Opinion

OPINION: CAN NORTHERN NIGERIA BE HOME TO ALL?

The late Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sardaunan Sokoto and first premier of the   defunct Northern Region will turn in his grave at the damage his   descendants have done to his legacy in the region he once presided over.   Serial killings,...

OPINION: EFCC: COMEDY OF DISCOVERIES AND BASTARDISATION OF THE ANTI-CORRUPTION WAR

Ever since the whistle blowing policy of the federal government was announced in December of 2016, there has been a frenzy of activities in the anti-corruption sector of the economy. While many have been excited by these activities, others...

OPINION:  THE TRIUMPH OF IDEAS

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The China I returned from a fortnight ago, is a bullet train rifling   through the universe towards unprecedented development. The Africans had   through Egypt and Nubia, evolved and built the foundations of modern   civilization. The Greeks who studied in...

OPINION: EKITI 2018: WHO SHALL THE PROGRESSIVES SEND?

“Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, “Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?” Isaiah 6:8 Yours faithfully was in the midst of some non-Ekiti friends recently.   They were very sympathetic with the course of...

OPINION: MAGU’S EFCC, LOOT DISCOVERY AND DECEIT     

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) led by Mr. Ibrahim   Magu is engaged in a game. And it is a game of deceit. It is a game of   duplicity. It is a game of treachery against the people...

OPINION: IKOYI $43M: AMAECHI, THE JUDAS OF UBIMA, NEEDS URGENT CURE     

The desperation with which the redundant Minister of Transportation,   Rotimi Amaechi, is seeking cheap attention through one of his diarrheic   aides of inconsequential stature, is quite troubling to lovers of   humanity. It is obviously a sign of desperate need...

OPINION: THE FORTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS LOST & FOUND IS MINE

Where else can one hide his money from armed robbers? It is unfortunate that we cannot put money in the bank, at the farm, in the freezer, in a sewage tank and inside our house anymore; without some busy...

OPINION: THE NORTHERN STATUS QUO’S PROBLEM WITH EMIR SANUSI

There are reasons Emir of Kano, Nigeria, Muhammad Sanusi İİ finds himself densed in the current orchestrated campaign of calumny against him. And as usual, as the hidden hands behind northern problems and Emir Sanusi's  decampaign know the truth,...

OPINION: OBASANJO’S CORRUPTION NARRATIVES

Obasanjo’s recent treatise on corruption in Nigeria is a must-read for policymakers because it  essentially bought into what several academics and public intellectuals have been saying over the years about the endemic ‘war against corruption’ in the country. In a...

OPINION: EL-RUFAI, DOGARA: DISMANTLING THE CULTURE OF SILENCE

He never planned for public office. It was, perhaps, at the point of digging in his feet in the world of business that he was, on the recommendation of former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, accidentally brought into government.  Malam Nasir...