Opinion

OPINION: SOCIAL CONTRACT: OUR MUMU DON DO #NAWEBEGOVERNMENT

The legendary Karl Max had unsuccessfully predicted the imminent revolution of the working class when individuals - the common man - would finally be free to develop their abilities and talents to the maximum. He had a vision of...

OPINION: YEARNING FOR SUPER EAGLES OF 94

How Nigeria can get back the football squad she had of 1994 through 1996 is part of my worries about the Super Eagles. From the onset, I must confess that I have nearly lost interest in the Nigerian football...

OPINION: BUHARI’S ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT AND THE RULE OF LAW

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President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in 2015 after emphasising his track record of tackling corruption, and his pledge to stop public officials from looting the country's treasury, after he rightly declared: "if we don't kill corruption, this corruption will...

OPINION: ATIKU: BEYOND POLITICS

Nigeria is at a crossroads. We have, in the last three years, witnessed a horrendous descent to the fringes of anarchy and a failed state. Collectively, our hopes for a better life have given way to horror as hunger, poverty,...

OPINION: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND BRASS LNG PROBE: ANATOMY OF ORGANIZED SABOTAGE?

To say that the Brass Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project has been streamed with too much tentativeness is an understatement and this concern is providing ammunitions for critics who have questioned the issue of genuine commitment of the shareholding...

OPINION: JUNE 12: THE LETTER MKO ABIOLA WOULD HAVE WRITTEN TO BUHARI

Following announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari that the Democracy Day holiday that usually holds every May 29, in commemoration of the Day that effectively marked the end of military rule in Nigeria leading to successful handover to civilian authorities,...

OPINION: REMINISCENCES FROM THE REMARKABLE RWANDA

My trip to Kigali, Rwanda for the African Innovation Summit was almost shelved for an important assignment in Abuja, but I was further persuaded upon learning that I could get a direct flight from Abuja to Kigali on the...

OPINION: PANACEA FOR PEACE, GOOD GOVERNANCE IN NIGERIA

Nigerians who were in the multipurpose hall of the Lagos Television at the weekend to parley on the peaceful coexistence in Nigeria must have gone back to their homes with purified minds to be good citizens and ambassadors of...

OPINION: LIVING WITH FAKE PEOPLE

Arkady Babchenko, a veteran of the Chechen wars in Russia became a Defence Correspondent working mainly for the 'Novaya Gazeta'. For  over a decade, he covered wars like those against Georgia and the on-going separatist conflict   in Southeast Ukraine.  He   incurred public displeasure in  December,...

OPINION: SARAKI AND THE NPDP: TIME TO CALL IT QUITS

In recent times, members of the New Peoples Democratic Party, nPDP, bloc in the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, have been agitating over what they consider a gross shortchange and maltreatment of members of their bloc in the power...