Opinion

OPINION: FIXING AFRICAN STUPIDITY

A lot has been said and written about Africa and the continent's inextricable bind to superstitions. Anthropologists have documented cases of unyielding magical manifestations and interpretations of reality. They have extensively explained the potent role of religion and the...

OPINION: THE APC SHIP IS SINKING…

When we wrote much earlier that the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria's ruling party was a coalition of strange bedfellows and a one-chance special purpose vehicle to get rid of President Goodluck Jonathan by all and any means possible,...

OPINION: FAAC SERIAL DEADLOCKS: WHEN WILL THIS QUARREL OVER SHARING OF FREE MONEY STOP?

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It has become a routine ritual that every month, the Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) must end with fighting over shortfalls in remittance of accrued revenue into the central coffer. This year alone, we have recorded seven deadlocks in FAAC...

OPINION: IMPUNITY UNLIMITED: THE RISE AND RISE OF DICTATORSHIP

We woke up on Monday 30th July, 2018 to another episode of impunity in the soap opera of the Failed APC Federal Government. Impunity is now the name of the game. They are desperate to surpass all previous records...

OPINION: SAMBO DASUKI AND NIGERIA’S SUBTLE DESCENT INTO ANARCHY

"We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history,...

OPINION: SARAKI, APC MESSY DIVORCE IS A CASE OF A BITTER SIDE CHICK

Senate President Bukola Saraki was never a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). His membership was in name, but not in character. Though he played a pivotal role in bringing the APC to power, his contributions were never...

OPINION: THE POLITICAL CONUNDRUM IN BENUE

Following the frenzy that has overwhelmed Benue state, the House of Assembly has been turned into a showground of monumental lawlessness. A mountain of illegalities is being built by the lawmakers in furtherance of selfish political agendas. The first...

OPINION: HAVE YOU WATCHED THE MOVIE SARAKICK

You don't ask a toad to give you a chair. You can vividly see it's squatting To say that Nigerians are easily excitable people is stating the very obvious and indeed our political players do not spare any effort in...

OPINION: ABUJA INVESTMENTS COMPANY AND FCTA UTTER NEGLECT OF A GOLDMINE

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), was established to attract sustainable develop to the FCT. However, under the leadership of the present FCT Minister, Mohammed Musa Bello, his administration has practically starved the city and the nation at large...

OPINION: 2019: BETWEEN LOOSE BROOM AND THE ‘SAFE’ UMBRELLA

Oh My home, Oh My home When shall I see my Home? APC Suffer Me O, When shall I see my PDP, I will never forget my home! (Dino Melaye, 2018) The political ecology of Nigeria witnessed the first batch of defectors last week from...