Opinion

OPINION: THE LAST DANCE: TRUMP, PUTIN, NETANYAHU AND KIM (A SATIRE)

I am getting sick and tired of the raging violent conflicts overseas and the political mess here at home which is consuming us day in and day out. I thought that for a change a little levity is in order. During...

OPINION: MUGABE AND THE LESSONS LEFT BEHIND

As background to this piece, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1963. He founded ZANU, a resistance movement against British colonial rule. Mugabe became prime minister of the new...

RACISM AND XENOPHOBIA: ECHOES FROM SOUTH AFRICA IN A TROUBLED CONTINENT

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Those who are still hoping that the African continent might someday reinvent itself for the better are at best hallucinating, at worst living in the world that's out of it. Africa has remained a basket case and no amount of outward...

OPINION: SORRY, I DON’T THINK ATIKU IS COMING

I have pondered on Atiku Abubakar's case against President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential election petition tribunal. I have also cerebrated on the counter arguments of the president. By my ratiocination, the arguments of both parties are nourished with so...

OPINION: “WEAPONIZING” BUDGET AND NATIONAL PLANNING

In conceptualizing sustainable budgeting and national development planning templates, hope is certainly not a plan. It's then little wonder that, historically, budgeting and national development planning remain twin 'weapon-grade' tools progressive nations deploy to confront and destroy poverty, stunted...

OPINION: XENOPHOBIC VIOLENCE AND LAW BASED RESPONSE

For the umpteenth time throughout last week, thousands of black Africans and other strangers from Asia living in South African townships doing businesses came under highly coordinated premeditated violent attacks from black South Africans who killed, maimed and looted...

OPINION: APPRAISING THE WESTERN NIGERIA SECURITY NETWORK

As Nigerians eagerly await the commencement of the Western Nigerian Security Network (WSNW), it is only appropriate to attempt an overview of its existence. The WSNW is a response to the aggravated security situation in the region. The most perturbing...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI, SYLVA AND THE PETROLEUM MINISTRY

In the construction of any business strategy, Kenichi Ohmae, a world-acclaimed management consultant and author of; The Mind of a strategist, among other things, noted that three main players must be taken into account; the corporation itself, the customers...

OPINION: KOGI GUBER, APC AND BELLO’S CANDIDATURE

The Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary held on August 29, 2019 was an easy win for the incumbent governor, His Excellency, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. Adjudged by observers to be transparent, free and fair, the primary election conducted...

OPINION: WE MUST FIX EDUCATION TO FIX NIGERIA

Few days back, I had a brief stopover at the premises of the Imo state university in Owerri, and the sights and sounds that yours faithfully perceived and heard were frightening and disappointing at the same time. The first shocking...