Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA WAVES GOOD BYE TO FLAMBOYANCE AT UNGA, SNIPPETS ON PMB’S ARRIVAL

Often times Nigerians ask the question: "Where is the Change we were promised by the President Muhammadu Buhari in his 2015 Presidential Campaign?" The question is legitimate in the sense that the electorate still remains the masters while the President...

OPINION: 2019: THE JACKALS AND HYENAS GOVERNING IMO STATE

Imo State is in bondage, leadership bondage. And what we have seen in the last six years is kung-fu governance run by Jackals and Hyenas in Government House, Owerri. Never in the history of Imo State have we seen such...

OPINION: INSIDE ASUU AND FG’S MEMORANDUM OF ACTION

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It is no longer news that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ‘conditionally suspended’ its five weeks old strike embarked upon to force the Federal government (FG) to implement the 2009 agreement and the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...

OPINION: HOW THE SOUTHEAST FELL AGAIN INTO THE TRAP

At the time there is stern condemnation of the activities of Boko Haram in the north east and the Kaduna killings in the northwest of Nigeria, the Southeast has swallowed the bait set for it by its enemies. O...

OPINION: RE: HURIWA AS IPOB’S NGO WING

A certain Emmanuel Otairu who identified himself as someone attached to Center for international and strategy studies Abuja penned a vexatious, libellous, false and jaundiced piece which he apparently syndicated a shortwhile ago which i have just read on...

OPINION: THE PYTHON DOES NOT DANCE…

Operation code-names have been an important part of military operations since the Germans first applied them in World War 1 but it may be said that the recent (or ongoing?) controversial military exercise in the South Eastern part of...

OPINION: OUR DEPRAVED SOCIETY

A few days ago a rather chilling and disturbing video emerged, online, of a young teenage girl cradling a recently decapitated human head. On her own admission she was going into the bush to bury it and she had...

OPINION: THE CHILDREN  OF THE NIGER AREA

Nigeria which derived its name from the 'Niger Area' is a beautiful country with   human and natural resources, and capability to pull the Black Race by the bootstraps out of underdevelopment. As a consummate patriot, Odia Ofeimum usually tells me,  "Nigeria  is...

OPINION: ARMY, IPOB DANCE: A RITUAL CEREMONY FOR A POGROM

Rules of engagement are not cast in iron when it comes to dealing with security threats. It is instructive to make proper assessment, analysis of a situation before government deploy troops to a place no matter how annoying, destructive...

OPINION: BIAFRA AGITATION: DISCONTENTED YOUTHS AND FAILURE OF THE NIGERIAN STATE

As I write this piece, a military operation called Operation Python Dance takes place. Its target is a secessionist movement in Nigeria's Southeast, led by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This military operation is intended to clamp down on real...