Opinion

OPINION: WHO IS GOING TO HEAVEN?

Everybody wants to go to Heaven. After our earthly lives are spent and finished we all want to go to a place of peace and happiness for eternity. It's what inspires us to live Godly lives. Some fraudulent pastors will...

OPINION: JULY 14: NIGERIA AND ONDO’S MISTAKE EKITI PEOPLE MUST NOT MAKE

With just a few hours to the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti State, stakeholders are putting final touches to their preparations to ensure not only a hitch-free election but also that the deserved party wins and continue to...

OPINION: PROSTRATE WE LAY BEFORE YOU, MOTHER CORRUPTION

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President Muhammadu Buhari, the Apostle of Change in the country while signing the 2018 Budget in the sixth month of the year, told   fellow countrymen that he was singing what amounted to a fraudulent bill. He claimed that "The National Assembly...

OPINION: BURATAI: A GENERAL WITH MANY SIDES

Whether it is a fact or farce, in time past, Nigerians came to believe every Army personnel is brute, cruel, inhuman, and sadistic and almost like a beast. In Nigeria, they are stereotyped as permeated with the mentality of...

OPINION: CAN OBJ, ATIKU’S CUPP SERVE NIGERIA A HOT CUP OF COFFEE? 

In Nigeria, alliance politics is a historical staple. In the 1960s, the NCNC and NPC forged an alliance to stabilise the newly independent country.  But the marriage segued from harmony to divorce. The skirmishes among the political parties – NCNC,...

OPINION: MY WISHES FOR ODILI AND AMAECHI

If I have the required power, I will utilize it to relieve some of my heart worries amongst which is to bring together former executive governors of Rivers state, Sir Dr. Peter Otunuya Odili and Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi...

OPINION: A WORLD, TOO DANGEROUS FOR CHILDREN

Australia, Israel and the United States (US) are countries of migrants, but they are also places that are dangerous for children, especially if they are not White. I am not referring to the  common-place massacre of children in US schools...

OPINION: IGBO INDEPENDENCE AND BIAFRAN IDENTITY

In this essay we will take time to clarify some areas that seem to confuse some people in the on-going Biafra separatist movement in Nigeria. Over the years, as will be expected, the move for the independence of Biafra...

OPINION: OF GUMI’S CRITICISMS AND THE USE OF KNOWLEDGE TO “COUNTERACT”

Dr. Ahmad Mahmud Gumi is an Islamic scholar, a son to Shiek Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, a fiery and outspoken father of the Izala movement in Nigeria—a movement that advocates puritanical Islamic teachings that went sour against a Sufi tradition...

OPINION: BURNING QUESTIONS ON THE RETURNED ABACHA LOOT

Over the last week or so, there has been heightened interest amongst Nigerians about the use of the most recently repatriated $322.5 million Abacha loot.  The questions raised around the issue include the choice of using the money for...