Opinion

OPINION: LEADERS AS LIARS ABDUCTORS PEN & ARMED ROBBERS

Dictators are easy to spot by their intolerance for journalists. Canada had raised concern about Saudi Crown Prince, only to retaliate. So, benefit from muted grace of doubt democratic leaders gave him. The politicians parading themselves as world leaders...

OPINION: OSHIOMHOLE AND TINUBU: LIKE AMBODE LIKE OBASEKI

The executive governor of Edo State, Mr. Godwin Obaseki won the heart of his former boss, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole who fought his battle to become the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2016 and subsequently, the...

OPINION: MUCH ADO ABOUT PMB’S CERTIFICATE

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Elections are around the corner again. Politicians and political parties are scheming on how to take over power or how to retain power in places where they are in charge, and therefore political shenanigans, propaganda, lies, outright falsehoods and...

OPINION: WHERE IS THE $73MILLION MALABU FUNDS?

In October 2017, the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Abubakar Malami, announced that the Nigerian Government had reached an agreement with the United Kingdom for the repatriation of $85 million from the Malabu oil deal. The sum was...

OPINION: OSHIOMHOLE, APC AND THE TANTRUMS OF BAD LOSERS

Democracy would lose its defining egalitarianism if it foreclosed the free expression of viewpoints by adherents and diverse stakeholders. This is a cosmopolitan truth. But the essential paradox of this truth is that the crucial element of free expression...

OPINION: WHY MOST ONLINE BUSINESSES FAIL

Even though  e-entrepreneurship is the new gold rush of the 21st century 90% of start-ups fail within their first year. Why? Lots of people try to make money online because in comparison to traditional businesses it's relatively easy to set-up and it's not...

OPINION: BURATAI: REDEFINING THE NEW SPIRIT OF SERVICE TO HUMANITY

Lieutenant General Yusuf Tukur Buratai; when I heard he had been made the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) of the Nigeria Army I knew we were in for a game changer. He first caught my attention when in May...

OPINION: POST-PMB: CAN AREWA CONFRONT ITS UNDERBELLY?

Although the futuristic question of: "After PMB, what next for Arewa?" may sound simply farfetched, in reality, it is not. When PMB won the 2015 election, indeed ever since he ventured back to partisan politics, most of the hopes &...

OPINION: FORCED PROSTITUTION: LINK TO NIGERIAN JUJU IS USEFUL NONSENSE

On October 23, 2018, I addressed a stakeholder meeting, the Academy of Nations, in Munich in Germany. This meeting brought together representatives of the police and the regional government, social workers, religious organisations, and other governmental and nongovernmental agencies....

OPINION: ENUGU APC AND EZE’S GUBER CANDIDATURE

At the end of the Enugu State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election held on October 4, 2018, and conducted by the Prof. Moses Momoh - led electoral committee, a former chairman of the Senate Committee on Works,...