Opinion

OPINION: HAS CORRUPTION BURIED OBONO-OBLA? 

Before he was given the heave-ho, Okoi Obono-Obla, ex-chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the recovery of Public Property (SPIP), bagged notoriety as a ''serial power abuser'' and a ''carefree violator'' of due process. Obono-Obla's success is, perhaps,...

OPINION: ENUGU: GOVERNOR UGWUANYI AND AWGU CAVES

Below is the published order given by His Excellency Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State. "Gov. Ugwuanyi also visited the Ihe-Agbogugu-Ogbaku-Amurri and Isu-Awaa-Agbudu forests in the same local government area, ordering the immediate demolition of Agbogugu and Isu-Awaa-Agbudu caves to...

OPINION: STATE OF THE NATION: DANGERS OF FALSE EXPECTATIONS AS NIGERIA GROAN UNDER DEBT BURDEN

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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant"- Max de Pree. But under the current dispensation in the country, the first responsibility of our...

OPINION: RECONSTRUCTING SENATOR ISHAKU ABBO

I do not claim to have a catholic knowledge of the persona of Ishaku Abbo, the senator representing Adamawa North in the ninth Senate, as to make a magisterial assertion about the totality of his capacities as well as...

OPINION: EVEN IF GOVERNOR YAHAYA BELLO PERSONALLY ACQUIRED AJAOKUTA STEEL COMPANY

The unrepentant critic of Alhaji Yahaya Bello, Barrister Natasha Akpoti who lost out in the last senatorial election in Kogi central in her usual campaign of calumny has come out with another weighty allegation. In the latest version of her...

OPINION: WHEN SOLDIERS DO POLICE WORK: DISASTER

If anyone is looking for a perfect illustration and confirmation of the "coming anarchy" in Nigeria, that person needs not look farther than the on-going conflict and crisis of mutual distrust between the Nigeria Police and the Nigerian Army....

OPINION: NOT ACTING ON CLIMATE CRISIS IS AT OUR PERIL

Climate change is real and is visible for all to see. The scientific evidence is overwhelming, and denying that climate change is already upon us, especially as the president and his party does, flies in the face of the...

OPINION: THE RICH AND POOR HONEST NIGERIANS

We live in an unfortunate epoch whereby the ethical frameworks that define us as a people of African heritage is fast eroding and being systematically replaced by the age of consumerism and cash consciousness. They say we are in...

OPINION: SOWORE:  KILLING AN ANT WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER

Omoyele Sowore, former Presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC) and publisher of the online citizen newspaper, Sahara Reporters, has been dominating the news since the Department of State Services picked him up in a Lagos hotel on...

OPINION: WELCOME EFCC POWER PROBE

Nigeria is blessed with abundant human and material resources. Yet she has less than average ratings on the Mo Ibrahim Development Index 2018.  Compared to Ghana and Mali, with overall governance rankings of 28 & 6 out of 54...