Opinion

OPINION: EFCC VS JONATHAN: TIME TO LEAVE PATIENCE ALONE 

Injustice to one is injustice to all, anywhere in the world. I have chosen this abridgement from a text of a press briefing issued on this same subject Tuesday in Abuja on the platform of the Coalition of Concerned Nigeria Political...

OPINION: SIKIRU AYINDE BARRISTER; 6 YEARS AFTER, AND THE MUSIC LIVES ON

16th Day of December, 2016 marks the 6th anniversary of the demise of the Fuji music exponent and pioneer, Aare (Dr.) Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, MFR. In spite of the huge contribution of barrister to popular music and traditional culture,...

OPINION: TRUMP, BUHARI AND THE CRUDE ART OF WOBBLING AND FUMBLING

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On November 8, 2016 Americans elected Donald Trump as their 45th president. By the time you’re reading this, Mr. Trump would have named all his nominees for leadership of various government departments. The president-elect, who will be inaugurated on...

OPINION: PMB AT 74: PEACE SHUTTLE IN BIRTHDAY WEEK

What a helluva week for a man who turns 74 today. In one day, in his birthday week, he flew from Abuja to Monrovia, from there to Freetown, and then to Banjul, in The Gambia. He held meetings lasting...

OPINION: ANEBI – DRIVING THE WIND OF CHANGE

It was Leon Batista Alberti who once said, “A man can do all things if he but wills them”. There is also a saying that some were born great, some have greatness thrust upon them”. Engr. Garba Joseph Anebi...

OPINION: AFRICA MOST AFFECTED BY REFUGEE CRISIS

Ethiopia and Uganda praised for open-door policy As Germany, France and other European countries contend with an unprecedented influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, shocking tales of women and children drowning in the Mediterranean Sea are repeated...

OPINION: THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Although Christians have lived in the Middle East – the birthplace of Christianity – for nearly two thousand years, as a result of years of persecution and discrimination, especially in the past 15 years, they now constitute no more...

OPINION: AJIMOBI: THE TRAJECTORY OF AN ENIGMA @ 67

Celebrating ones existence on earth is not by the total number of chronological years, but to really showcase what the person has been able to do to affect the lives of people around or close to him positively. There...

OPINION: ARIK AIR GOES UNDER IN NIGERIA

I got information that my leader, Mentor and the servant Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will return to Nigeria yesterday after weeks of vacation and business trip abroad. I was to be at Abuja international Airport around 8- 8:30pm  to...

OPINION: UDOM: RISING TO THE OCCASION OF LEADERSHIP 

Leadership is a complex art that requires unique skills. The manifestations of its deposit in any individual are usually tested at periods of challenges. The tragic incident of the collapse of Reigners Bible Church International during the planned Bishopric...