Opinion

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! 

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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...

OPINION: TERRITORIES, TERRITORIAL SPIRITS AND SPIRITUAL WARFARE

The chances are that most people already know that for political and administrative purposes, the entire world is divided into continents while continents are further sub-divided into countries. Furthermore, countries are divided into regions or states. Again, regions and...

OPINION: THE NIGERIA-PRAYS-FOR-BUHARI COMPETITION

After the publication of my column last week, titled “I want to go to London… to see Buhari”, I received a lot of feedback from persons who were either amused or dead serious that they had been overlooked in...

OPINION: OSINBAJO AND THE CONSPIRACY OF NINE FINGERS…   

"Our wife, our wife": come midnight and we will know whose wife she   really is. Did you hear..."Osinbajo is very presidential, he has action" (Really) Some people said, "He should not deviate from Buhari's policies" (But   why should he) Did you see Osinbajo's wife...

OPINION: DEVELOPMENTAL JOURNALISM AND OPEN GOVERNANCE

During the past week, I had the privilege of playing host to a German journalist. Some years back, I was in their country on scholarship on journalism training and something of the German effect began to rub off on...

OPINION: UN, REGIONAL FORCES AND THE NEED TO SAVE HUMANITY 

Terrorism is man’s new evil with the capability for self-extinction to mankind. It is crude, barbaric, cruel and inhuman. God Almighty frowns at it. Humanity has cursed it. Nations and countries of the world are fighting it to a...