Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA’S 11:59 MOMENT IS FAR AWAY OR SECONDS NEAR

Last week, I had written about my beloved Arewa and the dire situation that she finds herself. I ended that particular admonition by saying that;"Battles are better fought and won through wisdom and strategy than through inflammable pronouncements and...

OPINION: EVIL HEARTLESS LEADERSHIP THRIVE IN ABIA STATE

Something took me to Abia state on Friday. Actually, I didn't plan for it but I had to. The last time I went to Abia state was in 2015, Aba to be precise. We got to Aba and it was...

OPINION: SENATE AND THE POLITICS OF ABBO’S INQUISITION

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These have not been the best of times for Senator Elisha Cliff Abbo (Adamawa South), an otherwise sedate but highly fecund personality, who has been in the eye of the storm since a video in which he was seen...

OPINION: HOUSE MINORITY LEADERSHIP TUSSLE: PDP SHOULD AVOID CRACKS WITHIN ITS FOLDS

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not new to power just as the party is not new to opposition. The party was in power for sixteen years at the centre just as it has been in opposition for four...

OPINION: MY LORD, CHIEF JUSTICE IBRAHIM TANKO YOU GAFFED AUTHORITATIVELY!

BEVERLY HILLS, July 19, (THEWILL) - The supreme court is an "ecclesiastical order''; it sits on high looking down on the ''lowly''. It dispenses in inexorable ''justice''; justice not because it is always just, but because it cannot be interrogated...

OPINION: THE EDO STATE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY DOOR AND THE LAST STAND 

There is no attempt to compare America with Nigeria, but the understanding of historical time which has no geographical boundaries is essential to the current Edo State tumult, brouhaha, and fracas. On June 11, 1963, Governor George Wallace of the...

OPINION: CHURCH, RACISM AND FAKE TRUTH – GO BACK TO YOUR COUNTRY?

A multiple – family – tree citizen of a country may not like the country, or some of its policies. The citizen may complain or may not, but it is often difficult for other citizens to use go back...

OPINION: 200,000 JOBS: IS OBASEKI OBSESSED WITH FIGURES?

I like bankers and accountants - the type that are obsessed and can fiddle with figures and even manipulate it. In addition to this, I appreciate them especially if such has a stint as a stockbroker, not necessarily an...

OPINION: MAKINDE’S ASSET DECLARATION: BEYOND A HOLLOW RITUAL

By making public the contents of his asset declaration form submitted at the Oyo State office of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) in Ibadan on Monday, July 15, 2019, Governor Seyi Makinde has, on the double, fulfilled one...

OPINION: ORJI UZOR KALU AND THE PERVERSITY OF A POLITICAL MISCHIEF MAKER

Right from his days as governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor Kalu has always been in the media for the wrong reasons. Sadly for the man, twenty years since assuming office in his ill-fated two-term tenure at the helm...