Opinion

OPINION: IF PRESIDENT BUHARI WERE A PATRIOT…

President Buhari is one of only two people who have ruled Nigeria both as a military dictator and as an elected president. In a country of about 100 million citizens, this is not an insignificant accomplishment. In Maslow's Hierarchy...

OPINION: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL’S EVIL SAINTHOOD

It is not usual to score an army, any army in the world, one hundred percent positive especially during an operation. The scores plummet significantly when that operation is during wartime, it gets worse when the war is unconventional...

OPINION: OBASANJO, BUHARI AND THE IMPENDING POLITICAL DOGFIGHT

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Buhari may have finally decided to accept the challenge thrown by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Speaking while receiving members of the Buhari Support Organization led by the Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Col. Hameed Ali (retired) at the...

OPINION: IKEDI OHAKIM, IMO AND THE GHOST OF 2011

To flow with this essay, reader is advised to first put on the cap of objectivism as reading without will be tantamount to wasting scarce energy reading the "nonsense" that is not. Yesterday in Owerri at the Wetherell Road Roundabout,...

OPINION: SARAKI, “OBJECTIVE” SUPPORTERS, AND 2019 ELECTIONS

After the famous June 9, 2015 National Assembly leadership elections, I was among the first set of commentators who publicly shared their views on the outcomes. Unlike many earlier commentators, I saw, I saw nothing wrong in the election...

OPINION: POVERTY IN AFRICA NOT ROOTED IN ETHICS INTEGRITY OR LAZINESS

If anyone ever comes to you claiming what distinguished “civilized” countries greatness is their hard work, integrity, honesty, responsibility, investment, savings, respect for the rule of law and their citizens; please tell him to get off your face. Before...

OPINION: THE PRESIDENT NIGERIA NEEDS BEYOND 2019

Successive Nigerian leaders have continued to show the limits in their delivery capabilities. This is because; as the electorate we never showed interest or is it that the ‘cabals’ prevented us from searching for excellence, nurturing excellence and reaping...

OPINION: AT LAST PRESIDENT BUHARI ADMITS NIGERIA IS A FAILED STATE

Without the use of bayonets, gun shots and hand-propelled rocket grenade thrown from the discordant opposing political parties, President Muhammadu Buhari blightly submitted his hermit government has caved in to the rampaging terrorist Fulani herders. President Buhari sang Nunc...

OPINION: WHAT NIGERIA’S CORRUPT ENTITIES WILL NOT TALK ABOUT

The corrupt entities in Nigeria in the days of the locust had one thing in common, one agenda in common, one focus in common, one target in common, one project in common and this is how to steal as...

OPINION: THE IMPENDING IMPLOSION OF APC

Just take the phrase: “impending” in the title above with a pinch of salt. I use the word because in politics as in life, things happen - as seemingly absolute situations become redeemable and what originally appears impossible could...