Opinion

OPINION: RENO: BETWEEN HAGIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY

Reno Omokiri, has, apparently become desperately enamoured in making his former boss, Dr Goodluck Jonathan look good in the eye of the Nigerian public. Well, perhaps, we should submit from observed inclination of his writings which tend more to...

OPINION: MOVING AGAINST LAND ROBBERS IN OGUN

An insurance executive in Lagos who sought to relocate to Ota, Ogun and probably bring along foreign partners for a new firm was held back by reports of the violent activities of land speculators. He gathered that these land...

OPINION: TILL DEBT DO US APART

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The recent request from President Buhari for legislative authorization for an external borrowing of almost $30bn is a sharp reminder that history truly moves in circles and that human memories are short.  It should be recalled that Africa’s debt...

OPINION: THE 2ND COMING OF GEJ? PERISH THE IDEA

The article with the above caption written by Chief Dele Momodu is a good study on the wilful capitulation of a typical Nigerian columnist fired by an instinct for survival. At a time Nigeria is battling with recession, writers...

OPINION: CELEBRATING ATIKU, A COLOSSUS, AT 70

I first met Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, GCON, Turakin Adamawa and former Vice President of Nigeria, in 1994 at his former residence on Lekki Taba Street, Jimeta, Yola, Adamawa state. He was then a delegate to the Constitutional Conference convened...

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

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...