Opinion

OPINION: POLITICS OF ‘AIRSTRIKES’ 

Airstrikes, the pounding of the ground by powerful bombs raining from  the skies, is on-going  in three countries of the Middle East. Although  the targets and victims including armed and unarmed persons, the strong  and the weak, children and...

OPINION: NDDC: TASK BEFORE NDOMA-EGBA-LED BOARD   

The task before the newly inaugurated board of the Niger Delta  Development Commission (NDDC) led by former Senate Leader, Senator  Victor Ndoma-Egba is, no doubt, quite enormous. The commission under the  chairmanship of Ndoma-Egba with the former Deputy Governor of...

OPINION: ISLAM: NO ROMANCE FOR WOMEN IN NORTHERN NIGERIA?   

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The recent prosecution of eleven women by Hisbah in Kano state  underscores a misogynistic strand in the practice of Sharia and Islam in  Northern Nigeria. This hateful and abusive trend needs to be highlighted  and tackled with uttermost...

OPINION: ANTICS OF THE NEW GODFATHER IN EDO

The outgoing Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has, by the way he cavalierly manipulated the conduct and outcome of the September 28 governorship election, proved to the entire world that he is an unkind Mafioso.  Having unsympathetically arm-twisted ambitious individuals...

OPINION: Re: BUHARI, JONATHAN AND A REDEFINITION OF CHANGE

For a while now, Nigerians have had to endure a whole stream of articles coming from the pen of a certain former adviser to the Goodluck Jonathan led Federal Government and now hanger on and serial addition to foreign...

OPINION: AMERICA VOTES IN A RACE THAT INVOLVES THE WORLD

In Four days Americans will vote for a new President. The race has  already polarised America. A man that tries to represent the old  establishment pitched against a woman that says the new is better.  Americans are wary of returning...

OPINION: THE DEDUCED IDIOSYNCRASY OF THE SENATE TOWARDS THE REJECTED GENDER EQUALITY BILL

She is a lady against the brutal affront of the echoes of her minimal gender, condemned to a stiller doom, taught to be rebellious with such human tranquility.  Yet her rebellious soul revolts against such stereotyped ferments in the...

OPINION: NIGERIAN ARMY AND THE TERRORISTS WITHIN   

The military leadership has over time been commended for the turnaround they brought to the nation's fighting capabilities. The overhaul they made was in part credited for the ability of troops to take on and wear down a terrorists’...

OPINION: BUHARI’S TYRANNY AND THE CALL FOR REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA

Are you sincerely pleased with the situation in Nigeria under the  leadership of President Buhari? This is the first question every  Nigerian should ask themselves before deciding on actions to take. I was wondering when things will begin to take...

OPINION: IMO CHIEF OF STAFF AND THE DANCE OF TORTOISE   

Inaki Urdangarin they say is not a good man. His name, Inaki Urdangarin  turned from "ideal son-in-law" to the black sheep of Spain's royal  family when he landed in court in a corruption case. He had his little  ways....