Opinion

OPINION: BUHARI DEATH RUMOR: WHO HAS BEWITCHED NIGERIANS?

The extent to which Nigerians have fragmented along ethno-religious components can only be measured in the direction of wish list drafted along unfortunate cleavage based perspectives. The nation is balkanized, serially polarized and dangerously fired up with hate agenda...

OPINION: TWO STORIES, ABOUT THE THOMAS’ AND WATCHMEN AROUND MR. BUHARI 

I want to this week talk about the men and women that are supposed to be helping Buhari. Many people say that followers are often a reflection of their leaders, however in Nigeria that is one axiom that isn’t...

TRUMP IS PISSED, CHINA IS PISSED AND NIGERIA IS TAKING THE PISS

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Friday the 20th of January 2017, President Donald J. Trump was officially recognised as the ruler of the free world. However you feel about him, like him or not, he must be respected and if not, feared. So I penned...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI AND 2017 PROPHECIES 

Prophecies, as normal, have been released by different people on the Nigerian state and President Muhammad Buhari. These are speculations and intellectual foresights. Psychologically, some guesswork can actually manifest. But these days, the prophecies by many people claiming supernatural...

OPINION: BREAK UP: CAN WE NOW GET SERIOUS?

As you read this, supporters of Nnamdi Kanu of IPOB and Ralph Uwazuruike of MASSOB remain in the trenches with live hand grenades at the steady. Their target, and this is strange, is not compatriots they regularly label as beasts....

Nielsen: 31 Million Viewers Saw Trump’s Swearing-In

Nielsen estimates 31 million viewers watched TV coverage of President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday. That audience total, measuring continuous coverage by 12 broadcast and cable networks, soundly beat the 20.6 million who viewed President Barack Obama's second inauguration in...

OPINION: TWENTY YEARS OF HUMANISM IN NIGERIA     

The Nigerian Humanist Movement (NHM) was founded in 1996 and the main   goal was to provide an alternative to religion and a sense of community   to non-religious and non-theistic persons. This was a period when the   country was under...

OPINION: STUPID $15M BRIBERY ALLEGATION AGAINST IBORI: CONTRADICTIONS GALORE IN EFCC, OBASANJO’S STATEMENTS

The former Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu,  has travelled the world just to dress himself in borrowed  and sanctimonious plumes; that he rejected a $15m bribe from Chief James Onanefe  Ibori. Yet, former President Olusegun...

OPINION: BUHARI’S INEC, THE SILENT COUP PLOTTERS AND THE GAMBIAN PRECEDENT

On December 1, 2016, Gambian eligible voters went to the polls to elect their leader thus ending the long reign of their longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh who initially conceded defeat. Barely a week after, Jammeh in a nationwide broadcast...

OPINION: THE SHORTCOMINGS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR PEACE

The conference for peace between Israel and the Palestinians initiated by the French government that took place on January 15 in Paris was positive in many ways. The concluding declaration that collectively emerged pointed out the need to establish...