Opinion

OPINION: THE DISUNITY OF ISRAEL’S OPPOSITION PARTIES IS SERVING THE OCCUPATION

Israel will soon reach on June 5th the grim milestone of fifty years of occupation of the West Bank. Many Israelis have become complacent and succumbed to the government’s argument that the continuing occupation is necessary to safeguard Israel’s national security....

OPINION: THE IJESHA OBA OF LAGOS AND HIS CONFUSED HISTORY OF LAGOS

A purported statement from the palace of Oba of Lagos stated that Eko (Lagos Island) is not part of Yoruba land. Part of that statement read: “Oba Ado fell in-love with a beautiful woman whose father was Awori and mother...

OPINION: LET NASS PASS ANTI-GRAFT BILLS TO REDUCE CORRUPTION

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Several monies worth over two $225m have been recovered by the federal government through the whistle blowers’ policy. And this is within the space of four months. Some of these monies were banked under guise, using fake identities, while...

OPINION: SOUTH EAST AND VOTER’S REGISTRATION 

The ongoing exercise of enlisting validly qualified Nigerians as prospective voters in the national data by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) must be implemented with all sense of decency and patriotism. This is because of the primacy of the...

OPINION: ASIWAJU TINUBU: BETWEEN POLI-TRICKS AND POWER  

Asiwaju Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really the odious, typical Nigerian politician. All is fair,  if it is fair with him and his clan of Western  sycophants and elsewhere. Everything must be rubbish and messy, anytime he misses his...

OPINION: SALIENT ISSUES IN HOUSTON LAUNCHING OF BAYELSA/OLOIBIRI ROUNDTABLE 

The recently concluded Oil and Gas Trade Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas, United States of America was an exciting engagement with industry tradition of regularly reviewing and enhancing operational standards and development. For the Nigerian delegation consisting of the...

OPINION: THE COURAGE TO STAND UP

In its first thirty nine years as an independent country, military dictators ruled Nigeria for twenty nine years. They were years when the country was almost drowned in rivers of blood including a three-year Civil War which  claimed over...

OPINION: THE 82 CHIBOK GIRLS AND OTHER STORIES

“E ku amojuba awon 82 Chibok girls, o” “What is that supposed to mean in plain English? You better watch your tongue. It will be politically incorrect and suicidal to start making a joke out of something that serious.” “Where is...

OPINION: IKPEAZU: A MANDATE ORDAINED BY GOD 

“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men...

OPINION: WHILE MEN SLEPT, OKONJO-IWEALA BUILT INSTITUTIONS 

In January of this year, there was a lot of talk about the ghostworkers syndrome in the country with some very heavy, almost depressing, figures reeled out detailing how much the government had lost paying salaries to phantom employees....