Opinion

OPINION: CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF

I had long conversations with myself last week on the future of my country to which I have  pledged my loyalty, to be faithful, honest and defend with all my strength. Four events triggered this. I attended a lecture "Nigeria...

OPINION: AVENGERS AND THE CIRCLE OF CHAOS

The sudden threat to resume hostilities in the Niger Delta region by Niger Delta Avengers should be to all a reality to worry about. The reason is simple. if such outing which they promised will be brutal, brutish and bloody...

OPINION: BORROWING PLAN ‎OF NIGERIA… TIME TO PLANT

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Nigerians need to rethink their reaction to debt and borrowing plans. In the past two years, there has been much talk on the country’s debt profile which has risen to N19.6 trillion locally and over $64 billion total debt...

OPINION: AISHA AS THE MIRROR IN CHIEF

Nothing can be as good as having a spouse that doubles as the best critic of the other as it gives you the best mirror you can ever have of yourself and so far, Aisha, the wife of the...

OPINION: 2019: PERFECTING THE ART OF STONING

Dearth of leadership has become a cliché but the masses often at the receiving end of leadership deficit in Nigeria have become desperate and resolved in their determination to get back at their elected elites on account of poor...

OPINION: WHAT DO NIGERIAN LEADERS REALLY DO AFTERWARDS?

In the United States, there are three ways a president can leave office mid-term: death, resignation or impeachment. In Nigeria, there have been several impeachments especially legislative heads, and a few conspired impeachments of governors, only a handful can...

OPINION: STRATEGIZING AGAINST CONSTRAINTS FOR ASSET RETURN

Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue is first vice president of Equatorial Guinea and son of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, president of Equatorial Guinea. After serving in his father’s cabinet as agriculture and forestry minister, he was moved to the defense...

OPINION: THE CONFESSION OF A TRUSTWORTHY STATESMAN

"If we keep united and rise above petty or personal quarrels, we will surely achieve the desired CHANGE in the country", President Muhammadu Buhari while addressing the national executive committee (NEC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) recently in...

OPINION: THE UNTAPPED POWER OF CITIZENS IN GOVERNANCE

Protocols The role of active citizens in an effective democracy cannot be overemphasized. Nigeria is believed to have a population of over 180 million of which 120 million are said to be of voting age and yet in the last...

OPINION: PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI’S CORRUPTION FIGHT QUO VADIS?

President Buhari will like his administration to be remembered as the administration that finally stopped corruption in Nigeria. He is deep into the third year of his government and where is his much publicized corruption war? Is he winning...