Opinion

OPINION: PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC TRUST 

Talking about the public institution, Mahatma Gandhi in his autobiography titled; The Story of My Experiment with Truth, among other things stated that a public institution is an institution conducted with the approval, and from the funds of the...

OPINION: OIL RESUMPTION IN OGONILAND: CAN IT HAPPEN WITHOUT WARS? PART 3

What are the Ogonis Afraid Of? An adage by the Ogoni people says, “The evidence that one has been where palm oil is being processed is a chin smeared with palm oil.” The Ogonis have endured both paradox of plenty...

OPINION: OSUN AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE

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It is nearly one year that Osun people went to the poll but they are left at the mercy of the judiciary to determine who got their mandate to lead the state for four years. From polling units, the...

OPINION: RE: BURATAI’S BRUISES ON NIGERIAN TROOPS

I recently read the piece by the dependable Festus Adedayo, who in truth is one of the best hands in the media landscape in Nigeria. I mean with a Ph.D. in Political Communication from the University of Ibadan, one...

OPINION: LETTER TO GOVERNOR OKOWA

Dear Governor Okowa, a very good day to you and here’s to wishing you well on your second tenure as governor of our beloved state Delta. We are constrained to write this letter to you publicly because of the...

OPINION: NASS STOLEN MACE: OMO-AGEGE ACTED CONSTITUTIONALLY, LEGALLY AND IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY

It is no longer news that one of the brawls that characterized the 8th National Assembly was the alleged ‘stealing’ of the mace, which is deemed to be the symbol of authority of the Senate by Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, the...

OPINION: OIL RESUMPTION IN OGONI: CAN IT HAPPEN WITHOUT WAR? PART 2

Was the clean-up a Greek gift? President Muhammadu Buhari’s announcement of the decision to implement the environmental clean-up caused great euphoria across Ogoniland. It was nonetheless accepted with caution if not scepticism by some people. Many Ogonis thought of it...

OPINION: NO NEED FOR PANIC, WORKING WITH MIYETTI ALLAH IN SOUTHEAST IS A SECURITY STRATEGY

Security is everybody's business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security.  All efforts are needed and all hands must be forged into one fist in the pursuit of peace. In fact, it imperils security if...

OPINION: OIL RESUMPTION IN OGONILAND: CAN IT HAPPEN WITHOUT WARS? PART 1

Current State of Ogoni: In one of Ogoni folktales, we are told that an old woman went to the forest to fetch firewood and almost used a snake as a rope. The story says after the old woman had gathered...

OPINION: HOW NOT TO RE-WRITE HISTORY 

Sometimes, I prefer to allow certain media publications pass without the necessary reactions.  But I have burdened myself by ardently believing in the axiom that silence, means consent or approval of an act which falls prostrate before reason, facts,...