Opinion

OPINION: #NIGERIADECIDES2019: INEC’S FALSE START

INEC has fallen! The result of this election does not matter any more to me and I can bet it is the same for millions of Nigerians. Nigeria has indeed fallen. The country we fought so hard to protect...

OPINION: WHY WE ALL NEED TO BE ATIKULATED TO GET NIGERIA WORKING AGAIN

There comes a prime time in the life of a nation when it’s citizens, democratically, determine the next course of action for the corporate existence of their country’s sovereignty - through a referendum or outright general election. Britain’s rattling...

OPINION: THE NATIONAL ELECTION AND NAGGING QUESTIONS   

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For close to two decades, Nigerians' have lived in a frightening situation called democracy.  And under this superficial arrangement, the masses lost sight of the real and lasting meaning of both democracy and political playing field.  And given the increasing...

OPINION: ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT (THE PLIGHT OF A TRUNCATED CULTURE)

Does anyone find this odd or even slightly cynical that we as Africans, aboriginal to our own land, would be here taking sides to defend or condemn either one of two usurping ideologies that were foisted on us either...

OPINION: SK USMAN: IDYLLIC OFFICER, ICONIC IMAGE MAKER BOWS OUT OF SERVICE

Certainly, a big gulf has been created in the Directorate of Army Public Relations (DAPR) with the sudden voluntary retirement of its current Director, Brig. Gen. Sani Kukasheka Usman. This shining Army officer, communications expert and iconic image maker,...

OPINION: TFP: WHISTLEBLOWER AND ERASKORP’S POTENTIAL DOUBLE JEOPARDY

The rumbling over the Trans Forcados Pipeline (TFP) surveillance contract is yet to settle despite the fact that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Ocean Marine Solutions (OMS) Limited had entered a new contract for the security...

OPINION: 2019 ELECTIONS: WHY OUR VOTES MUST COUNT

Erudite Professor, poet and world acclaimed Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe was apt and right when he proclaimed long time ago that: leadership was the bane of the country's desired growth and development. His honest and candid position is widely...

OPINION: THINGS THAT PERTAIN TO OUR PEACE

I'd never had the head for figures. In fact, the enmity between me and mathematics was so bad that if you gave me a bottle, and you asked me to use the bottom to write the letter 'o,' it...

OPINION: 2019 ELECTION: WHY WOULD ANYONE VOTE FOR PRESIDENT BUHARI?

With the 2019 presidential election days away, we should review the past four years, check what Gen. Mohammadu Buhari promised Nigerians when he was campaigning and determine the promises kept. Then we would decide whether he DESERVES our votes....

OPINION: REPORTER’S DIARY: HOW INEC SIDELINED CERLSI

On February 11, 2019, CERLSI visited the INEC office in Benin City. Our mission was to register CERLSI's position on our being sidelined from the voter enlightenment and education campaign programmes of INEC that would lead to the voting...