Opinion

OPINION: ISSUES ARISING FROM ABACHA LOOT

I just finished reading a syndicated story in some online news portals of April 9, 2018 with the headline: "Abacha Loot: Adeosun blocks $17m dubious payment to Malami's lawyers." From the headline, the objective of the report was clear:...

OPINION: BURATAI’S LABOUR OF LOVE FOR ARMY

The current Chief of Army staff Lieutenant General Yusuf Tukur Buratai will for a very long time to come remain a major factor when the comprehensive history of the Nigeria Army is written. My personal accounts of the person of...

OPINION: BUHARI’S SECRET PETROL SUBSIDY PAYMENTS: A NATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT?

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The difference in meaning between the two words "finish" and 'complete' is most times confusing but can be made clearer using the current Nigerian Presidency. Thus, when a country is ruled by a president who trumpets his impeccable integrity...

OPINION: ABACHA LOOT: THE MYTH AND THE PROPAGANDA

The Swiss government last week confirmed, through its ambassador to Nigeria, Chad, Niger and the Economic Community of West African States, Mr. Eric Mayoraz in an exclusive report with Daily Sun newspaper that Switzerland had returned the remainder of Nigeria’s public...

OPINION: VLADIMIR PUTIN AND XI JINPING: THE RISE OF THE NEW PRESIDENTS FOR LIFE

Just as Africa is busy clearing its stables of despotic Presidents-for-life, China and Russia are busy installing their own. President Vladimir Putin has a won a new term in office in an election that was marred by vote rigging and...

OPINION: THE ESSENTIAL DAVID MARK @70

"Paint my picture truly like me," Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) told the artist about to paint his portrait, "pimples, warts, and everything as you see me." David Alechenu Bonaventure Mark, retired brigadier general, former senate president and longest serving senator of...

OPINION: UNORTHODOX GOVERNANCE; THE APC WAY

Scandal in the words of Paul Glenn is a needless word or deed which does harm to those who hear or observe them, it is the word or deed that occasions sin in another; it is a bad example. Very...

OPINION: THE PARTY’S OVER: APC SATAN, PDP LUCIFER… BOTH PARTIES ARE FINISHED!

I'm not a politician. I'm a journalist. I see my power coming through my writings. A political party is about ideology. The ideology of both parties is corruption. I don't like either party. APC is Satan, PDP is Lucifer....

OPINION: AS INTERESTS FOR GUBERNATORIAL RACES MOUNT UP

While interests in the Presidential race are still low, the list of citizens showing up for the number one citizenship at the state level is increasing by the day. The presidential aspirants are seemingly waiting for the position of...

OPINION: AYEM AKPATEMA: WHY THE CATS CAN’T STOP THE RACE NOW

When President Muhammadu Buhari approved the conduct of the Exercise Ayem Akpatema, an operational name derived from Tiv vernacular, meaning 'Cat Race,' by the Nigerian Army, it was a huge relief to many families who found themselves in the...