Opinion

OPINION: BUHARI, PATIENCE JONATHAN, AND THERESA MAY

On January 21, I was having drinks and talking literature with some friends at 805 Restaurant in old Kent Road, London when my phone rang. The caller was a friend resident in Sweden. “Is it true that President Buhari died?”...

OPINION: IN SEARCH OF AN IGBO PRESIDENT FOR NIGERIA

Former President Obasanjo while hosting the leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Ogun state chapter led by Bishop Tunde-Akin Akinsanya at his Hilltop residence in Abeokuta, threw weight behind a possible Igbo President for 2019. He proclaimed:...

OPINION: THE BEGINNING OF THE START 

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For  a people without qualms about being addicted to imported toothpick and foreign bottled water I am totally not surprised by Nigerians weeping more than the bereaved about the (Donald) Trump presidency in the United States. Trump's executive orders,...

OPINION: IF I WERE GOD 

If I were God and people asked me why I created Nigeria I’ll say I created it for a reason. I promised to lead the Israelites to a land of Milk and Honey and I did . Nigeria is...

OPINION: LAGOS AND THE OPEN GRAVES NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT

As a dewy-eyed boy growing up in the tranquil town of Ile-Ife, Osun state, I felt nothing but pity for the people who have willfully subjected themselves to the throes of living in a big city like Lagos when...

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

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...