Opinion

OPINION: ‘RELEASED’ $1BN ECA FUNDS: ANOTHER SCANDAL?

It's no longer news to Nigerians and the rest of the world that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is soiled with tales of scandals, which have discredited the holier-than-thou image of the government. From former President Olusegun Obasanjo's bombshell...

OPINION:TAKEAWAYS FROM THE AUSPICIOUS MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENTS MUHAMMADU BUHARI AND DONALD TRUMP

This note is written by one who is mindful of the fact that there are Nigerians, I mean the opponents of this administration, who have prayed and prayed very hard that our President in the course of his historic...

OPINION: SO, WHO WON THE BUHARI CHALLENGE?

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Scattered across the FCT are heaps of truck-filled sand, Caterpillars and the evidence of their work: bridges and roads under construction, some finished, some still in progress. Residents of the FCT can testify to the abundance of construction sites...

OPINION: A HUMANIST CASE FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE IN JOS

A case for the promotion of humanist values in Jos cannot be overemphasized because, for over a decade, the value of humanity in this central Nigerian city and its neighbourhoods has been under vicious assault. This assault has scared...

OPINION: UI’S EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF POST-UTME SCREENING

Recently, the Senate of the University of Ibadan approved the withdrawal of 408 students from the University owing to poor academic performance and failure to meet the minimum requirements to stay on in the 70-year-old premier University. Known for...

OPINION: 2019: BUHARI AND THE TRADITIONAL LEADERS

"We have endorsed Buhari's re-election because the policies and template of development already laid down by him in the last three years are already yielding fruit and needed to be actualized in his next four years in office", His...

OPINION: WANTON KILLING OF BENUE PEOPLE UNACCEPTABLE

It is sad that when other communities in Nigeria are brazing up to the challenges of development, Benue people are burying scores of their own. It would appear that the intractable challenge of daily slaughtering of Benue sons and...

OPINION: POPE FRANCIS, TRUMP AND BELEAGUERED NIGERIA

Today in faraway Washington District of Columbia, the political capital of the United States of America, the eyes of the World would focus on Nigeria because the embattled president of Nigeria Muhammadu Buhari is a guest of the tough...

OPINION: BUHARI’S US SPEECH IS RICE WITHOUT STEW

I listened to the speech of President Muhammadu Buhari in the quaking consciousness of an Arsenal Football Club fan. Every football aficionado knows that the club has not been performing "exceptionally" lately. Before Buhari, US President Donald Trump spoke. He...

OPINION: THEY KILLED SARO-WIWA AND OTHERS, NOW THEY WANT TO KILL ALL OGONIS

Nigeria has indeed degenerated into a killer nation. All you hear are people being killed here and there and unfortunately, the government appear helplessly overwhelmed and seemingly has given up. While herders and farmers are on the killing spree...