Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: NIGERIA ON THE BRINK OF ANOTHER TERRORISM IN SHIITES

“As followers of Sheik Ibraheem  El-Zakzaky, we shall never submit ourselves to the dictates of the Nigerian government even if our own lives will be taken away by the forces of its security agents.” Sheik Sanusi Abdulkadir Koki, IMN’s...

OPINION: USE GMO FOR ELECTRICITY AND GAS NOT FOOD

In my days in secondary school, one of my best subjects was integrated science. That subject had Biology, Physics and Chemistry all fused in one even though we didn’t know it then. I developed an unusual interest on one...

OPINION: TINUBU AND AMBUSHED POLITICAL AMBITIONS   

Self-styled national leader of the ruling APC, Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu  is in the political wilderness. For a politician of his status, whose  passion for power is unsurpassed and believes in the kingmaker syndrome,  but of a dubious dimension,...

OPINION: SULTAN OF SOKOTO, RECESSION AND WILL OF ALLAH

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III has recently  attributed the current economic recession in the country to the will of  God and urged Nigerians to seek holiness and repentance. Sultan  Abubakar III made this statement...

OPINION: NIGERIAN PILGRIMS IN THE LAST HAJJ SEASON   

The immediate last Hajj exercise was indeed successful that it is worth  reviewing. It started with the first batch of Nigerian pilgrims  departing Sokoto and landing safely at Prince Muhammad bin Abdul-Aziz  International Airport in Madinah on Monday August...