Opinion

OPINION: WHY THE TWO SAMUELS ARE RARE SPECIES    

In faraway Geneva, Switzerland, in Western Europe, over ten dozen   top Chief Executive Officers of blue-chip Companies operating on the   Black African continent are about now rounding up their meeting with   the objective of uncovering the magic wand for...

OPINION: IBORI: CHRIS AKOR’S FANTASTICALLY RUMOUR-LADEN ARTICLE

The fantastically rumour – besotted Chris Akor, in “The face of a fantastically corrupt country” (Business Day of Wednesday February 15, 2017) embraced rumour and nothing but his beloved rumour. To worsen matters, he also lied when he wrote: ….“was...

OPINION: LET THE BRACED MEETINGS BEGIN

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Excellent news frittering in from the partisan side of town suggests that the BRACED Commission may soon be resuscitated. I read a Vanguard report on March 7, 2017, Finally, South-South governors bow to pressure, resume meeting soon that the...

OPINION: ILE IFE CRISIS: BETWEEN ETHNIC CONQUEST AND THE GLORIFICATION OF “YEYERITY”

The March 8, 2017, crisis in Ile Ife between the host Yoruba community and the settler Hausa community that led to the unfortunate loss of lives on both sides has further exposed the delicate nature of our union as...

OPINION: MUCH ADO ABOUT ALI’S UNIFORM

In recent times, Nigerians have been inundated with the refusal of the Senate to grant audience to Mr Hameed Ali, the Comptroller General of Customs based on the excuse that he was not wearing the official uniform. Meanwhile, the...

OPINION: WHO IS GOD?

Somebody once asked me who God was. Not that this person didn’t know who God was from his religious and biblical studies: he wanted me to explain to him in simple layman’s terms how great God is. We all know...

OPINION: A CITIZEN’S MAIL TO PRESIDENT BUHARI

I use this medium to congratulate you for resuming duty after your   return from the short sojourn to the United Kingdom for rest and medical   attention. Each day you were away was remembered with events that   recounted your high...

OPINION: MAGU: BUHARI’S ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT IS AT A CROSS ROADS, ANEEJ SAYS

BENIN CITY....The Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to rise and assert himself in the fight against corruption as signals emerging from the non-confirmation of the Acting Chairman of the Economic...

OPINION: REVISITING THE ORACLE: TURNER AT THE FRICK

J. M. W. Turner is one of those rare artists who seem always to be ahead of us – as with Shakespeare, he remains somehow ever beyond our reach. Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time is a...

OPINION: INEC AND ANAMBRA CENTRAL RERUN ELECTION     

The delayed Anambra Central senatorial rerun election has, no doubt,   become an issue of great concern to most discerning Nigerians, who   believe that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) no   longer has reason to continue to put the exercise...