Opinion

OPINION: TRUMP AND NETANYAHU: EMBRACING ILLUSIONS, IGNORING REALITY

President Trump remained true to his customary flip-flopping on just about every issue when he stated during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu that he is “looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that...

OPINION: IKPEAZU AND HIS REFORMS

Since the inception of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu's administration on May 29, 2015, it has been rain of awards. The awards have come from religious groups and secular organistaions and these awards have greatly reflected the reforms the governor has...

OPINION: HOW PRESIDENT TRUMP’S TURBULENT 30 DAYS IN OFFICE MAY LEAD TO HIS IMPEACHMENT

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Every new President in the United States spends his first month in office getting to know and thank the people who elected him into office, talking (politely) to fellow world leaders, selecting his executive team, using the media to...

OPINION: WILL THE ‘ARAB SPRING’ EVER DRIFT SOUTHWARD? 

It is one of the ironies of life while people in comparatively affluent countries demand more accountability from their governments, the reverse has been the case in the backwaters of the world. Long before the peripatetic Tunisian grocery vendor,...

OPINION: ALFRED ILENRE; SARO-WIWA’S OTHER HALF, DEPARTS  

Alfred Ilenre was a name whispered in news rooms when I became a professional journalist in the early 1980s. He was one of the leading journalists in the country. Veteran Labour leader, playwright and patriot, Jonathan Ihonde was in 1965, ...

OPINION: GREEN SEGMENTS AND STRATEGIES: COMPANIES’ CALL TO CLIMATE ACTION ‎

As Nigeria and other countries of the world are making commitments to climate actions in line with climate change mitigation and adaptation ambitions, firms, institutions, and corporate bodies are not left out in this connection. It is time for...

OPINION: FULANI KILLER SQUADS, NIGERIA POLICE AND CHOCOLATE CITY 

Nigeria has returned to a familiar turf as a society in very deep distress thereby necessitating good Christians and Muslims to embark on wide ranging prayers and atonement sessions to solicit divine intervention. Only yesterday, the Catholic Church around the...

OPINION: I STAND WITH JAMES ONANEFE IBORI!

The corruption issue is one of the crafty strategies that the Caucasian imperialists have used to keep this country divided. Nigeria as the most populous black nation on earth is of strategic importance to the neo-colonialists and so it...

OPINION:  THE 2017 BUDGET PROCESS: CHANGE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION

Without doubt, the 2017 Appropriation Process has so far been without the several controversies that trailed the 2016 Process. This can be attributed to no less than the better rapport between the Presidency led by President Buhari and the...

OPINION: BUHARI’S PADDED HEALTH AND NEW SPOKESPERSONS

Like in the days of Yar’dua presidency and his ill-health drama when all groups of conspirators including the clergy came under the same banner to execute lies, we are now replaying a strategic yaradualisation of PMB’s health. The present...