Opinion

OPINION: CHILDREN OF ANGER ABANDON THEIR PARENTS

What has always distinguished the children of the rich from those of the poor is the special affection most children of the poor have for their parents. They grow up pledging to buy their parents a house and a...

OPINION: IWD 2017: REMEMBERING PATIENCE  

International Women’s Day is a day set aside by the United Nations to  highlight achievements of the womenfolk, as well as commemorate their  struggles for basic rights. I always chose a day like this to pay  tribute to women...

OPINION: KADUNA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR AND MATTERS ARISING

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The just concluded 2017 Kaduna International Trade Fair has come and  gone, but the dust it has raised may remain in the horizon for a very  long time to come. The 2017 trade fair may pass as the worst in...

OPINION: PDP, OBASANJO AND HUBRIS

Let me state from the outset that I am not a card-carrying member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but I have sympathy for the party for some personal reasons. With that kind of sympathetic or empathic mindset, it becomes...

OPINION: ERDOGAN: THE SULTAN OF AN ILLUSIONARY OTTOMAN EMPIRE

This is the fourth and last in a series of articles based in part on eyewitness accounts about the rapidly deteriorating socio-political conditions in Turkey and what the future may hold for the country. The first, second and third...

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 

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...