Opinion

OPINION: COMBATING AFRICA’S INEQUALITIES: NEW UNDP STUDY HIGHLIGHTS CHASM BETWEEN RICH AND POOR

Nelson Mandela, shortly after becoming the first democratically elected president of South Africa, spoke to both his countrymen and women—indeed, for Africans everywhere—when he declared, “We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power...

OPINION: BENUE KILLINGS AND BUHARI PRETENSES

FEW hours after the massacre of over 50 innocent persons; injuring twelfth of a hundred more and setting alight innumerable homes in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State by the Fulani herdsmen militia on the 3rd of January...

OPINION: BUSINESSES & INTER-ETHNIC MARRIAGES MAY SUPPRESS AFRICAN SELF-HATRED

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Businesses have always contributed a haven where you find people of different ethnic groups in pursuit of economic salvation. Any business that wants to expand its market share must expand to gain more people to patronize its goods and...

OPINION: BUHARI’S NEW YEAR SPEECH AND SAGAY’S OUTBURSTS

I was reasonably impressed with the overall tenor of President Buhari’s 2018 New Year’s message. Compared with some of his previous speeches, the broadcast was non-combative and represented an attempt to talk to Nigerians – instead of talking down...

OPINION: THE NEED FOR ADEQUATE FUNDING OF NIGERIA POLICE

The Inspector General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris last year called on the Federal Government to allocate the annual sum of N1.13 trillion from the Federation Account to the Nigeria Police Force in order to enable it to provide...

OPINION: BELLO’S KOGI WHERE ‘SPIRITS’ DRIVE

January 1st this fresh year of our Lord 2018 afforded serious minded national papers to announce the winner of their Person of the preceding year and one of the best newspapers that money can buy in Nigeria known as...

OPINION: THE NIGERIAN SENATE: ALL PERFORMANCE, ZERO PROPAGANDA

Like an old car parked in the garage, nobody cares about propaganda politics anymore. It's tires are now flat. It's methods are now known and its inaccuracies are now easily decipherable with the quickest click of your smartphone. This...

OPINION: RESERVATIONS ABOUT NIGERIA AND YANKARI GAMES RESERVE

A crooked eye sees the chicken that walks crooked. So if you are going to the Yankari Games Reserve once you fly into Jos, Plateau State you should be ready for some 200 plus kilometers of very favorable road by...

OPINION: DAY OJUDU WEPT FOR EKITI …HOW HE WAS PERSUADED TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR

These we all know about Senator Babafemi Ojudu of the 7th Senate and currently the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters: he is principled, honest and bold; he endured so much arrest, detention and painful torture for the...

OPINION: AS DELTANS GO TO THE POLLS, A REMINDER

With the Saturday 6th, January 2018 Delta state Local Council polls now around the corner, all eyes are on the state. This feeling is understandable as the ‘’ground of battle’ and the battlers have swiftly become unpredictable, full of intrigues and...