Opinion

OPINION: IBRAHIM DANKWAMBO’S GOMBE AS THE MIRACLE OF THE SAVANNAH (PART 2)

In addition, the State’s irrigation farming project located at Mangoro Kaba in the Garu District of Nafada Local Government Area, a border and remote village between Gombe and Yobe States, is a copious testimony to Dankwambo’s commitment to agriculture...

OPINION: THE LAST ROAD TO GOLGOTHA! 

As well as being a lucky man, former Nigerian president, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, is truly an incredible character! Here’s a man whose political profile received a boost after he caught the attention of his estranged benefactor and former president,...

OPINION: OBASANJO: NIGERIA’S BEST AND WORST @80 

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No trumpet was blown when a child was born to illiterate and poor parents from the backwoods of Ibogun-Olaogun in Ogun State on March 05, 1937. There was nothing to reveal that this young child, whose later dream was...

OPINION: 1-POINT AGENDA FOR NEW CJN 

Today, being March 7th, 2017, the Nigerian judiciary has received the fresh head in the person of Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen who was sworn in by the acting president and ironically a professor of law, Mr. Yemi Osinbajo, a...

OPINION: THE MAN WHO SAT ON THE TOR TIV’S THRONE

This is about Stephen Nyitse, the young man who on the day of the coronation of the new Tor Tiv managed to beat security and went straight to where the king’s coronation seat, stool, throne had been placed and...

OPINION: OF A TRAGIC NATION AND PRODIGAL LEADERSHIP

Nigeria’s leadership, at every crossroads of our political history, has been largely underwhelming in the task of nation-building and provision of sophisticated infrastructure.  Ours is a tragic nation, bogged down by the prodigality of our leaders.  The best that leadership offers...

OPINION: INDIAN GARRI, PLASTIC RICE AND BRAZILIAN HAIR  

Many Nigerians are angry. They discovered  that their prized  garri,   the cassava flakes staple food they  assume proprietorial ownership   over, is being imported from India! The outrage seems justified as we   produce eighty percent of world cassava (Manihot Esculenta) ...

OPINION: IBRAHIM DANKWAMBO’S GOMBE AS THE MIRACLE OF THE SAVANNAH (PART 1)  

Gombe State as one of the States in the country that has had its own   fair share of insurgency, has before now, been in the news for   unpleasant reasons as a result of the activities of insurgents. This   situation...

OPINION: HOW NIGERIA CREATED THE INSECURITY IN OGONILAND AND HOW TO DEAL WITH IT

The disharmony between Nigeria and the Ogoni people over oil may be a   familiar terrain, the recent and heightened security situation in Ogoni   may no longer be news. But what may not be well known is how the   Nigerian...

OPINION: TRUMPISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM

The United States is witnessing a disturbing rise in anti-Semitic acts, which are sweeping over the country in wave after wave. In St. Louis, more than a hundred tombstones were tipped over; similar hate crimes have taken place in...