Opinion

OPINION: WHAT ARE NIGERIAN LEADERS

Toni Morrison, one of America’s finest writers and a Nobel Prize winner, just passed on, in the United States of America.  One of her most illuminating quotes is: “If you can only be tall because someone else is on...

OPINION: COMPARISONS BETWEEN TWO ‘REVOLUTIONS’: SOWORE’S COALITION AND THE JANUARY 15 1966 COUP

The ongoing national drama over the 'revolution' of Omoyele Sowore has engulfed Nigeria and created a theatre where tragedy and farce may end up being staged, if Nigerians are not careful. These are times that try men's souls in...

OPINION: LEADERSHIP, THE NATION AND ITS’ FUTURE

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Vanity asks the question- is it popular? Conscience asks the question-Is it right? -Martin Luther King Jnr. Very recently, I stumbled on a document where Havard Political Professor, Samuel Huntington, in an address at Taipei, on August 1995, contrasted Singapore...

OPINION: EMIR OF GWANDU: BLAME NOT HOMOSEXUALS

The Emir of Gwandu, and the Chairman Kebbi Council of Chiefs, Muhammadu Bashar has blamed homosexuals for the problem of insecurity in Nigeria. In his Sallah message, the Emir said: "The society today is bedeviled by cases of rape,...

OPINION: ABIANS’ OPPRESSIONS: A REAWAKENING OF THOUGHT

It's disheartening to outline the burgeoning rate of oppressiveness and cruelty by the security operatives who claim to be spick and span, especially the military, towards the innocent citizenry in Abia, Aba to be precise. Aba, which is seen by...

OPINION: ECHOES OF ‘POLITICAL’ RACISM IN USA

There is now loud echoes of rants of racism made against theWorld's most eccentric politicians- Mr Donald Trump. Donald Trump is the 45th president of the United States of America of the Republican political breed. Since he moynted the Presidential rostrum...

OPINION: HARNESSING THE HAPPENSTANCE OF TWO AGBAS AS MINISTERS-DESIGNATE

Skimming and scanning through the list of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ministers-designate, one would see therein the inclusion of two Agbas, to wit: Goddy Jedy-Agba and Clem IK Agba. The enclosure of these Nigerians who bear the same surname is...

OPINION: A DECADE OF UPRISING: WHAT DOES BOKO HARAM WANT?

Introduction Ten years since the launch of violent attacks against innocent citizens, it is pertinent to find out exactly what Boko Haram want. It is not enough to continue to wage a war against Boko Haram who have killed over...

OPINION: ‘ART AND DEFACEMENT: BASQUIAT AT THE GUGGENHEIM’

Consider the following facts as you wend your way to the Guggenheim Museum and its uppermost gallery, where you will presently find The Death of Michael Stewart (1983), Basquiat’s gut-punching tribute to a slain artist, and the centerpiece for...

OPINION: SECURITY FORCES, THE LAW AND INDISCRETIONS

"If we feel our own happiness is threatened by a move towards the greater good, it's hard to vote for the greater good", (The Rules of People" by Richard Templar). The above citation from the international best-selling series as aforementioned...