Opinion

OPINION: CITIZENS GROAN IN DARKNESS AS POLITICIANS SPAT 

Few days after ailing President Muhammadu Buhari was airlifted to an unspecified medical facility in Great Britain, his Vice who immediately swung into action in line with constitutional provisions as acting President made two shocking visits. Professor Yemi Osinbanjo who...

OPINION: RENO OMOKRI: WHEN A MEDIA AIDE BECOMES A SLAVE BOY

We must have heard how the former media aide to erstwhile president Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, the self-called pastor and founder of the Mind of Chrsit Christian Centre, embarked on an ill-advised and futile attempt at lecturing the Igbo...

OPINION: THE PERSECUTION OF OGBADU AND THE BURDEN OF REFORMS 

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In the midst of the challenges besetting the nation it has become easy to mix the grain with the chaff and possibly throw away that which is valuable because of a now dominant tendency to pull down anyone in...

OPINION: CHIDI LLOYD: THE UNENDING UGLY COMEDY OF A MURDER SUSPECT

The failure of the APC to provide leadership in Nigeria has emboldened kidnappers, criminals and murderers to become television stars. From being a fugitive, murder suspect and notorious "Akpako Master ", Mr Chidi Lloyd has become a star on...

OPINION: DANGOTE AND AREWA YOUTHS’ UNCOUTH RANTING

Madness has no defined pattern. To insist on orderliness in insanity is asking for the impossible or the Biblical camel passing through the eye of a needle. I also know that personal idiosyncrasies cannot be garbed in general conviction...

OPINION: BETWEEN EL RUFAI’S LIES AND THE “RESTRUCTURALISTS”‘ REALISM

In an interview granted Channels Television recently, El Rufai in his usual manner sounded rash, brash, saucy, arrogant, insolent and illogical while answering questions on the groundswell of agitations for a restructured Nigeria that has gained currency in our polity recently. He...

OPINION: TRIBUTE TO DR. EGWEMI 

Death is an end product of a lifetime for every human. It occurs anytime in the life of beings, just the way it took Associate Professor Victor Egwemi, who was the dean, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, IBB...

OPINION: APC CHAIRMAN’S COMMENT ON RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA VERY SAD

Today has been a bad day! It made me sad, so sad, very sad, sad indeed after stumbling upon the remark credited to Chief John Odigie Oyegun, the Chairman of Nigeria's governing party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) that...

OPINION: NORTHERN NIGERIA AND MORE OF HER MYTHICAL REALITIES

"When a people have suffered for too long, they will drink fairytales on fairylands with insatiable gullibility." (Hamilton Ayuk). I had written on the topic Northern Nigeria And Her Mythical Realities some four years ago. As with many things Nigerian,...

OPINION: QATAR AND THE GOLIATHS OF THE GULF

The Goliaths of the Gulf including power house, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates gave tiny Qatar thirteen demands which they know the latter cannot comply with.  Some of them, such as demanding Qatar pays compensation for...