Opinion

OPINION: POLITICAL SUICIDE AND DESPERATIONS IN OBVIOUS QUARTERS

They have killed him several times, yet he refused to die. They have told us he would never win, yet he won. They said that, by this time in his presidency, all Nigerians would have become Muslims. To actualize...

OPINION: GREATER TOGETHER THAN APART BY ACTING PRESIDENT OSINBAJO

Being the text of the Speech of His Excellency, Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, at The Colloquim On Biafra: 50 Years After, organised by Yar' Adua Foundation on 25th May, 2017 The conveners of this event, the Yar' Adua Memorial...

OPINION: UNEMPLOYMENT AND EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION, THE MAJOR CAUSES OF CRIME     

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A United Nations, UN, report on Nigeria’s Common Country Analysis, CCA, in 2016 revealed that Nigeria is one of the poorest countries in the world with over 80 million or 64% of her population living below poverty line The situation...

OPINION: REMINDERS FOR MUSLIMS ON 1438/2017 RAMADAN 

Here is Ramadan again, the month that true believers strive to acquire as much as possible rewards with the best of their physical and spiritual abilities. Ramadan is not a month of sloth and wickedness. It is the month...

OPINION: MY LAGOS, MY STORY 

In 1971, after my primary school education, poverty drove me to Lagos to find something to do to help my poor mother and siblings. Civil War devastated my father’s thriving business in Onitsha and we all suffered from 1966...

OPINION: AFRICA HAS NEVER DICTATED PRICE OF ITS PRODUCTS SINCE 1972

How can African countries prosper when prices of its human and natural resources are dictated by aliens? 1972 was the last time Arab oil embargo helped Africans call their price. Before that Kwame Nkrumah made effort to cartel cocoa...

OPINION: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF TRUMP’S VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA

It is no longer news that US President Donald Trump has arrived in Saudi Arabia on the first leg of his first foreign trip since becoming US President, what is news is what are the drivable benefit of his...

OPINION: HOW GOVERNMENT UNDERMINES TRADO – INSTITUTIONS 

For the better part of the last two decades, at my free times, I have read researched articles on a very intriguing term known as consociational democracy. The term consociational democracy is seen as the form of democratic governance system...

OPINION: A STAND THAT RESCUED THE CAPTIVES

It was 1990. A bloody  coup attempt had taken place on April 22. At a point, nineteen journalists were detained in connection with the coup but after negotiations with the  Chief Intelligence Officer of the Babangida regime, Brigadier General...

OPINION: BUILDING A NATION THAT WORKS: MY DIARY AND WAY FORWARD

The reality is that our nation does not work well whether we focus on security, education, economic production, employment generation and people’s welfare or we focus on governance and politics or the relationships among our diverse ethnic, regional, and...