Opinion

OPINION: APC, POLICE  AND ELECTORAL FRAUD 

Each  time issues are raised about the corruption and fraud being perpetrated by the Police and INEC in the Rivers electoral process, the Rivers APC rises up in shameful defence  of the two failing national institutions This  is understandable. The...

OPINION: CHOOSING BETWEEN NIGERIA AND MOROCCO

With the 42-year old Economic  Community of West African States (ECOWAS) meeting in December to decide on the divisive application of the North African Kingdom of Morocco to join, an all-inclusive public forum was held in Abuja Organised by the ...

OPINION: THE NIGERIAN TWENTY POUNDS POLICY OF THE SEVENTIES’ IMPLEMENTATION

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The twenty pound policy was an attempt by Nigeria to wriggle out of a messy situation it had in its hand because of failed governance; man’s inhumanity to man that resulted in genocidal behaviors, which led to a war...

OPINION: POLITICAL DISASTER: TALE OF DO-OR-DIE POLITICS IN NIGERIA 

Politics so they say is a dirty game. But such games in politics could be dirty or not depending on so many prevailing factors. Political indices have portrayed the significance of politics and how politics can alter so much...

OPINION: BETWEEN OHANEZE, NORTHERN ELDERS, AFENIFERE AND NNAMDI KANU

The move by the Federal Government to re-arrest Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) is, as expected, generating interesting conversations, grandstanding and competition for the moral high ground. The Federal government on Friday August 25...

OPINION: MAKING A CASE FOR THE NON-ADOPTION OF COMMUNITY POLICING IN NIGERIA

It is not uncommon to hear Nigerians especially political office holders make a case for community policing. Many believe that the Nigerian Police force cannot effectively maintain law and order with the current method of policing. Community policing, according to...

OPINION: MAMBILA POWER: BUHARI’S BIG BANG PROJECT SET TO TAKE OFF

Wednesday, August 30th approval by the Federal Executive Council, FEC for the award of the contract for the engineering, procurement and construction of the 3050 MW Mambila Hydro Electric Power Project reflects President Muhammadu Buhari's strong commitment to the...

OPINION: AS CORRUPTION TEARS POLICE APART

Nigeria has a debilitating social malaise which has to do with the lack of a sustained sense of national outrage over ethical and criminal offences that ordinarily should prick the conscience of a rational being. The majority of the people...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI STILL DOESN’T GET IT

After listening to President Muhammadu Buhari's three minutes, fifty-six seconds national broadcast on Monday, August 21, his first since coming back to the country from a 103-day medical tourism in the United Kingdom, I concluded that he still does not...

OPINION: HATE SPEECH SANCTION; TIME TO REFLECT, RESTITUTE AND REPOSITION

Hate speech is an integral aspect of a people gravely fragmented, failed in articulating collective aspirations. It is usually programed to illicit anger, hate, which ultimately dangerously affect corporate existence. Hate news in Nigeria has cultural, religious flavor, which...