Opinion

OPINION: FEB 23 ELECTION: NEW IPMAN PRESIDENT AND HIS DANGEROUS PARTISAN PREDISPOSITION?

If common sense is the practical ability to do sound judgement, then the Supreme Court -installed new leadership of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN) has glaringly shown that they lack it. The directive single-handedly issued in Kano by the...

OPINION: FELLOW NIGERIANS, HAPPY POSTPONEMENT

The decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone Saturday's election was received with what many Nigerian politicians would call a 'rude shock'. Over three years to prepare, with billions of naira to execute the project, yet...

OPINION: NIGERIA: ONLY FOOLS DIE FOR LOOTERS!

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A chapter in my new book, "NIGERIA: Why Looting May Not Stop," is entitled, 'Dying For Looters.' Tomorrow is the presidential and national assembly elections in Nigeria. One very sad, painful truth is that there are some fellows who call...

OPINION: ELECTION POSTPONEMENT: WHY NIGERIANS MUST KEEP HOPE ALIVE

The sudden postponement of the 2019 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, came to Nigerians as a very rude shock and triggered justified anger against INEC and the APC which many Nigerians accuse of being the...

OPINION: 2019 GENERAL ELECTIONS: WHERE IS YOUR STAKE AT?

Different types of governments have come and gone in the history of mankind and nations the world over. During these times, when the chips were down, visionary leaders and exceptional members of the body politic have risen to the...

OPINION: IS ELECTION WAR IN NIGERIA?

As I put pen to paper, millions of Nigerians are about casting their votes to elect the President that will be our national leader beginning from May 29th 2019 for four years tenure. Should the incumbent Muhammadu Buhari wins fairly, he...

OPINION: HAS NIGERIA FORGOTTEN LEAH SHARIBU?

As President Muhammadu Buhari, the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, moves from one state to another, campaigning for a second term despite nearly four years in office which has been widely adjudged a horrendous failure, a 15-year old,...

OPINION: ATIKU’S PRESIDENTIAL DREAM: AN OBITUARY – A REJOINDER

Mr. SKC Ogbonnia’s piece, Atiku’s Presidential Dream: An Obituary is powerfully and forcefully written as a PhD holder (SKC has one) is expected to write. Everything is well aligned; punctuations, syntaxes, tenses, even his logic is right up there. But his...

OPINION: FEBRUARY 23: YAY OR NAY FOR BUHARI?

As the countdown to the February 16 general presidential and national assembly elections begin in earnest, the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, President Muhammadu Buhari has naturally found himself the cynosure of all eyes. An extremely...

OPINION: AMAECHI IS CLEVER BY HALF

Failed Immediate Past Rivers State Governor and Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi is drowning politically. Therefore, he is permitted to clutch at straws. He is permitted to cry at the roof tops and peddle series of lies in...