Opinion

OPINION: GHANA’S LESSON TO AFRICA

Change has come to Ghana. Following after President Muhammadu Buhari, his fellow septuagenarian Nigerian counterpart, President Akufo-Addo has come to office on the back of campaign messaging centred on change. Judging by the electoral outcome, the NPP’s slogan of...

OPINION: DAMBAZAU AND NIGERIA’S INTERNAL SECURITY 

The internal peace and security of any nation is key to development and it is the bedrock against external assault. For any external aggression to succeed, the internal harmony and security must have to be overrun. That is why in...

OPINION: ON ECOMOG OPTION IN THE GAMBIA

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Since the political crisis in The Gambia stated last December with President Yahya Jammeh rejecting the result of the presidential election citing “irregularities”, there have been many suggestions as to how best to handle the issue. Some have called...

OPINION: CAGNACCI IN NEW YORK

Guido Cagnacci, whose contemporaries called “il genio bizzaro” (the bizarre genius), has by all accounts been slow in receiving the attention his work merits. Right now in New York City, three major works by the painter can been seen,...

OPINION: SULTAN LIED, GENDER EQUALITY BILL IS NOT ANTI-ISLAM

The recent call by the Sultan of Sokoto, His Eminence, Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar 111, on the Senate, not to pass the Gender Equality Bill because, according to him, the Bill is anti-Islam, is not only false, retrogressive, oppressive but...

OPINION: A TRIBUTE TO ENGR. KURE 

The distance between life an death is the legacy established in the undulating journey to accomplish our circle as members of the human family. When death occur and what is left is a mere cadaver fit only for the...

OPINION: NIGERIANS  NEED MORE, NOT LESS GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION

Nigerians need more government intervention, not less.  All modern development has been government-driven. Nigerians need their government to regulate and provide for their basic needs, not a deregulated society where greed is hailed as enterprise; the rich get richer...

OPINION: SARAKI AND THE MADE IN NIGERIA DÉFI

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose”- Lyndon  Johnson_ The word ''défi'' in French parlance means ''challenge.'' The distinguished Senate President Bukola Saraki, first threw the challenge last year, by initiating the move to amend...

OPINION: NIGERIANS, AND THE LOVE FOR THE DRAMATIC 

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed, and you can beat a fool half to death but you can't beat the foolishness out of him. African Proverb. I have said it countless times that...

OPINION: LOOKING BEYOND THE ARIK STAFF VIOLENT BEATING 

I have suffered countless schedule flight cancellations, lost money in cash and in kind. The cost of flight cancellation may not be quantified in terms of cash alone. Some people may never recover from one single flight cancellation. All...