Opinion

OPINION: THE PERSECUTION OF OGBADU AND THE BURDEN OF REFORMS 

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

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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...

OPINION: FOOTBALLERS AS PATRIOTS 

As we struggle to untie the knots of discord and disunity in Nigeria, one group of Nigerians that we ought to look upon as models are the footballers from Nigeria plying their trade in different European leagues. Nigeria being one...

OPINION: CIVILIAN JTF AND THE AMERICAN OSTRICH

June is not a good month for the United States. Some of its number crunching mandarins confronted the country with the reality of the war on its doorsteps to which it has consistently feigned oblivion, playing the ostrich, with...