Opinion

OPINION: APC AND THE BEAUTY OF DIRECT PRIMARY ELECTION

The mode of primary election to select candidates for the 2019 general poll is currently, and largely unwarrantedly, threatening internal peace and cohesion in the All Progressives Congress, APC. Rising from its leadership meeting last week in Abuja, the...

OPINION: APC AND OSHIOMHOLE’S NEW FOOTING

At the level of small talk and humour, you could hardly get the better of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former governor of Edo State, currently, national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress,  APC. But for a former national trade...

OPINION: PDP: THE CHALLENGE AHEAD

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Former Senate President, Senator David Mark, has become the latest entrant to the ever-growing crowd of candidates vying to become the PDP’s presidential flag bearer. Senator Mark, a former Brigadier-General who was president of the Senate from 2007 to...

OPINION: BUHARI’S ACHIEVEMENTS AS BAROMETER FOR VICTORY

As the countdown to the 2019 presidential election draws near, we are beginning to witness a barrage of declarations for the coveted office of the president of Nigeria. Now the lingering question is what are the aspirants bringing to...

OPINION: APC, OSHIOMHOLE AND THE LEADERSHIP QUESTION

The emergence of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on the Nigerian political firmament and its success at the general election in 2015, remain one of the greatest wonders of African politics. It was unthinkable that a party that was...

OPINION: 2019: RIVERS APC, TAM-GEORGE AND THE REST OF US

It is quite instructive that I am making this response to an article written by the immediate past Commissioner of Information, Rivers State, Mr Austin Tam-George on the strength of an in-box message by the  General Overseer of Who...

OPINION: ATIKU: NIGERIA’S DOOMSDAY PROTOCOL

In Central Africa and predominately Cameroon, there is a specie of frog called: Hairy frog. Like every other frog, it is amphibian in nature and carnivorous in diet; it feeds on slugs, spiders, beetles and grasshoppers. But one thing...

OPINION: DO YOU KNOW THE MEANING OF IBERIBERISM?

One dies according to one's weight; the robin does not die and make a resounding noise "on hitting the ground." Let me start from my awkward position of non-political conformity, governance illiteracy and say in the voice of Samuel Babatunde...

OPINION: HELP, THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR IS COLLAPSING!

Just recently, one of the biggest players in the manufacturing sector, Procter & Gamble Nigeria closed its $300m plant at Agbara in Ogun State just a year after it was opened amid fanfare by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, ostensibly...

OPINION: APC AND OSHIOMHOLE’S NEW FOOTING

At the level of small talk and humour, you could hardly get the better of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, former governor of Edo State, currently, national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress,  APC. But for a former national trade...