Opinion

OPINION: KEN SARO-WIWA JNR – UNTIMELY EXIT OF A PATRIOT AND PEACEMAKER

The beep of a text message woke me up on that fateful day. My eyes were still heavy and so I reckoned that I needed a little more sleep. I managed to stand up and loitered around my room...

OPINION: WELCOME PRESIDENT TRUMP

Sometime in 2008, I found myself in Berlin Germany on a scholarship programme. The programme fell within the period of the debate in America on whether or not it was appropriate for the Democratic Party candidate in that election...

OPINION: EDUCATING RENO OMOKRI     

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Some years ago, I met a wonderful Nigerian/Canadian man, who was not  only an intellectual but has made a mark as an entrepreneur in Canada.    During one of our many discussions, he expressed delight that his  personal friend, Barack...

OPINION” ELDER ORUBEBE, TRUMP AND OTHER STORIES   

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full--Henry  A. Kissinger A Professor was traveling from ACCRA to TAMALE in GHANA. And somewhere  between EASTERN REGION and ASHANTI REGION, one of the tyres in the front  wheel...

OPINION: THE TRUE FACE OF AMERICA

Donald Trump is not the face you know about America, so the shock was shared worldwide on his Election. The United States of America you know has not changed but the Government will change. Fortunately, most of the Americans...

OPINION: BUILDING MOSQUES AND ECONOMIC RECESSION IN NIGERIA   

The Jigawa state government has just announced a major state  development project: the construction of ninety mosques; three in each  of the constituencies. One assumes that this project is a way that the  government wants to use to show...

OPINION: MINISTER FASHOLA; POWER SECTOR NEEDS LAW   

Most Nigerians will commend the performance, so far, of the honourable  minister since the beginning of his tenure as the minister for works,  housing and power and his antecedent in the transformation that took  place in Lagos state when...

OPINION: TRIBUTE TO ONE OF THE FINEST NATIONALISTS, LATE SIR OLANIWUN AJAYI

It is usually a thing of shock to come into consciousness that the phenomenon called death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain every mortal. Watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a...

OPINION: THE NECESSITY OF EDUCATIONAL FLEXIBILITY

The necessity of career colleges is crucial to development of the socio  economy of any country, especially the developing ones, like ours,  because career colleges provide students with options based on not only  “what they learn” but “how they...

OPINION: OOOPS….TRUMP IS PRESIDENT-ELECT OF AMERICA!

Just when you thought it was safe to come out from behind the sofa Donald Trump trumps Hilary Clinton to become the 45th President of America. In a shock election victory he won 276 electoral college votes to Hilary Clinton...