Opinion

OPINION: CAREER SCHOOLS: CHOICE OR NECESSITY

The reality here is that changes in today’s global market make career  or vocational schools attractive.  Even though Nigeria is a developing country, we are still impacted by  globalization based on some of the characteristics of our economy or ...

OPINION: WHY THE SENATE MUST CONSIDER AND APPROVE THE $30BILLION LOAN

In his loan request letter to the National Assembly last Tuesday, 25th  of October, 2016, President Buhari said the external loan, will fund  targeted projects cutting across all sectors with special emphasis on  infrastructure, agriculture, health, education, water supply,...

OPINION: CABINET DISSOLUTION AND THE STRATEGIC POSTURING   

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At some point he served as head of strategic planning in Zenith Bank; a  responsibility that has great demands and challenges. Whether his penchant for strategic thinking is a natural course or a result of the  much training he...

OPINION: THE CHALLENGES FACING THE GROWTH OF TOURISM IN AFRICA

I was privileged to attend the 12th edition of the African Travel & Tourism Conference (Akwaaba): a gathering of travel and tourism experts in Africa – both from private establishments and various government parastatals. The event held at the...

OPINION: $29 BILLION LOAN: ETHICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL SIN OF OVERLOOKING SOUTH EAST   

Nigeria is basically administered in line with the provisions of the Constitution of 1999 (as amended).    Irrespective of the manifest irregularities and imbalances that the  military’s imposition of the National constitution of 1999 foisted  on us especially with regards...

OPINION: EDUCATION AND THE THREATS TO NIGERIA’S INTERNAL SECURITY

INTRODUCTION ​It gives me great pleasure to address my childhood constituency, the Barewa Old Boys Association.   It is a singular honour indeed to be invited to deliver the 2016 Annual Lecture.  This lecture is long rooted  in a tradition within...

OPINION: SEN. PETER NWAOBOSHI’S CHILDISH TANTRUM

Attacks Presidential Spokesman, Femi Adesina. And guess who came to show his uncouthness in Abuja. No other than Sen. Peter Nwaoboshi! Those who knew he tagged along to the meeting of the President by the Niger Delta Stakeholders, would wonder...

OPINION: OBIECHINA VS CHIME A SUPREME COURT CASE AND MATTERS ARISING

Three components of Nigerian laws are: The Constitution, Laws made by legislature since the adoption of the constitution, and Supreme court’s decisions. The constitution expressly prohibits the legislatures from making what is known in legal parlance as ex post...

OPINION: HOW TRUMP EXPOSES THE UNDERBELLY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY

The current presidential campaigns in the US has  exposed the underbelly of American democracy which should force us to re-think some of the assumptions we have about ‘mature democracies’ and ‘democratising states’. The classic assumption is that in mature...

OPINION: MMM: LOOKING BEYOND THE “SCAM” UNDERPINNING

Nigerians are resourceful, innovative and desperate people. That is why it’s the second country in Africa MMM “wonder bank” scheme birthed and is festering with over 1.5 million participants. The combination of some of the qualities associated with an...