Opinion

OPINION: MODU SHERIFF AND PDP LEADERSHIP TUSSLE

There seems to be no end in sight to the crisis that erupted in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since Ali Modu Sheriff, the...

OPINION: RESTRUCTURING LAW ENFORCEMENT & POLICING FOR A NEW NIGERIA

Globally, policing has been going through a transition since the start of the millennium. With diverse pressures and diverging expectations, financial paucity, the concept of...

OPINION: REMEMBERING ALI MAZRUI (II)

Obviously one cannot talk of the African without a prior conception of what Africa is all about. In the documentary, Africa: A Triple Heritage,...

OPINION: TAKING TURKEY BACK TO THE STONE AGE

One week ago, I wrote a piece, “LUNACY AND BLOODBATH IN TURKEY” It was my analysis of the Turkish government’s insane reaction to the...

OPINION: CELEBRATING GOVERNOR ROCHAS OKOROCHA

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State remains the most outstanding governor from the South East Nigeria, one the most vocal APC member from the...

RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA FOR GREATER NATIONAL INTEGRATION AND DEMOCRATIC STABILITY

Presented by Atiku Abubakar, GCON, former Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, at the Late Gen.Usman Katsina Memorial Conference, at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua...

OPINION: NIGERIAN MASSES AND THE BITING ECONOMY

The economic difficulties as currently experienced in the country have continued to hit harder on the Nigerians masses. This is obviously not the best...

OPINION: NIGERIA ELITE AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), a young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on...

OPINION: REMEMBERING ALI A MAZRUI (1)

How do you go about immortalizing a man whose works already immortalized him while he was alive? That was precisely what Twaweza Communications of...

OPINION: OKONJO-IWEALA AND CHEAP PUBLICITY

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”_ Benjamin Disraeli, one-time British Prime Minister. “When your success hovers from one person...