Opinion

OPINION: THIS ‘PADDI PADDI’ SENATE!

"Few people dey fat with biggy money and the rest dey hungry me Fela, I challengie Obasanjo na way he the all the time make him carry me go any court I go open book for am Now whyo government e we dey do eh bamihoo na...

OPINION: AN OPEN LETTER TO FIRST LADY AISHA BUHARI: THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT OF NIGERIA

Aisha Buhari is now in her second term as the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. During the current presidency of her husband, President Muhammadu Buhari, she continues to present her work and contributions in an independent,...

OPINION: THE OTEDOLA EXAMPLE

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“Otedola has made me, I can play football again,” Christian Chukwu, the 68 year-old former Captain of Enugu Rangers, former captain of the Green Eagles and former Chief Coach of the Green Eagles, reportedly joked when he paid a...

OPINION: BEFORE NIGERIAN SHIITE MOVEMENT IS LABELLED A TERRORIST GROUP

Monday’s Police/Shiites class in Abuja conjure up a mental image of theatre of war barely two weeks when the sect’s protest turned violent at the National Assembly complex in Abuja. The Shiites, agitation was not unexpected. Since December 2015 that...

OPINION: TACKLING COUNCIL OFFICIALS’ EXCESSES IN DELTA STATE

The challenge of development is arguably one of the greatest problems that have dominated world history. Aside from being difficult to fight a problem you cannot see or measure, what constitutes the greatest impediment in every development process says experts are ...

OPINION: X-RAYING OBASANJO’S OPEN LETTER TO BUHARI

The Supreme Court is not the highest Court in our land. Our highest court is the court of public opinion which meets every hour.—Seitel (1987). It is a common knowledge that one of the intrinsic privileges participatory democracy and election of...

OPINION: BUHARI’S MINISTERIAL LIST OF DOOM OR BOOM?  

Reinforcing failure is trying to solve a problem with the same washed-out tools, methods and live-ware. A president is as good as his cabinet; this is the reason competence and character, and not political value, must take precedence over...

OPINION: THERE’S NEED FOR MORE DISRUPTION IN AFRICA’S TECH SCENE

For most people living outside Africa, they imagine the continent as the home of poverty, corruption, internet fraud, infrastructure deficit, and everything that describes under-development, marginalization, oppression, bad leadership, insecurity, diseases, and many more. Although the continent is truly...

OPINION: BEYOND ETHNIC CHAUVINISM AND ETHNIC STRIFE

Nigeria is dangerously dancing on the brink of complete collapse and unimaginable catastrophe. Ethnic chauvinism and ethnic strife are on the ascendancy. The cloud of doom is hovering over the present and future of this country; and the unending...

OPINION: TERRORIST IN US CONGRESS

For quite sometime, activities rocking American liberal democratic institutions have revealed that sunlight is the best disinfectant. It's climaxing in hubris and backlash that's driving abominable nail of in-house terrorism into the coffin of American's majesterial democracy. In all of...