Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: THE OGISO OF BINI & IJAW CAME FROM ILE-IFE

The most objective way to tell the history of a people or ethnic group like the Bini is to look at historiography from their perspective. In other words, in light most favorable to them: In Jacob Egharevba Ekhere vb' Itan...

OPINION: END POWER SNAFU NOW MR PRESIDENT

I would like to join millions of Nigerians to welcome Mr President back from the UK. Our beloved president had been recuperating after treatment in a UK hospital. Many of us who were praying for him to get well...

OPINION: JAMB AND THE POLITICS OF CUT-OFF MARKS

I have followed with keen interest the controversy over the announcement of cut-off marks for Nigeria’s admission processes for the 2017/2018 session, with many commentators and the general public insisting that it is unwise, insensitive and retrogressive, to reduce...

OPINION: BUHARI’S MEDICAL VACATION AND THE NEED TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES OF NIGERIA’S HEALTH SECTOR

Before the return of President Muhammadu Buhari after more than three months on medical vacation in the United Kingdom, some Nigerians took to the streets of Abuja and UK demanding for his immediate return or resignation. That protest led...

OPINION: TARABA: GETTING BEAUTIFUL EVERYDAY

Taraba state was created on this day years ago and like the proverbial Phoenix, it has come out of its own ashes again and again, unstoppable. She, like a truly beautiful woman, continue to get fresher and finer even...