Opinion

OPINION: BUHARI’S JIHAD ON ‘HERDS-MEDIA’ 

Here, I am making this particular call on my Nigerian Christian compatriots. I want them to see the truth in the unity of Nigeria, unlike ever before. I make this call out of patriotism with a heart full of...

OPINION: KWANKWASO’S CASTLE IN THE AIR

Recently, the former governor of Kano State and a serving senator, Engr. Rabi'u Musa Kwankwaso, in continuation of his day-dreaming fuelled by megalomania, ventosity and vain-glory claimed that he is the right stuff to defeat the incumbent President of...

OPINION: WHY NEMA MUST BE PURGED OF CONTRACTORS MASQUERADING AS CIVIL SERVANTS

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There is no doubt that the formation of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) by government was informed by the need to urgently respond to emergency, arising from disaster which could be natural or manmade. Since NEMA is a special...

OPINION: MACRON, CAMEROON AND THE SHRINE

I actually planned to write this piece few days before the arrival in Nigeria of the young French president Monsieur Emmanuel Macron so as to remind him of the unfinished business that his nation has in Nigeria's South Eastern...

OPINION: TUKUR BURATAI: REFLECTING ON THE COUNSEL OF A MASTER STRATEGIST

Nigeria's Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and leader of the counter-insurgency operations, Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai is one enigmatic leader. He is passionate and tenaciously works according to his convictions on service to fatherland. Every day he steps out...

OPINION: A NATION IN GRIEF AND THE NEED FOR RESTRUCTURING

Justice, in the words of Thomas Aquinas, is the act of rendering to each person what is truly his or hers and, comes in two different forms; commutative and distributive. While commutative justice calls for equality between two persons, distributive...

OPINION: DID BUHARI SIGN A PADDED 2018 BUDGET?

As a patriot, I have sympathy for President Muhammadu Buhari, not because he is a cool-headed, slow but steady, articulate and incorruptible leader. No! My stand is far from that. I am often with the spirit of supporting the...

OPINION: OF NATIONAL CONVERSATIONS, PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES AND BIG IDEAS

The late business mogul, philanthropist and winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, put his nose to the grindstone to be president of Nigeria. Abiola was almost stepping in the saddle, but the...

OPINION: AS EUROPE BATTLES IMMIGRATION

These are certainly highly perilous times for a modern day African. As I watched the international news channels and see little babies strapped to the mothers' backs in some derelict boats off the shore of the perilous Mediterranean Sea, my...

OPINION: SPATE OF  FULANI HERDSMEN KILLINGS: BUHARI, MIYETTI ALLAH AND THE REST OF US

Did President Mohammadu Buhari actually say in Jos during his visit that it was unfair for people to accuse him of not doing enough to check the marauding killer herdsmen because he looks like them (Fulani herdsmen)?  If he did,...