Opinion

OPINION: GREED DRIVES LOCALLY MADE GOODS MORE EXPENSIVE

Dangote recently announced that he was going into rice production while promising to flood the market and bring prices down. Well, it is true that most promises made by businessmen in Nigeria in particular have not been fulfilled. Critics...

OPINION: ERDOGAN EXPLOITS ISLAM FOR PERSONAL AND POLITICAL GAIN

This is the third 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 and second articles are available...

OPINION: AS NIGERIA AWAITS RETURN OF PRESIDENT BUHARI…

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Some unpatriotic Nigerians who had expected a telegram of sorrow to trail the trip of President Muhammadu Buhari to London must by now be sulking and depressed on their failed expectations. By desperately wishing the President dead with daring...

OPINION: MEETING A MAN WHO FED STARVING BIAFRANS

One of the fortunes of my frequent travels is that I meet fascinating people at different locations, even when I have no inkling of the possibility of such encounters. In stops in such cities as Los Angeles, Abuja, San...

OPINION: MUCH ADO ABOUT BUHARI’S HEALTH

Of all human frailties, ill health of an individual whether a sitting president, governor or an ordinary citizen is usually unforeseen, and not within the control of the affected person. In the case of President Muhammadu Buhari, we are consoled...

OPINION: AGAIN, WHAT IS AFRICA’S PLACE UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP?     

“In the course of some 200 years, the presidency of the United   States has become the most powerful office in the world". "The duties and responsibilities of the office are immense. Unlike   many of the democratic government of Europe and...

OPINION: IS AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TRULY  ANTI-NIGERIA ?     

Across the world, Amnesty International releases several reports on   various  conflict situations that many considered subversive and   squared to de-legitimise state authorities. From Middle East to   several troubled spots, the body acts mostly as agents of anti-state   platforms. That...

OPINION: XENOPHOBIA: A DEADLIER APARTHEID IS HERE! 

In his first coming as military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari foresaw the possibility of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians who ‘check out’ in search of better life. That was the Buhari/Idiagbon administration he headed created the award-winning television...

OPINION: MATTERS ARISING: FGPL AND CHIDI DURU  

In the last decade a maze of corporate infractions in one of Nigeria’s pension fund administration – First Guarantee Pension Ltd (FGPL) and the various interlocutory injunctions and malfeasance carried out by the erstwhile vice chairman, his wife, siblings...

OPINION: OSINBAJO’S HOMILY  

Acting President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo is a born-again Christian of the Pentecostal hue.  He is a committed member of The Redeemed Christian Church of God (TRCCG) where he is an ordained pastor.  His pastoral duties...