Opinion

OPINION: THIS $29.9BN LOAN REQUEST BY MR PRESIDENT – CAN WE DO BETTER THAN THIS?

‘Considering the huge infrastructure deficit currently being experienced in the country and the enormous financial resources required to fill the gap in the face of dwindling resources and the inability of our annual budgetary provisions to bridge the infrastructure...

OPINION: OSINBAJO RIDICULED UNITED LOOTERS OF NIGERIA AT HARVARD

The Vice President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo was invited to Harvard University Divinity School to give a lecture on Boko Haram by Professor Olupono. He gave informed overview in limited time last Thursday.  It was the follow-up questions that...

OPINION: DR. DANJUMA ADAMU DABO: THE RICH THAT SUBSIDIZES THE POOR IN THE MIDST OF RECESSION

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It has been established long overdue especially in a capitalist driven society that profit maximization is and will remain the major concern of the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisies hoodwink the poor; extort them, using different tools at their disposal for...

OPINION: UNHOLY GRAIL OF WHISTLEBLOWING IN NIGERIA

Several Nigerians recently expressed a good measure of outrage at what was perceived to be the laidback disposition of the National Judicial Commission and the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, with the arrest of judges by the DSS.  The insinuation...

OPINION: NIGER DELTA DEVELOPMENT AND THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW

In Charles Dickens seminal novel, A tale of two cities, which was first published in 1859, the author opens up by positing that, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times,...it was the season of...

OPINION: ARE THE ACCUSED JUDGES BEING DIVERSIONARY?

On the heel of the recent arrests of some high court judges and justices of the Supreme Court, many Nigerians are beginning to question why they waited until this moment to assail the nation of allegations of bribery against...

OPINION: ECONOMY: NIGERIAN BANKERS AND THE BANKS   

Again Nigerians are letting the commercial banks off the hook without as  much as a slap on the wrist for their role in the current economic  recession. In the gang running our banking sector, somehow, we have  managed to...

OPINION: CONGO: ‘THE BLOODSTAINED MONUMENT OF TUTELAGE’

“In those days, When civilization kicked us in the face, When holy water slapped our cringing brows, The vultures built in the shadow of their talons, The bloodstained monument of tutelage.” - From the poem, THE VULTURES BY David...

OPINION: TRUTH, OTHER CASUALTIES OF WAR ON JUDICIAL CORRUPTION

Nigeria—or the Department of State Security (DSS), to be precise—starts an ostensible war against corruption in the judicial and said war quickly degenerates into an absurd exercise. First, Nigerians woke up two weeks ago to the startling news that DSS...

OPINION: MEET PROFESSOR ANTHONY UGOCHUKWU ALICHE, THE PROLIFIC AND VERSATILE AUTHOR

" Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.” -Ernst F. Schumacher. When a boy was born some...