Opinion

OPINION: ONDO 2018 BUDGET: BEYOND POLITICS

The Appropriation Bill presented and submitted by the Governor of Ondo State, Arakunrin Oluwarotimi Akeredolu to the state House of Assembly for scrutiny and approval for 2018 fiscal year deserves a critical review in order to avail the public,...

OPINION: DON’T SELL YOUR VOTES FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF BAD GOVERNANCE

A four-year term is not an eternity. About three years ago when political forces were aligning and re-aligning against the former ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that eventually paid off and sacked that regime Nigerians had thought the historic...

OPINION: DISSECTING BUHARI’S/LUTHER’S DREAMS

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Psychologists say that dreams are actually activities that take place in the subconscious but some observers view dreams from a dismissive perspective. Besides Psychologists, the majority of those who profess religion of one kind or the other, see dreams differently....

OPINION: PAKISTAN: VICTIM AND ALLY OF TERRORISM

Given its painful birth, wars with India, support for terror groups in the Kashmir, role in the anti-Soviet war in Afghanistan, and reluctance to declare  war on its brand of the Taliban, it is easy to hang  a tag of terrorism around...

OPINION: NNPC’S 4,501 MISSING PETROL TRUCKS: BARU AND SUNDRY MATTERS ARISING

How can anyone explain that the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, could go to the investigative public hearing by a Joint Senate and House of Representatives Committees on Petroleum Downstream to tell...

OPINION: ETHNIC MILITIAS AND BENUE DRAMA KING

I have lost trust and confidence in some states in Nigeria to execute a function, as basic and fundamental as securing the lives and properties of their people. Every State Chief executive in Nigeria is aware of this sacred...

OPINION: DELTA ELECTION AS 2019 GUINEA PIG

For the first time, I witnessed all the participants in a recently held Delta state Local Council polls ( winners and losers)  alike, went  home cold in smiles after the results were announced on Sunday 7th January 2018 by the Delta...

OPINION: ON BENUE KILLINGS: THEY SHALL TURN AGAINST THEIR MASTERS

2 Kings 8: 7-15: "Elisha went to Damascus, and Ben-Hadad king of Aram (Syria) was ill. When the king was told, “The man of God has come all the way up here,” 8 he said to Hazael, “Take a...

OPINION: BUHARI AND THE REPUBLIC OF IMPATIENT PEOPLE

The catastrophic opening of the year 2018 with wanton killings of about 80 persons in well coordinated attacks in Benue state by the perennial killer squad (Fulani herdsmen) has called to question the sloppiness of Nigeria’s security architecture and...

OPINION: DEAR NIGERIAN YOUTH, EVERYTHING SHOULDN’T BE ABOUT THE HUSTLE

Dear Nigerian youth, I will be brief. Hello from the "woke side". I hate to knock your hustle, but you are about to give yourself up for conscription into an enchanted army of influencers and social media bugs again. You did the...