Opinion

OPINION: P&ID VS. NIGERIA: A REVIEW

The report that a commercial court in the UK has ruled that Nigeria must pay a UK firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P & ID) a sum of $9.6 billion or have its assets in the UK to...

OPINION: KWEREMADU’S ASSAULT AND THE DYNAMICS OF REVOLUTION

The assault of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in Germany is unsurprising, but shocking. Unsurprising because it’s certain Nigerians would revolt against their leaders misrule someday. It is shocking because many never envisaged such could happen now,...

OPINION: YAKUBU GOWON’S SERMON

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Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon, 84, is Nigeria's former Head of State. He served in the Nigerian Army between 1954 and 1975. Nine out of those years were dedicated to Nigeria as her ruler. Within that period, he also led war...

OPINION: TRANSFORMING NIGERIA’S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY ON BUHARI’S WATCH

The managerial run of the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will begin this week with the announcement of portfolios and swearing in of ministers-designate. As important as petroleum, together with its derivatives, is to the Nigerian economy, being...

OPINION: IDPs CONNOTE LEADERSHIP FAILURE

"The only solution that works is to change the hole, because a square peg will always be a square peg" – Richard Templar; "The Rules of People". Nigeria is one place that is both fascinating and intriguing. Nigeria my Country is fascinating because...

OPINION: ATTACK ON EKWEREMADU AS PARODY OF OUR REALITY

I call it the Nuremberg madness. I solemnly consider it as grotesquely outlandish. It defies all manner of-ratiocination and rationalizations. I had read a number of opinions that tended to either draw some bizarre corollary upon which a general warning...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN

Since the return of democracy in 1999 and even prior to that time, Nigeria has been governed by the same group of individuals. Those that truncated Nigeria’s democracy and have ruled during the military regimes have also returned with...

OPINION: BEATING OF EKWEREMADU AND THE STONES AWAITING OTHERS 

There is pain. There is anger. And there is collective rage in the land. Nigerians are empty of options and are seeking avenues for a purge; for catharsis. The season of retribution may be upon us sooner than we...

OPINION: INSIDE UNIBEN SCHOOL OF CORRUPTION

Even though the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria, is very well-sought after by students seeking leadership positions in Nigeria, our investigations reveal that sections of the leadership of this institution is allegedly besmeared in several underhand financial practices...

OPINION: POVERTY ARMED ROBBERS IMMORALITY FUELED BY NOUVEAU RICHE

When politicians failed you, professors failed you, bosses failed you, banks failed you, relatives failed you, pastors and imams failed you: who is going to deliver you from the devil? It boils down to You and Your Chi. That...