Opinion

OPINION: PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, I BEG TO DISAGREE!

I have just read the preview of the excuses proffered by my leader, President Goodluck Jonathan, for losing the 2015 Presidential Election. I would not have bothered to react but for the fact that I had thought that he...

OPINION: IN DEFENCE OF TITILAYO MOMOH

On March 24, one Ms Taiwo Titilayo Momoh, attempted suicide at the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. Both the police and concerned citizens rescued her from killing herself.  The said Ms Momoh was arraigned on April 21, at the Ebute...

OPINION: HAS THE WAR ON CORRUPTION REALLY BEEN TOTAL?

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“I belong to everybody and I belong to nobody. A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores....

OPINION: THE GROWING PROBLEM OF UNTREATED DEMENTIA IN OUR ELDERS 

Just recently a picture of a half-naked elderly woman surrounded by a lynch mob appeared online in one of the many blogs under the caption:” Bird falls from sky and transforms into Woman”. Now it beggars belief that in this...

OPINION: THE NEXUS BETWEEN SOCIO-ECONOMIC WOES AND CULTURAL DEGENERATION 

The recent disrespect of Oonirisa, Oluaye, the Ooni of Ife, Kabiyesi Eniitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, by the Eleko of Eko, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has once again reopened the challenges the Yoruba Nation faces as it saunters around in search...

OPINION: UNIVERSITY AS DOMAIN OF SADDUCEES AND PHILISTINES 

The Covenant University, Sango Ota, is like most of the private universities established by religious missions, one of the costliest in the country. A former student, Mr. Vmamh Lonngji Felix who sued the university for wrongful expulsion, told  the...

OPINION: THE NECESSITY FOR ENHANCED PENSION CORRUPTION BATTLE UNDER PRESIDENT BUHARI

Last month, April 2017, the news was everywhere on how security agencies showed up at the premises of the Pension Commission, PENCOM, Headquarters. That this happened a little after the erstwhile Director General of the Commission, Mrs. Chinelo Anohu-Amazu,...

OPINION: NIGER DELTA INSTITUTIONS: WHERE ARE THE WHISTLEBLOWERS?

At the USAID Strengthening Advocacy and Civil Engagement, SACE, media public awareness workshop in Benin City recently, the plan was for organisers to bring CSOs and media together to up awareness and campaign strategies related to our projects. The...

OPINION: CENTRAL BANK, INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES AND CASH

Watchers and followers of American history would readily admit that one of the most enduring scandals of the Ronald Reagan Administration was the clandestine sale of arms to Iran, at the time a sworn enemy of the US, with...

OPINION: THERE IS STILL NO NIGERIA

The North-South Dichotomy is not a subject within the shores of this nation that one talks about without understanding, it evokes a lot of passions from the heated debates, and arguments which it generates, everyone holding dear to their...