Opinion

OPINION: NEITHER FOR ATIKU NOR BUHARI

Few weeks back, the media savvy governor of Ekiti State Mr. Peter Ayo Fayose inaugurated his campaign for the highest political office in the land in the election that has already been scheduled by the electoral panel for the...

OPINION: OKEZIE IKPEAZU’S WILLINGNESS AND ACCIMA’S WEAKNESS TO DEVELOP ENYIMBA HOTELS

There is no hiding the fact that since assumption of office, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, executive governor of Abia State, has demonstrated unwavering commitment to partnering with good spirited investors to attract investment into the state and move it to...

OPINION: STEPPING OUT; THE HYPOCRISY OF RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA

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Our diversity or differences is not the problem but our will to unite is at fault. A people together not united, a people confident but not strong. The tail wagging the dog, rather than the dog...Dim CO-O So I was...

OPINION: GAINS BY KANO, BUHARI’S VOTE BANK, SECURE POLITICAL BASE

As President Muhammadu Buhari embarks on a two-day visit to Kano, his strongest political base this week, a simple question the Kano man or woman should answer for himself/herself is: How well did you fare in two years, six months...

OPINION: LIBYA: THE SLAVE-TRADING CAPITAL OF AFRICA

Activities of slave merchants trading off migrants stuck in Libya has earned the country a reputation only an exclusive preserve of countries like Italy, France, Portugal, Britain and Spain, who shipped Blacks from Africa in 1492 to work in...

OPINION: THE POLITICAL DUPLICITY IN MARIAM ALI’S DEFECTION TO APC

The gale of defections in the nation’s political circles is not unexpected, given the nature of politics in our country. It is difficult to pin a Nigerian politician and his or her political party down to any political ideology...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S ECONOMIC GROWTH PLAN AND THE NAIRA

The year 2017 started on a very stormy note for the Nigerian economy; Inflation was at record high, unemployment was above a 10-year-high, food prices were spiraling, and of course, the country was in its worst recession in 29...

OPINION: ATIKU: WHAT DOES IT REALLY MEAN TO BE A ‘POLITICAL PROSTITUTE’?

The recent  announcement by former Vice President Alhaji Atiku Abubakar  that he has quit the APC,  and suspicions that he wants to join the PDP to bid to become the party’s flag bearer in the 2019 presidential election, has...

OPINION: TRAGIC IS A COUNTRY IN SEARCH OF HEROES

Nigeria, a country of 183 million people hardly has heroes accepted by all. A culture of opportunism, lack of principles, parochial politics, ethnic jingoism and an uncultured elite, has made the  national  acceptance of our heroes, virtually impossible. The...

OPINION: ATIKU, ATIKULATION AND OTHER STORIES

"I hear say Atiku don port oh, from APC to God knows where..." "He used to be a Customs officer.  Going from one port to another should not be an issue or a problem for him. It is in the...