Opinion

OPINION: MARCHING THE TALK: WHY #MARKETMARCH

Ifeoma is the oldest of five siblings. She does not go to school and helps her mother raise her younger ones because of her poor background. In doing that she is sent to “Aunty Regy” who lives in the...

OPINION: INSECURITY: THE CONTINUOUS UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON MADA CHIEFDOM

The Mada people of central Nigeria are predominantly domiciled in Nasarawa State, with Akwanga as their seat of power, housing the paramount ruler. They are generally peace-loving people who are mainly farmers with vast, fertile and productive farmlands. Over the...

OPINION: THREE UNFORGETTABLE YEARS IN NYSC

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The current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari has secured for itself an unforgettable legacy so much so that long after the government reaches its zenith in 2023, the remarkable effort made by the government through the management headed by...

OPINION: AS CBN’S EMEFIELE RE-SCRIPTS THE ECONOMIC NARRATIVE

Resolutely navigating turbulent seas spawned by a mix of micro and macro-economic triggers, the nation's apex bank - Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) led by Mr. Godwin Emefiele - has provided circumspect, stabilising guidance that is being reflected in...

OPINION: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TRIBUNAL: BUHARI, APC AND THE ELUSIVE WILL

For few days now, the media has been awash with APC's faulting of the candidacy of Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate in the just concluded presidential election. The party is arguing that Atiku is a Cameroonian and ought...

OPINION: DEAR PROPHETS AND SEERS, WHEN WILL THE KILLINGS STOP?

In Nigeria, it has become a norm to visit seers or fortune tellers or prophets or some sorts of spiritualists to foreknow distant events and happenings. This foreknowledge is either for the seeker’s good or perhaps his community or...

OPINION: FUTO 4; DRUG ABUSE AND NIGERIAN YOUTHS

I remember with nostalgia how participants at a focused group discussion held recently in Lagos, bemoaned infestation of our nation by social problems perpetrated consciously and unconsciously by her own people.  Warning that under this condition, it may be thought audacious to talk of...

OPINION: GOVERNMENT OF THE PRIVILEGED RIGGED FOR THE PRIVILEGED, IGNORED POVERTY

How do we break the increasing number of African population in poverty with our Ethnic political system? Africans always model political system to western countries that gave us Independence. But there are different types of democracy from that practiced...

OPINION: JIBRIN FROM SUDAN, ATIKU FROM CAMEROON, BUT THERE ARE REALLY NO NIGERIANS

Before 1914, the geographical space called Nigeria existed in bifurcation – the northern and southern protectorates. And before the British savaged and carved out the area for immanent exploitation, there were thriving kingdoms, ethnic groups, cultures, traditions, and civilisations. In...

OPINION: “CAMEROONIAN” PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: WHAT ATIKU’S LAWYERS SHOULD TELL THE TRIBUNAL

Following submissions made by the legal team of President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the Presidential Election Tribunal that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is not a Nigerian...