Opinion

OPINION: SARAKI: WILL AFFLICTION RISE A SECOND TIME?

How fast things change? How quickly destinies turn around? In the first week of July 2018, the police had invited the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, for questioning over the infamous Offa Robbery. Tongues wagged, creating another round of...

OPINION: FORGERY: ADEOSUN’S DISDAIN SANS REMORSE

From the way the federal government is hedging over the saga of the forged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) exemption certificate by the Minister of Finance, Mrs. Kemi Adeosun, it is clear that the felony is enjoying condonation by...

OPINION: ARE WE STILL IN RECESSION? BECAUSE THIS HUNGER DEY VEX

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When economic syrups do not improve the health of a diseased economy, the medicine can be best described as fake, substandard, and voodoo-ish. Nigeria 'exited' recession in September 2017. At the time, the government made exorbitant promises, and bragged that...

OPINION: EKITI AND DELUSIONAL CORRUPTION FIGHT

In the past three years, Nigerians lived with a veiled notion that the nation has attained political maturity where the people's will prevails. Such a feeling, no doubt stemmed from wisdom born through the experience of 2015 general elections. But...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S WAR AGAINST THE POOR

Mummy Auduson, is a teenage mother who according to my findings is married to a Police Corporal in his early twenties who was amongst the recently recruited operatives. The salary of the husband is not up to one hundred thousand...

OPINION: DASUKI’S BAIL AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

It is more than two weeks now since His Lordship Justice Ijeoma L. Ojukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, gave clear, positive and unambiguous orders in the matter between Col Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) as applicant and three...

OPINION: ABOVE THE NOISE OF GOVERNANCE

I was in Lagos, our commercial capital. I had a paper to deliver to some youths on the future of the country. Although there is a popular talk about 'African Time' I am a stickler for keeping time. Since I...

OPINION: STILL ON BUHARI’S ASSET FORFEITURE ORDER

President Muhammadu Buhari, who went into the 2015 presidential election on the crest of a countrywide approbation as a man of integrity, could not have come better recommended by Nigerians for the task of clearing the nation’s Augean stables....

OPINION: VOTE ‘CASHUALISATION’ AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF TOMORROW

The July 14 gubernatorial election conducted in Ekiti state which produced Dr John Kayode Fayemi as the Governor-elect has affirmed the precarious state of affairs in Nigeria. The behavioural manifestations of political actors connected to the election indicated that...

OPINION: APC AND GOVERNOR ORTOM’S “RED CARD”

On Monday, July 16, 2018, Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom, announced that he had been issued a red card by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state. In contemplation of the governor's claim, three realities readily come to...