Opinion

OPINION: INTERROGATING THE SENSELESS IMPUNITY OF BUHARI’S ADMINISTRATION

Pure and simple, the sack of Lawal Daura is simply a face saving measure by the most tyrannical administration since the nation returned to democracy. Nobody should be deceived, Daura was simply a scapegoat in a failed coup against...

OPINION: INVASION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS

Dear Nigerians, do we really understand the implications of the invasion of the National Assembly by the DSS? Can we reflect and understand that the soul of Nigeria is at stake? To those politicos misusing our security agencies, please do...

OPINION: AS ‘SAINTS’ LEAVE APC, THEY BECOME ‘SINNERS’

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OPINION: NIGERIA: A COUNTRY OF ANYTHING GOES NO DISCIPLINE NO LAWS 

Nigeria is an African country that is too big to fail. If it fails, it is not only going to overwhelm the whole of Africa, its effect would be felt across Europe and America. Yet, it does not have...

OPINION: A LESSON IN RESILIENCE

For more than three weeks last month 12 boys, the youngest of them being just 11 years old, were trapped in a cave in Thailand, not knowing whether they were going to get out – alive – or not....

OPINION: 2019: WHY NIGERIANS NEED TO ‘SHINE’ THEIR EYES

The old saying that what an elderly man sees while sitting down will not be seen by a young man standing up has been playing out in Nigeria’s contemporary politics. When interpreted the adage simply means that experience and wisdom...

OPINION: DISMANTLING THE CULTURE OF INDISCIPLINE IN GOVERNMENT

Whenever I remember that the General Muhammadu Buhari-led junta of December 31, 1983 to August 27, 1985 was anchored on the philosophical foundation of war against indiscipline (WAI), it always beggars belief that it is the same Buhari that...

OPINION: SO OUR DEMOCRACY IS ONLY UNDER THREAT WHEN DSS, POLICE HARASS SENATORS? 

I have become flaccid to the unending drag drama at the national assembly. And I have lost erection for the routine executive-legislature dominatrix. The reason is that I am in a "fair weather" relationship with both parties. In July, I...

OPINION: AS DISCOs THROW IN THE TOWEL

Keen observers and genuine opposition to privatisation of the power sector must be giggling with smiles at the recent turn of events. Core investors of Electricity Distribution Companies are beginning to throw in the towel, after five years of...

OPINION: IT IS NOW TIME FOR NIGERIA TO START PLANNING FOR 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP

FIFA 2018 cup matches are now over. The Nigerian team is back and Nigerian soccer fans stranded in Russia have been repatriated back to Nigeria, thanks to the Nigerian Federal Government. Super Eagles performance was just commensurate to the...