Opinion

OPINION: THE ONNOGHEN CASE AND OTHER STORIES

I find it incredulous that a ruling government that seeks a second term in office and about which doubts have been expressed with regard to its performance, the competence of its officials and the quality of its service delivery...

OPINION: REVISITING THE JUBRIL EL-SUDANIYA NARRATIVE

A number of dramatic incidents have been recorded since President Muhammadu Buhari came out on the hustings, preparatory to the February 16 presidential election. Those incidents have compelled a revisit of the Jubril el-Sudaniya narrative. Politicians' imaginations are fertile...

OPINION: AFRICA’S STUNNING VICTORY AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT

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Africa this Tuesday, January 15, scored a stunning victory at the Hague against the International Criminal Court (ICC) a contraption  of the West to maintain a neo-colonial strangle hold on the continent. On that day, the ICC like hot potatoes,...

OPINION: MAY WE NOT FETCH WATER IN A  BASKET

Honourable Oladipo Olatunde Adebutu, 57, is a wealthy Nigerian. He seems to have everything going well for him. He was elected into the National Assembly  in 1992, at 30. A Commissioner in Ogun State  from 2007 and currently a member of...

OPINION: A JUDGE DIES THE DAY HE IS COMPARED WITH A POLITICIAN OR OTHER MEN OF THIS WORLD

…My Lord, by whom shall we pass on your bribe? “Your Counsel is noble enough to know what to do” …My Lord, by what channel, manner or form shall we get your own share across? “I prefer the night hour,...

OPINION: HOW ATIKU CAN FIGHT CORRUPTION

Nigerians hope that present administration will sanitize the system where things like secretive employment, corruption and nepotism would be things of the past. Regrettably administration is characterized with high level of preferential treatment at the detriment of the Nigerian...

OPINION: BUHARI: NEPOTISM AS THE NEW DEFINITION OF MERIT

Right from his earliest appointments, Nigerians have complained about President Muhammadu Buhari's penchant for largely looking the way of the north and his religion in choosing government officials, heads of security agencies and most MDAs without recourse to the principles of equity and...

OPINION: A NOTE ON NIGERIA’S PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES

If voting in the February 16 presidential election were to be influenced by candidates’ performances in the January 19 presidential debate, then both President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and his strongest challenger, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic...

OPINION: CAN: PERSECUTION OF EX-CHRISTIANS AND WITCH HUNTING IN NIGERIA

It has become pertinent to draw the attention of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) to the risks and challenges that people who renounce religion face in the country. It may interest the officers of the CAN to know...

OPINION: BUHARI NOT AWARE OF CJN’S TRAIL: WHEN MAI GASKIYA LIES OPENLY

Just when you are tempted to think this administration still has a modicum of integrity left, they by themselves will just turn everything around to tell Nigerians that there is indeed nothing to do to salvage the crass incompetence...