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: MUCH ADO ABOUT CHINESE LOANS: WHICH WAY BUHARI? TO FACE EAST OR WEST? OR BOTH?

It was on the 3rd September, news that the Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is in China was all over my timeline, my flight out of Saudi Arabia had been postponed yet again so I had ample time to follow...

OPINION: THIS DISEASE CALLED ‘I AM NOT AWARE’ AFFLICTING PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES

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A scrum of police officers invades the residence of a respected Ijaw leader – Edwin Clark. The invaders claim they are acting on the order of Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP). These invidious executers of tyranny spend more...

OPINION: BETWEEN BUHARI’S NATIONAL INTEREST AND THE UNIVERSAL RULE OF LAW

"Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest" – Thomas Sowell Recently, during his address to lawyers at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari had...

OPINION: DEBTS: ROAD TO SECOND SLAVERY

Obi Nwanodozie is a little less than four years and is born into a farming family with tremendous landed assets in a rural community near the commercial heart land of Abia State known as Ntigha in Isiala Ngwa Local...

OPINION: RULE OF LAW VS NATIONAL SECURITY: THE PRESIDENT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN MIND, SOMEHOW, HE STATED THE LAW

“Rule of Law must be subject to the Supremacy of nation’s Security and National interest’...” President Muhammadu Buhari I have studied the above position of the President of Nigeria on Rule of Law and National Security, without mincing words, he...

OPINION: THE BIGGER PICTURE IN EKITI GOVERNORSHIP CONTEST

A day after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced Dr. Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the July 14, 2018, governorship election in Ekiti State, a video of Fulani herdsmen brazenly parading their...

OPINION: YOUTHFUL ELECTIONEERING TOWARDS 2019

President Muhammadu Buhari has a mixed bag of a unique legacy regarding the landmark passage and bringing into being of the legendary not-too-young to run Act of 2018. Buhari shares this glory with such political leaders like Senate President Bukola...

OPINION: BUHARI, 2019 ELECTIONS AND THE LAW

President Muhammadu Buhari reportedly declared in China, last Sunday, that he believes in the idea of free and fair elections, and that he is committed to this pillar of the democratic process. I don't expect him to say anything...

OPINION: RESTRUCTURING IS A NECESSITY, NOT AN OPTION

My attention has been drawn to a letter written to Premium Times in response to an essay on restructuring authored by me. Faced with an avalanche of public condemnation for his 360-degree turn on the concept of restructuring, it is...