Opinion

OPINION: BUHARI VERSUS BUHARI…THEM AND US

A puppy thinks: "Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a warm, dry home, pet me and take good care of me... ... THEY MUST BE GODS!" Kitten and Pup love Getting Back to Happy A...

OPINION: THAT BUHARI AND TRUMP FINALLY MET

Please spare me the question on how I feel that President Muhammad Buhari and President Donald Trump finally met and shared beautiful ideas on how to cooperate for the good of both countries. Can any one measure my glee...

OPINION: THE MIRACLE IS THE PASTOR

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In the simmering  Abuja heat, a young man was busy giving out hand bills in the ever busy Berger roundabout and  behind are some hoodlums and street urchins smoking away cannabis and washing it down with alcoholic concoctions. They had retreated...

OPINION: GOV. ORTOM, TASHAKU AND IMPLICATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY

Social media is disliked by some Nigerians because of its unregulated tendency to churn out falsehood. Those who hate it have their reasons, just like those who love it. Like every human phenomenon, social media has its good and...

OPINION: THE TYRANNY OF THE GAVEL

Having enjoyed the privilege of spending eight years in the Edo State House of Assembly during which I was the leader of the house for some eon; and, thereafter, a member of the House of Representatives in Abuja for...

OPINION: WISHING YOU MANY MORE ‘RECALLS’

The failed attempt on April 28, to recall Kogi West Senator, Dino Melaye in which the 'Recallists' scored a miserable 5.3 percent, is not my focus. My mind is on matters arising which  are likely to feature in the 2019...

OPINION: DYING FOR LACK OF FOLIC ACID, ZINC AND IRON

Each morning, Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, Wife of the President of Nigeria wakes up with a picture of women and children struggling through challenges of hunger and sickness, having to choose between food and medication, sometimes losing both, battling lack...

OPINION: NNPC’S PETROL IMPORTS/N1.4TR SUBSIDY: BUHARI, KACHIKWU AND FALANA’S SEVEN-DAY ULTIMATUM

How did Nigerians get to this point that subconsciously we portray ourselves as dubious by default? It beats my imagination how we actually treat ourselves in this country and it shows that despite what we want the public to...

OPINION: DINING WITH TRUMP; RECALLING COLONIAL TACTICS

American President Donald Trump sat  on Monday, April 30 with Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari who was on a state visit  and told him: "We had very serious problems with Christians who are being murdered in Nigeria; We are going to be working...

OPINION: THE ‘LAZY’ YOUTHS OF NIGERIA

President Buhari, in all his wisdom, recently described the youths of Nigeria as lazy, unproductive, expecting everything in their lives to be free without putting in any effort since they were born into an oil-rich nation. In a sense I...