Opinion

OPINION: HERDSMEN KILLINGS: HOW NIGERIA CAN MOVE FROM CHAOS TO COMMUNITY

As Nigerians, our common goal should be shared prosperity. Since herdsmen are part of Nigeria, we must all do everything to integrate them into the loop of a prosperous Nigeria. And one of the most appropriate and universally acknowledged pathway to...

OPINION: VOTE-BUYING: JONATHAN GOOFED ON OSHIOMHOLE

In a season of partisan frenzy, fair and objective reaction to matters in the public square is indeed a strenuous undertaking. This is even more so when folks who (mis)speak don the toga of leaders. But, perhaps, more importantly,...

OPINION: 2019: A BRIEF MANUAL OF NIGERIAN POLITICS

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The political primaries are scheduled to hold between this month and the next and definitely by the end of October 2018, the hustling and jostling in Nigeria’s political arena would have begun in full earnest. The elections will be...

OPINION: INEC AND POLITICAL PARTIES’ NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had, as far back as when Professor Attahiru Jega was in the saddle as national chairman, formulated a body of rules or regulations that would guide and ensure the credibility of the conduct...

OPINION: REFUSAL TO SIGN OIL BILL (PIGB): IF ONLY BUHARI WAS NOT THE PETROLEUM MINISTER

It is grossly disheartening that both the executive and legislature could allow politics, personality egos, and party affiliations to supersede national interests and potential benefits due to Nigeria and her people from the passage of this very important piece of legislation,...

OPINION: TINUBU: WHAT THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN BABYLON MUST KNOW 

I have been thinking about Jagaban, Bola Ahmed Tinubu lately. I think he deserves an encomium for tipping into the expansive shoes of the sage, Obafemi Awolowo, by forging a united bunch out of disparate broomsticks. But honestly, I...

OPINION: PANIC: AFRICA WESTERN TASTES INCURRED ODIOUS LOANS NOW CHINESE LOANS

Chinese companies will takeover Zambia’s power utility ZESCO and the Airport. Your country is next! Once upon a time, an African country used to lend or grant money to some African and Caribbean countries to pay their workers’ salaries....

OPINION: POLLUTION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA  

Apart from the available data, our mind eye observes that Nigeria's income has been on the increase since independence. As the income increases so does expenditure. But as expenditure is increasing, so has budget deficit been on the increase as well. An...

OPINION: LESSONS FROM THE WORLD TO NIGERIA; THE BENEFITS OF ELECTING A LEGISLATOR AS PRESIDENT

With the internationally shaming, domestically economic debilitating and mass poverty inducing shenanigans going on between the three arms of government in Nigeria since nearly four years now, especially, the balaclava masking, macabre drama going on between the executive and...

OPINION: NIGERIA AND HER DEMOCRACY ARE AT CROSS ROADS

When former General Muhammadu Buhari unseated the incumbent president Goodluck Ebere Jonathan Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief, and the world cheered. The world believed that democracy has finally arrived at the doors of Africa's most populous nation. And...