Opinion

OPINION: ZUMA: BLAME NOT WITCHCRAFT

People invoke witchcraft to make sense of misfortune in situations where they do not want to accept responsibility. They blame witches, demons and other evils spirits on occasions where they prefer to pass the buck or want to avoid...

OPINION: THE POLITICS OF ELECTION MONITORING

The  2017 Kenyan Presidential Elections were massively rigged right under the noses of International Election Monitors and Observers, and they consciously or unconsciously, whole heartedly endorsed the fraud. In fact,  within forty eight hours of the elections, the  head of the European...

OPINION: WANTED: A RESTRUCTURING OF MINDS

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Hearing some Nigerians speak (whether based at home or in the Diaspora) you discern that they are "in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity." They spew out things that give them away as "whited sepulchers,...

OPINION: FLOODS AND MANAGERIAL INCOMPETENCE

A fundamental reason for much of the criticisms directed at the person of the President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald Trump is his inexplicable skepticism and intellectual aversion for the facts surrounding climate change. Long before his...

OPINION: STILL ON BUHARI’S 32″ TV AND THE EPISTLE ACCORDING TO GARBA SHEHU

When you think you have seen it all and nothing from the presidency could surprise you any longer, then you are hit with even a more mundane celebration of oddities by Buhari and his team members. Nothing is more ludicrous...

OPINION: NNAMDI KANU AND THE ‘REDEEMER COMPLEX’

This piece was motivated by a number of related events around Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB): (a) The number of crowds he commands since his release from detention - whenever he goes in Igboland....

OPINION: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY’S AUGUST VISITORS AND THEIR STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE

The term 'August Visitor' is usually used to describe the visit of a highly dignified or important person or an unexpected visitor with unusual importance and influence. And such is the only way to term the last month's visit...

OPINION: BETWEEN AGF ABUBAKAR MALAMI AND THE OHANEZE STAND ON KANU

Nnamdi Kanu, the self acclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is on trial for the offence of Treason and Treasonable Felony among other offences. He was granted bail with conditions attached which he has since flouted...

OPINION: GETTING NIGERIA READY FOR A GREEN ECONOMY

Recent reports from around the world indicate that soon, there’s going to be a shift from a fossil reliant economy to a green one. That shift promises to be asymmetrical. Countries like the UK and Germany, after having spent...

OPINION: THE SECESSIONISM IN ALL OF US

Nations take pride in its unity and strongly oppose any forces threatening its peaceful coexistence. Evidently, the peaceful coexistence of Nigeria is under menacing threat from major centrifugal forces like the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). The IPOB is...