Opinion

OPINION: KWARA 2019: TIME TO SAY E DON DO! O TO GEE!

By May, 2019, the long-suffering people of Kwara state would have, directly and indirectly, slavishly served a rampaging dynast for 20 years with virtually nothing to show for their loyalty! With only pain and anguish to show for their...

OPINION: MAKE WE CARRY SANGO SWEAR FOR NIGERIANS

The year don finish, so dem bin tell me one tory wey carry headache. A father in one of those highbrow secondary schools that pay in six figures took matters into his hands; how? So the school decided to get an...

OPINION: THE IMPERATIVE OF CREATING JOBS, GROWING NIGERIA’S GDP

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As the 2019 elections draws near, the issue of how to create jobs for the teeming millions of young school leavers, graduates and adults in the country is taking center stage. Creating jobs and growing the country’s Gross Domestic...

OPINION: OBAHIAGBON’S DEFACED BILLBOARDS AS POLITICS OF BITTERNESS

Reports of the serial defacement of the campaign billboards of the All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate in Edo South, Honourable Patrick Obahiagbon, aka Igodomigodo, are symptomatic of politics of bitterness, which should not be promoted by conscionable political...

OPINION: HOW KHASHOGGI’S INFLUENCE GROWS SO IMMENSELY IN DEATH?

With the new Yemeni Accord, Khashoggi's bloodshed is changing the Middle East eternally In the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, the Senate, on Thursday, passed 56 to 41 eminent resolution to curb U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen....

OPINION: 2019: OPPOSITION VERSUS STATE INSTITUTIONS

By the time Nigeria conducts its elections in February and March next year, it will be almost 20 years since its current experiment with liberal democracy – the longest period the country has been under a civilian rule since...

OPINION: BUHARI AT 76: WHY WE LOVE THIS PRESIDENT

"That's him, that's him," the two old women, wrinkled and bent with age, exclaimed. You could see wonderment and fulfillment in their eyes. And as if on cue, they both began to cry. It was in Bauchi earlier this year....

OPINION: STATESMANSHIP: LIKE JONATHAN, LIKE BUHARI

In 2015, while fanatics of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Orubebe were busy attempting to disrupt collation of results from states, the person they were fighting for and former President Goodluck Jonathan found it very necessary to...

OPINION: EFCC IS A ‘NON-PARTY’ WITH NO ‘LOCUS STANDI’ AND NO,NBA-NEC ISN’T JOKING

Five years after my NYSC,I still hold my boss in high esteem. Olumuyiwa Olowokure was not only understanding, patient and tolerant, he was courteous and very refined.He was a black oyibo. Oga O.O it was who when he called...

OPINION: HUMAN RIGHTS MILESTONES OF NIGERIA ARMY

On December 10th 2018, I breezed into the expansive headquarters of the Nigerian National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Yakubu Gowon way in the heart of the sprawling Maitama District in the Federal Capital Territory. That place is a like...