Opinion

OPINION: 2019 ELECTIONS: WHY PROFESSOR MAHMOOD YAKUBU MUST NOT FAIL

This week's discourse topic presents an instant problématique for those familiar with my preferred panacea of an institutional approach to resolving Nigeria's policy quandary. While I have conceded, that individuals drive policy processes, I had always argued that when...

OPINION: 2019 PRESIDENCY, MOGHALU AND PREBENDAL POLITICS

I received a verbal invitation on February 22, 2018 to attend a world press conference by former deputy governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Professor Kingsley Moghalu, scheduled for February 28, 2018 at the Yar’Adua Centre in Abuja....

OPINION: YOBE ABDUCTIONS; IMAGINE IF YOUR CHILD WAS IN #DAPCHI

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"No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something...

OPINION: ONLY BLACK PANTHER CAN STOP BOKO HARAM

Boko Haram has brandished its fangs in the most daring way this week. Attack after attack, but with a new onslaught trouncing the old one in audacity, gruesomeness and fatality. Between Thursday and Friday, Boko Haram launched coordinated attacks, like...

OPINION: AFRICA’S TAKEAWAY FROM THE WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM

The World Economic Forum for 2018 may have come and gone, but the question that will linger remains what lessons African leaders took out of it. The summit in Davos had 'Creating a Shared Future in a Fractured World'...

OPINION: CHIBOK AND DAPCHI GIRLS: THE WHOREDOM OF KARMA

“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, and second, as farce.” -Karl Marx On Monday, February 19, 2018, Boko Haram insurgents invaded Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe state, abducting 110 of the 906 student population.  It was yet another...

OPINION: TOWARDS A SKEPTICAL AWAKENING IN MOZAMBIQUE

Where are the skeptics in Mozambique? Where are the critical thinking persons in this country and what are they doing? Going by the statistics out there, Mozambique is one of the most irreligious nations in Africa. According to the...

OPINION: RE-THINKING THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

Nigeria’s ranking in the recently released 2017 Corruption Perception Index (CPI), contrary to the headlines, does not show that the incidence of corruption in the country has grown worse since 2016. The CPI, published by the global corruption watchdog,...

OPINION: WHY GOV. EL-RUFAI MUST ARREST RELIGIOUS MAYHEM IN SOUTHERN KADUNA

Mallam Nasir El-Rufai has been unfortunate to be voted in as the "accidental governor" of Kaduna State. Since 1980, the crocodile state has been floating on the river of blood visited on it by those who find it nauseating...

OPINION: THE COMPLAINING NATION: WHICH WAY FORWARD

The Nigeria project has been on my mind for decades now and the more I try to forget about Nigeria and her problems, the more I get a push that I should not be discouraged in joining hands with...