Opinion

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?  

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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...

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

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...