Opinion

OPINION: IN SEARCH OF A CHAMPION FOR NIGERIAN YOUTHS

The issue of the place and role of youths in Nigeria and how they have fared as well as their future in the prevailing climate of growing poverty, unemployment and uncertainty is definitely going to be a campaign issue...

OPINION: CODEINE BAN: THIS TABLE YOU’RE SHAKING

It was a bright morning during my university post graduate days. A morning in 2013 when a classmate returned after recess with a plastic bottle of a popular soft drink, and the bottle was being passed round the class...

OPINION: WHY STRONG CURRENCY IS ANTI-ECONOMIC COMPETITION; AN AGENDA FOR ATIKU ABUBAKAR

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Whenever I listen to some of our economists proposing a stronger naira I wonder on what economic development theory they are basing their argument. ...

OPINION: SARAKI VS IGP IDRIS: BUHARI AND HIS DANGEROUS PRECEPTS

How did this country get into the current debased level of politics? It is okay to now shout and explain away all the misdemeanour of this government but the consequence is that people running this present administration, by default,...

OPINION: I-C-I-NIGERIA; GOOD DEEDS WITHOUT POLITICS

And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 ESV "On every person's joints or small bones (i.e. fingers and toes), there is sadaqah (charity)...

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO ALIKO DANGOTE

Dear Alhaji Aliko Dangote "I do not only want to be known as Africa's richest man but the biggest philanthropist in Africa. I will continue to use my resources and my voice to help shape a better Nigeria and Africa...

OPINION: BETWEEN A CITIZEN’S RIGHT AND LEGISLATOR’S PRIVILEGES

Wikipedia defines a privilege as "a certain entitlement to immunity granted by the state or another authority to a restricted group, either by birth or on a conditional basis. These can be revoked in certain circumstances. In modern democratic...

OPINION: EKITI’S ULTIMATE GOVERNORSHIP DEAL

The stage is set for the July 14, 2018 Ekiti state governorship election.  I call the contest the ultimate deal. It is a deal between the people of Ekiti and those who seek to govern them. The candidate that receives the endorsement...

OPEN LETTER: PRESIDENT BUHARI PLEASE HELP STOP THE FURTHER HUMILIATION OF EX-STAFF OF NIGERIA AIRWAYS

Mr President sir, according to the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, humiliate means to make someone feel ashamed or stupid, especially when other people (Nigerians and the world here) are present (and watching). Indeed, it totally means, to embarrass...

OPINION: WHY SOME POLITICIANS ARE SUSPECTED OF BEING ETHNIC SUPREMACISTS MORE THAN OTHERS

I was researching for the above article for my last week’s column when news filtered that Buhari had used innuendo to accept Obasanjo’s repeated challenges over his ambition to seek re-election in 2019. It should be recalled that Buhari,...