Opinion

OPINION: MILITARY OPS IN NIGER DELTA: SHIFTING ATTENTION FROM THE REAL OIL THIEVES

It is an aberration that the Nigerian government is spending billions of naira annually on the fleet of military operations to clamp down on illegal refiners while the arenas of stealing of Nigerian crude oil on industrial scale are...

OPINION: WHAT IS WRONG WITH RIVERS STATE?

Each successive Governor of Rivers State somehow gets to be showered with so man awards from different groups and organizations each year yet Rivers State and Rivers people do not get any reward. In 2003, Dr Peter Odili, Governor of...

OPINION: FREEING EL ZAKZAKY IS A MUST

Great Britain and the United States of America are strong constitutional democracies today for a number of fundamental reasons. Significantly, the above mentioned nations are respected constitutional democracies because of the strength of their democratic institutions and the enforcement of...

OPINION: FOUR YEARS AFTER–CHIBOK GIRLS, AND TALES OF NATIONHOOD

All idiots are morons, but not all morons are idiots. Over the last four years, I have done a sizable amount of work on not just Boko Haram but also the Chibok girls, killings, abductions and Nigeria's conflict torn Northwest...

OPINION: PDP 16 VS APC 3: THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR

On May 29, 2018, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will be three years in power; that is to say that it will be three years in its leadership of the federal government of Nigeria. By extension, the APC...

OPINION: WHAT LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS DID NOT TEACH AFRICANS

Why African gold cannot back African currencies? What African scholars did not learn in London School of Economics, Wharton School and others is that politics of western privileges comes before economics or Gold Standard. Politics dictates which economic theories...

OPINION: ATHEISM AND CHANGING RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

The impression remains that Northern Nigeria is overwhelmingly religious. Mainly populated by Christians, Muslims and traditional religionists, the idea is that no atheists exist in this region. However, the religious demography of Northern Nigeria is undergoing a rapid change....

OPINION: BOKO HARAM UNDERSTANDS WHAT MOST OF US DON’T… THE POWER OF EDUCATED GIRLS

Four years have passed since 14th April 2014 when 276 girls were abducted in a girl’s secondary school in Chibok, Borno state in the northeast of Nigeria by the Boko Haram Terrorist group. The outpouring of emotions was unlike...

OPINION: PORT HARCOURT, THE CITY OF SOOT

Port Harcourt, the capital city of Rivers State has been completely taken over by soot, an airborne contaminant which is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. The increasing level of soot in the...

OPINION: ARMED FULANI: LIMITS OF PRESIDENTIAL IMPUNITY

I watched in considerable trepidation and anxiety as my President who is vacationing in London, in the United Kingdom held a conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury around the issues of the pre-meditated mass murders by armed Fulani herdsmen...