Opinion

OPINION: PDP, IZE-IYAMU’S PETITION DEAD ON ARRIVAL 

Earthquakes are never delightful to their victims, and People’s Democratic Party (PDP) may soon be the latest witness to this tragic truth. I do not refer here to that natural phenomenon caused by tectonic plates’ interactions with one another....

OPINION: INVISIBILITY OF ATHEISM: EXPLORING THE PHENOMENON OF WORLDLY RELIGION IN AFRICA 

Atheism is a term that is not often associated with Africa and Africans. Studies have rather linked both ancient and modern Africa to religion and theism. The overwhelming impression is that Africans are hard-wired to mystical thinking and magic. In...

OPINION: AHMAD ISAH AND HIS BEREKETE FAMILY 

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OPINION: WHY IT IS IN INDIA’S INTEREST TO FIGHT AFROPHOBIA

The recent racist attack against some Nigerians in India has once again opened up important conversations about xenophobia and racism in Ghandi’s country as the country strives to play more important roles in global affairs with its increasing economic...

OPINION: ANCHORS BORROWERS’ PROGRAMME: OPEN LETTER TO SOUTHWEST GOVERNORS

Nigerians, by now, should be sufficiently convinced that the economic recession gripping their country for some months is a blessing in disguise. If anything, the recession has re-invented the worldview of the governments both at the federal and state...

OPINION: CONCERNING DIVINITY AND OBASEKI’S INHERITED ORACLE 

“The Oracle has spoken. Let us go home for our fate has been sealed and there is nothing to negotiate”. The quote above indicates the finality of fate, or an arbitrary verdict suggesting that a decision has been pronounced on...

OPINION: HOW DEMONIC AND SATANIC FORCES HAVE HELD NIGERIA HOSTAGE FOR 24 YEARS 

I was shocked to the marrows when I heard that some APC Senators asked the National Working Committee of the Party led by the National Chairman of the Party Chief Odigie Oyegun to prevail on President Buhari to drop...

OPINION: FINANCE MINISTER: YOU ARE HURTING THE ECONOMY

In December 2016 I wrote about the Finance Minister’s public statements that are inimical to the health of the economy and some few individuals felt I was too hard on the woman. Then she had without facts named 33...

OPINION: EMEFIELE’S SUPPORT FOR THE NAIRA IS WORKING

“The fact that we have done this consistently for almost four to five weeks should tell everybody or those who doubt the strength of central bank to sustain this policy that they are taking a risk and they will...

OPINION: THE LOOMING END TO THE WESTERN-TURKISH ALLIANCE

The growing tension between Turkey and its Western allies, which was further heightened during the Obama administration, is narrowing the space for cooperation between the two sides and in fact is progressively worsening. Erdogan’s hope that he and President...