Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: THE MASS MEDIA AND THE CURRENT FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA

Undoubtedly, corruption has been the bane of Nigeria development for decades now. Both the military and the civilian administrations in this country have not spared efforts to put this monster at bay. Efforts to rid the country of corruption have...

OPINION: THE APPALLING STATE OF NIGERIAN AIRPORTS

From the 8th of March the Nnamdi Azikwe International airport, in Abuja, Nigeria’s second busiest airport will close for approximately six weeks for repairs. It is to enable the authorities carry out essential maintenance work on the facilities and...

OPINION: CAN ISRAEL FIGHT A WAR ON THREE FRONTS? A NIGHTMARISH SCENARIO

Although Prime Minister Netanyahu is known for his focus on the Palestinian and Iranian threats to Israel’s national security, in recent months he has increasingly sounded the alarm over Iran in particular rather than the Palestinians. As the defeat...

OPINION: IMO NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION CRISIS: THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER

I read the show of shame that hit the newspaper publishers’ forum in Imo State last week.  And I was taken aback over certain issues that were said to have led to the ongoing crisis among members of the...