Opinion

OPINION: UNMASKING NASIR EL-RUFAI

Nobody should be carried away by the ratings of an ingrate and opportunist like Nasir el Rufai. He never said it was wrong when he was asked to pay money before he was cleared by the Senate as a...

OPINION: APC: THIS HOUSE MUST BE ONE     

I have no Shred of doubt that the leadership of APC is getting it right  at both the States and at the Federal level even though many will think  otherwise. I have implicit confidence in the leadership of President ...

OPINION: ATIKU: THE SPECTACLES AND TENTACLES OF AN ENIGMATIC STATESMAN @ 70

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In all of my life's endeavours nothing good has ever come to me easily, and the pattern has become second nature to me. - Atiku Abubakar As the world wakes up from the most rattling, or rather baffling, presidential election...

OPINION: WE CAN BUILD A NEW AFRICA, NOT ANOTHER EUROPE

Africa panics when there are changes in world politics or policies; from  Brexit to the Trump triumph.  A primary reason is, we mirror ourselves  in the image of others and accept their development model. But we can  only be...

OPINION: FIGHTING CORRUPTION AND ECONOMIC RECESSION

The current economic crisis, an exposé on the predicted disabilities and inhuman dispositions of neo liberal policies, especially its role in developing economies just as it is in all sectors, seem to be one that will ignite, if it...

OPINION: PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP DESERVES HIS DUES

Surprise, surprise President-Elect Trump appointed former Breitbart News Network executive chairman Stephen Bannon that denied being a white nationalist but a nationalist as strategic counselor. Senator Jeff Session as AG, an anti-immigrant that couldn’t be confirmed as Federal judge...

OPINION: EXTERNAL LOANS AND NEED FOR GROWTH IN AGRICULTURE, POWER, INFRASTRUCTURE, OTHERS

Smugglers of food items, most especially rice, have been having sleepless nights in Nigeria. From indications, the conscious plans by the Federal Government to crash the price of rice and wheat by the end of the year is threatening...

OPINION: BUHARI’S RAPPROCHEMENT WITH SOUTH-EAST SENATORS

From the recent meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and some senators from the South East region, it is obvious that the Nigeria’s leader initial promise to be fair to all sections of the country has come into fruition. It...

OPINION: ECHOES FROM  THE LAGOON: THE STORY OF RASHEED GBADAMOSI

I have tried to write the story of Chief Rasheed Abiodun Gbadamosi  a  number of times  in the last fourteen years. But it had been a  gargantuan task I have postponed a number of times, and circumstances  had postponed...

OPINION: NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT IS SUPPRESSING AND PERSECUTING BIAFRANS AND BIAFRAN  INDEPENDENCE AGITATION WORLDWIDE   

At the end of the Biafran War many experts came to the conclusion that  genocide had been committed against the Igbo by the Nigerian government.  In an effort to suppress the scandal, the Nigerian government with some  help from...