Opinion

OPINION: JONATHAN’S WRONG PARROTING, IN WRONG CLIMES

Former President Goodluck Jonathan seems to have broken his long silence since eviction from Aso Rock Villa last year. He has been quiet, watching in utter surprise the demystification and unveiling of the plague of his six-year reign of...

OPINION: LET’S TALK ABOUT S.EX!   

It’s strange that whenever you mention the word ‘SEX’ it grabs  everybody’s attention: they drop everything they are doing and want to  read more. Well I’m sorry for misleading you for I’m not about to talk about  ‘SEX’ today but...

OPINION: SETTING THE AGENDA FOR THE NOV 1 MEETING BETWEEN NIGER DELTA STAKEHOLDERS AND PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI  

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The oil-rich delta region of southern Nigeria - called Niger Delta - is  larger than 70,000 square kilometers with a population larger of over 35  million people - larger than the population of Saudi Arabia, Belgium,  Australia, Greece, Netherlands,...

OPINION: RE: IGBOS ARE THEIR OWN WORST ENEMIES

Setting the records straight The recent statement by Dr. Orji Uzor which appeared on some major newspapers that Igbos are their worst own enemies calls for great concern and anyone who knows the Bendel State born politician should call him...

OPINION: EVALUATING AFRICA AFTER OBAMA   

Less than a week from today, Americans will make a choice of who would  succeed President Barrack Obama next January after the first ever  Black American president would have served his two terms of four years  each in the...

OPINION: LOSING OUR OUR PAST, GROPING INTO THE FUTURE

Many Nigerians live in a bewildering world. They cannot make sense of  their circumstances as poverty struts  the land like a conquering giant  with its Siamese twin, hunger, battling many to submission. With  inflation at an official 17.9 percent high,...

OPINION: PDP: OVERCOMING LEGAL HURDLES AND THE PROSPECTS OF VICTORY IN ONDO GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION

There is no end in sight to the crisis rocking the opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Today, the party once standing on the podium of excellence is a shadow of itself. After the missed opportunities for political re-engineering, realignment...

OPINION: GOVERNORS AND THE COMIC APPROACH TO GOVERNANCE   

At a time when all hands should be on deck in returning Nigeria back to  the path of growth from the current economic recession, nothing can be  as disheartening as the failure of the 36 state governors to realize ...

OPINION: THE ACCOMMODATION RACKET AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA (UNN)

Since the commencement of this new academic session, several students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), have been badly destablised by the very frustrating method deployed by the Student Affairs Department in the allocation of hostel accommodation to...

OPINION: OBASANJO AND HIS 25 BILLIONAIRES

The brief exchange (as reported by the News Agency of Nigeria via PUNCH newspaper on October 30, 2016) between Former President Olusegun Obasanjo - Onyejekwe and Mrs. Folorunso Alakija at the 2016 Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum last weekend...