor of Edo State and National Chair of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to select Television stations, on Friday, September 6, 2019, were historic because they enabled him respond to...