Opinion

OPINION: ERDOGAN: A CLASSIC CASE OF HOW POWER CORRUPTS

This is the second 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 article is available here. Much has...

OPINION: POLITICIANS BEHIND THE PULPITS

One of the greatest creations or inventions of man that has endured over the centuries is the institution of religion. This modest human invention (an attempt to understand God) is arguably also posing a great threat to man’s existence...

OPINION: DONALD TRUMP AND THE MUSLIM WORLD

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I am not a fan of Donald Trump, the incumbent President of the United States. I didn’t stand with him. I stood with her- Hillary Clinton- in the last US Presidential election. No other election in recent American history...

OPINION: THE NEED TO RE-ENGINEEER THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTERNALLY-GENERATED REVENUE COLLECTION PROCESS IN ABIA STATE

Several revenue opportunities are open to the local government councils. They are  collection of rates; radio and television licenses; licensing of bicycles, trucks, wheel barrows;registration of births, deaths  and marriages; establishment and maintenance of recreational facilities; and regulation of...

OPINION: PRESIDENT TRUMP’S MORAL HARM

During President Trump’s first full week in office he has begun to dismantle America’s moral standing on the international stage. From his reconsideration of CIA ‘black sites’ to his insistence on vast voter fraud, to his inhumane ban on...

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO GOV. SAMUEL IORAER (NYI) ORTOM

(FOCUS ON GOVERNANCE; NOT SUSWAM: 2019 IS ON THE HORIZON)! Your Excellency, Sir, good morning. Since you are a digital governor, one who dutifully makes out time to surf the net despite your busy schedule, I am using this medium to...

OPINION: AN INTERROGATION OF THE BRITISH INTELLIGENCE RECORDS ON THE JANUARY 15 1966 COUP 

The three-part series on the revelations from the British intelligence reports on the January 15 1966 coup that ran in ‘The NEWS’ magazine from June to August 2016 is illuminating. Damola Awoyokun who anchored the series focused the searchlight...

OPINION: AS DAURA TACKLES SULEIMAN OVER FULANI INTEREST 

Last week the sultan of Sokoto made a call for the arrest of Pastor Suleiman Johnson of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide for allegedly asking Christians to take self-defensive measures to protect their precious lives from being taken away...

OPINION: CHRIS AKOR’S FANTASTIC LIES AGAINST IBORI : SEPARATING FACTS FROM FICTION

Some of us suffer the malaise of not being able to decouple our personal ego from our jobs or functions and as such, more often than not, our ego gets in the way and we become feisty. The reality is...

OPINION: SWIMMING WITH THE NIGERIAN MARITIME UNIVERSITY     

Never have I come across an institution that has fought so hard to be   born, like the Nigerian Maritime University (NMU) Okerenkoko.  It was   conceived by the Jonathan administration along with eight other   universities. But while others like the...