Opinion

OPINION: DRESSING MRS. BUHARI IN MRS. JONATHAN’S GARB IS FUTILE. IT WON’T  FIT 

I feel very sorry for those who are making a great deal of effort at tainting everyone around the President. It's a case of, "We are filthy and rotten, we must wrestle you till some of our filth rub...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S BROKEN JUDICIAL SYSTEM

Nigeria’s judiciary has opened her doors for the New Year 2017 with a very controversial case in Abuja which has to do with the unconstitutional secret trial of Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, the Director of the Radio Biafra, a United...

OPINION: TAMBUWAL AT 51: INDELIBLE MARKS ON THE SEAT OF THE CALIPHATE 

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If he were to be asked his birthday wish this day in 2015, the then Sokoto State gubernatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rt. Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, would have probably prayed for success in the elections...

OPINION: BEFORE ABUJA AIRPORT IS SHUT DOWN

A few years ago, the Federal Government of Nigeria shut down the Port Harcourt International Airport to carry out what they called repairs or was it renovation? It was supposed to be an exercise for a few weeks, but...

OPINION: THINKING WITH YOU… THE YEAR AHEAD IN NIGERIA

A new year brings an opportunity to look ahead. So, as 2017 dawns, Nigerians should cast a look at the journey ahead. To be sure, Nigerians have been squeezed by the economy. As the morality of our nation changed...

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

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...