Opinion

OPINION: CSOs PLANNING CANTICLES AGAINST CORRUPTION

For the past week, I would say that I have been busy. I remember a couple of years ago when I exchanged letters with my former boss. When he asked how I was faring, I remember that I told...

OPINION: SAVING YOUTHS FROM THE PROBLEMATIC JAMB 

Never in the history of the country has a major examination body set a date for national examinations and been incapable of even producing the examination questions, not to talk about the examinations holding. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation...

OPINION: SENATE MEDIA TRIAL OF BABACHAIR DAVID LAWAL AND THE HYPOCRISY OF NIGERIAN ELITE

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The world INDICTMENT can only have effect if it is confirmed by court of competent jurisdiction. This was the view of Supreme Court of Nigeria in Atiku Vs INEC in 2007. For some time now, some hypocritical elite have...

OPINION: ABRACADABRA! BEHOLD, THE SCAMMER AND THE SCAMMED

Nigerians are horrified, and rightly so, for what passes for corruption in today's Nigeria. It's important to keep the horror of our corrupt nation up front, to keep highlighting the lies and stealing that have become the trade mark...

OPINION: PRESERVING THE MAJESTY OF THE DSS

I have, over the years, held the State Security Service (SSS) otherwise known as the Department of State Services (DSS) in reverential awe for its yeoman job, which has the citizenry as the focus of its security architecture.  Talking about...

OPINION: EMIR SANUSI AND HIS POOR UNDERSTANDING OF NORTHERN NIGERIA

I was certainly not caught by surprise when I read that Emir Sanusi in  his key note address during the opening ceremony of Kaduna State  investment programme said that the Northern Nigeria will be the poorest  if the country...

OPINION: NIGERIA THE ONLY COUNTRY WHERE DOLLARS SPEAK NATIVE DIALECT

The recent whistle blower on the Ikoyi, Lagos state dollar find may be one of the unlucky participant in the gainful employ of whistle blowing business in Nigeria. The person must have watched with absolute excitement when the Economic...

OPINION: IF MENINGITIS WERE GOD’S PUNISHMENT

As an advocate of humanity, I have pleaded with God to ignore the proclamations of the inpatient, inhuman and un-Godly of His created mankind. Mankind see themselves so free that they can say anything and ascribe it to God...

OPINION: NIGERIAN CHILDREN, NIGERIA’S FUTURE

"It is 9 o'clock, do you know where your children are?" Frank Olizeh,  popular retired NTA anchorman  I originally wrote this some four years ago under the title; That  Nigerian Child...Of Ours, today I am updating it. It's Easter, and a...

OPINION: SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT FOR ETCHE

As at May 29, 2015 when the good people of Rivers State rightly expelled   the All Progressives Congress  (APC) from Government, the people of   Etche Ethnic Nationality were one of the most neglected communities.   They were denied developmental projects,...