Opinion

OPINION: ‘DEAD’ PRESIDENT AND DEAD MEN IN HIS CABINET

THE discovery of dead persons names on President Muhammadu Buhari's boards appointments made last weekend signposted a nation in constant trauma, plagued by inept leadership and a stubbornly disoriented clique that has held Buhari's Presidency hostage, while the people...

OPINION: NEW YEAR: EXAMINING THOSE UNRESOLVED ISSUES

It has become a cliché for people around the globe to declare an improved way of approaching life every beginning day of the year. It is popularly tagged "new year resolution". Everybody wants to be a better human being...

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI ON JANUARY 1, 2018

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Dear Mr. President, Your Excellency, may the Almighty God, the creator of heaven and earth, the merciful Lord who granted you the grace to survive your undisclosed ailment in 2017, also heal your son, Mr. Yusuf from the injuries he...

OPINION: WHY AFRICA’S YOUNG PEOPLE ARE THE REAL WINNERS AT THE CONFEDERATION OF AFRICAN FOOTBALL (CAF) AWARDS

Almost nowhere on earth is football followed as passionately as in Africa. It is loved by Africans from all walks of life across the continent. This week, I am giving the opening address at the Confederation of African Football...

OPINION: INTERROGATING OGANNAH’S COMMITMENT TO THE BULWARK OF TRUTH IN ONLINE JOURNALISM

There is no task in the community that is greater than the commitment to cleansing the Augean stables. In Greek mythology, the Stables cleaned by Heracles were owned by King Augeas and they had not been cleaned in 30...

OPINION: CHANGING THE PARADIGM OF GOVERNMENT SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT 

One of the defining features of the era we now live in, especially in the Social Media space is what I have described elsewhere as the “dwindling Quality of Public Debate in Nigeria”. One area where this decay is...

OPINION: HONOURING SERVICE CHIEFS WITH NATIONAL HONORS AS SEAL OF PERFORMANCE INDEX

In a coincidence with this writer's decision to pen this article, the Punch newspaper in its online version published the story "Buhari fails to award national honours in two years" to draw attention to deserving citizens that should be...

OPINION: THE BITTER TRUTHS; A WALK INTO FIRDAUS’ CONTROVERSY

“I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing...

OPINION: REVOLUTIONALISING NIGERIA’S POLITICAL SECTOR: HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL MIRAGE

Nigeria was named by Flora Shaw in January 8th, 1897. This was invented in the Period after her work for the Manchester Guardian.  This Nigeria,  has grown fiercely overtime through the breeding of some European Lords which had commenced...

OPINION: INNOSON, GTB AND EFCC: MATTERS ARISING

There are gaps in the competing version of events proffered by Innocent Chukwuma, Chairman/Managing Director of Innoson Motors and the GTB Bank in their business transaction gone awry. According to Mr Chukwuma, he obtained loans from GTB which he paid...