Opinion

OPINION: DANKWAMBO AND THE PDP QUEST FOR POWER

There is no doubt that the recent release of election timetable and schedules of activities for the 2019 general elections by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has altered some political calculations and permutations across the country. According to the...

OPINION: MALAMI’S JITTERY UNBECOMING FOR NIGERIANS

As I am inclined to brood over the state of your principal function as the Attorney General of the Federation, I could not have suffered my thoughts to have it smeared by the consequence of opinions to have thought...

OPINION: THE HAUSA-FULANI CABAL, ATIKU AND THE REST OF US

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Recently, I read the highly insightful and incisive intervention by an anonymous author on the rigged structure of Nigeria and the abysmal level of distrust in the interactions and relationships among the ethnic nationalities that comprise our nation.  A former...

OPINION: IGBO LADIES ARE THE MOST LOVING MARRIAGE PARTNERS

There are good women everywhere but there are certain virtue you observe in most Igbo ladies that you do not often see in other women. It is when Igbo ladies marry only within their ethnic group; they are more...

OPINION: AVOIDING RWANDAN TYPE GENOCIDE

The United Nations as we know it came about as a result of the aftermath of the killings that characterized the first and second World Wars. In those two wars, millions of members of the human race were slaughtered. But the...

OPINION: A PARTY THAT HAS LOST ITS SOUL

As the mid-term political campaigns begin, perhaps we should pause and think where this country is headed under the leadership of Trump, with the House and Senate in control of the Republican party—a party that has lost its soul...

OPINION: BETWEEN DECAMPING AND GOVERNANCE

The other day Dele Agekameh continued the hype of Atiku’s decamping from the APC to the PDP. It is clear it has generated a spirit that has possessed Nigeria in recent times. The hullabaloo is buzzing, akin to Nigeria...

OPINION: TAMBUWAL: LEADER, MENTOR, VISIONARY CLOCKS 52 

Six years ago, five young Nigerians graduated from Usmanu Danfodio University with a bachelor’s degree in Law and were on the verge of missing admission into the Nigerian Law School due to lack of finances. Over dinner, it was mentioned...

OPINION: INSECURITY: HOW PRESIDENT BUHARI IS MAINTAINING PEACE AND SECURITY

“I want to assure you without mincing words that the Boko Haram terrorists have been defeated, all we are fighting for now is the peace in the northeast'' - Lt Gen Tukur Y. Buratai The maintenance of national peace and...

OPINION: BUHARI: HEADING FOR A MELTDOWN IN 2019?

We are now fully in the political season. With INEC releasing the time-table for the 2019 elections, hush-hush political discussions and permutations are likely to become more brazen.  . One of the issues that have dominated the media recently is...