Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA, ATIKU AND THE MANDELA OPTION

The All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Buhari presidency would have since began to concoct another lie to tell the people of the Southeast, if you like, the Igbo following, the recent declaration by former vice president, Atiku Abubakar,...

OPINION: DEMOCRACY: RAISING THE RED FLAG ON OJUKAYE

The APC Federal Government is a tragedy of frightening dimensions. Through deliberate efforts of a clueless President, the institutions of democracy built over 16years are being destroyed on a daily basis. Never in the history of Nigeria had any administration...

OPINION: WHY BUHARI’S ‘800M WALK’ MAKES BOTH HIS HEALTH AND AGE LEGITIMATE CAMPAIGN ISSUES

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Do public officials owe the public full disclosures about their health status? Does the age of a political leader really matter when it comes to the leader performing his/her statutory duties? Answers to the above questions have never been straight...

OPINION: STATE OF THE NATION: MIYETTI ALLAH’S AUDACITY AND THE REST OF US?

A strange thing is going on in our land while we all watch helplessly. How come Nigeria within a very short time has turned into a nation of absurdities? Can you imagine the level of steps Nigeria has taken...

OPINION: KOFI ANNAN: ACTIVIST WHO LED THE UN

The world's leading organization of member nations known as the United Nations organization means different thing for different kinds of people depending on the perspective from which you are looking at it. An observer in the Western developed society would certainly...

OPINION: NIGERIA AND THE OBASANJO FACTOR – THE 1979, 1999 AND 2019 THRESHOLDS

Nigeria is a country in desperate search of nationhood. Our national anthem which was given to us by the Olusegun Obasanjo administration as a military Head of State seems in my mind the most precise articulation of our national...

OPINION: A DRY SALLAH AND OTHER STORIES

“Baba is back, we thank God” “You have started your mischief again. Baba said he will be back in two weeks, and he is back, so what is special about that?” “You know sometimes when the President goes to London like...

OPINION: A NEW HYMN ON TACKLING CORRUPTION 

Traditional approaches in tackling corruption in Nigeria have not yielded the desired results. Instead, certain emerging issues including ethnic, religious and political threads tend to undermine the successes of the fight against corruption and the rule of law. Recognising...

OPINION: APC AND THE DEFLATED BUHARI

The atmosphere is charged, the romance and night meetings yielding fruits, the intrigues, subterfuge, game plans, all intertwined to make the Nigeria’s political movie full of entertainment and suspense. It is indeed the defection season. That season when Nigerian...

OPINION: ADIEU MAMA GOLDCOAST DICKSON

First it appeared like some ill-timed rumour, which nowadays have become symptomatic of our ordinary existence. But speaking with the erudite Dr. Herbert Oye and His Excellency, our dear Governor Dickson, reality dawned at daybreak of today, Thursday 9th...