Opinion

OPINION: SARAKI PROVES ODDS OF WINNING AGAINST CORRUPTION 1:99

The Senate President Bukola Saraki has been “vindicated” by the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land. It is not the first time. James Ibori also fought all the way to Supreme Court before he was also “vindicated”....

OPINION: WHERE ARE NIGERIA’S EDUCATED MEN AND WOMEN

If the educated citizen does not defend the pursuit of learning, it will not be defended at all. For there will always be those who scoff at intellectuals, who cry out against research, who seek to limit our educational...

OPINION: TIME TO END THE NEEDLESS WAR IN AFGHANISTAN

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Afghanistan, a country that has been at war with the Soviets, internally and with the Americans for thirty eight years is desperately in search of peace. A three-day Eid  festival  truce between the Taliban fighters and the President Ashraf Ghani-led Afghan...

OPINION: THE ADEBAYO ADEDEJI EXAMPLE

Professor Adebayo Adedeji, the towering intellectual, scholar, pan-Africanist, international civil servant and pioneer Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations (1975 -1991) died on April 25, 2018 at...

OPINION: WHY BENUE PEOPLE WANT GOVERNOR SAMUEL ORTOM OUT

The 2015 election was full of intrigues. It was indeed a crossroad for the people of Benue state having been battered by the poor performance of the then government of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Ex-Governor, Gabriel...

OPINION: MR. TRUMP AND HIS SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS

As we wait the nomination, confirmation, and the assumption of office by Mr. Trump's Supreme Court nominee we must bear in mind the following facts of life. 1. The president will nominate a person whose beliefs at the moment corresponds...

OPINION: GOVERNOR WIKE AS APC’S NIGHTMARE

When Rivers State Executive Council released the programme for the Third Year Anniversary Celebration of the Wike administration, the APC did not realise that it was a nail on their political coffin. Though the party was already dead in Rivers...

OPINION: THE RISE AND RISE OF ‘NIGERIAN’ OUTLAWS

Tomorrow July 10th 2018, my young sister-in-law Miss Chidinma Izuagba will join her fellow law school graduates to be called to the Nigerian Bar as solicitors and advocates of the supreme court of Nigeria. The Nigerian council for legal education which coordinates...

OPINION: NOT TOO YOUNG TO RUN, OR RUN AWAY

Almost all  foundations floated by First Ladies are political gimmickry. They die as soon as their spouses leave office. But the staying power of the Leadership Empowerment And Resource Network, LEARN,  its deepening commitment to the youths and assisting to solve...

OPINION: THE NIGERIAN FOOTBALL FARCE (NFF)

The 2018 World Cup has come and gone for Nigeria at least. The Fiesta in Russia was a spectacle of magical proportions. The country surprised her guests in many ways that left a very positive experience for the mass...