Opinion

OPINION: USING BUHARI AILMENT TO STIR UP ETHNO-RELIGIOUS GENOCIDE    

There is a piece circulating on the cyberspace titled; “President   Muhammadu Buhari the Strongest man in Africa”. The author of the   drivel alleged albeit tacitly how President Muhammadu Buhari has been   poisoned with a category ‘A poison’. The writer...

OPINION: DAME PATRICIA ANENIH: A MATRIARCH IN WHOM HUMANITY LIVED

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” -Thomas Campbell The title of the newspaper advertisement, announcing the funeral of the first wife of former Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief...

OPINION: LET’S REBUILD THIS HOUSE!

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Nigeria is going through a rather rough patch of time.  At the heart of the country’s current political challenges is the ill-health of President Muhammadu Buhari, a fact which seems to have emboldened self-serving sections of the political class,...

OPINION: TO STOP RAPE TAKE ACTION; NOT NOISE

As far back as three decades ago, my Father Mazi Cyprian Osonduagwuike Okorieocha Onwubiko gave me a little bit of civic education laced massively with philosophy and logic. He narrated to me what he considered as the shortfall and deliberate...

OPINION: SACRIFICING PRESIDENT BUHARI IS TOO HIGH A PRICE TO PAY FOR NORTHERN HEGEMONY

President Muhammadu Buhari is seek. Very sick. Of this there can be no doubt or doubters. His importance to those who want power to remain in the north, cannot be over stated. That they brought it to themselves is...

OPINION: TRUMP’S ‘HISTORIC’ VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

Sadly, President Trump’s visit to the Middle East only confirmed my skepticism about what might come out of it. Trump went to the region with nothing to offer to mitigate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and received no commitment from either...

OPINION: NIGERIA: WHY A MILITARY COUP IS UNLIKELY

Many Nigerians have been expressing understandable outrage at suggestions that there might be military coup in the country.  It is obvious that despite the current challenges, most Nigerians who were old enough to know what happened during the long...

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     

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...