Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA POLICE AND EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS

On Wednesday, 26th of October, 2016, the House of Representatives summoned the Inspector-General of Police, IGP Ibrahim Idris, to appear before it over escalating cases of extra-judicial killings in the country by his men. The Police boss is to appear...

OPINION: BINDOW AND THE CHALLENGES OF DECAYED HEALTH AND EDUCATION SECTORS

Education and good healthcare are key components to the fundamental human right. And, like other human rights, these two cannot be taken for granted. Across the world, 59 million children and 65 million adolescents are out of school and...

OPINION: AS THE DOLLAR SELLS FOR N500…

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An objective evaluation and analysis of Nigeria’s economic collapse points directly to President Muhammadu Buhari and his unprecedented inaction and monumental blunder in failing to appoint his ministers and form a government until 6 months after he was sworn...

OPINION: SELFISH EXCITEMENT FOR FOREIGN TRIPS BY NIGERIAN GOVS

Those in search of irrational and disgraceful justification of misconduct from Nigeria’s public officials should turn to Ekiti state Governor Ayodele  Fayose. His vocabulary is always drenched in classic idiocy and lunatic ecstasy in support of an unpopular cause. Mid...

OPINION: RE-EVALUATING THE BOKO HARAM CONFLICT

Many political analysts had projected that if Muhammadu Buhari won the March 2015 Nigerian presidential election, it could lead to the deceleration of the Boko Haram conflict because many of the local grievances into which those terrorists tapped would...

OPINION: THE AUDACITY OF EYE SERVICE

So it was friday night in Kigali and my best friend Jekwu Ozoemena was taking me out after several business meetings. Jekwu is one of those guys who can actually walk and chew gum. After remotely picking up my team and...

OPINION: THE DEATH WISH OF THE NINETY PERCENTERS

Going by all available records, Nigerian politicians generally, shortly before and immediately after independence from Britain, were often referred to as ten percenters.  This was a reference to a situation where ten per cent of the worth of any...

OPINION: ONDO STATE: JIMOH IBRAHIM AND THE LIMITS OF POLITICAL CHARLATANISM

The Ondo State governorship election is just a few days away. While serious candidates from across all political parties are putting finishing touches to their campaigns and preparations, one Jimoh Ibrahim is desperately busy working hard with collaborators to...

OPINION: AKEES- A PURPOSE VEHICLE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

When it first debuted some 15 months ago, many considered it a political rhetoric and a platform for the relaunching of a re-run campaign that seemed then to rule political discourse in the State. But the sincerity that underlined...

OPINION: HOW HAS BURATAI ENFORCED DISCIPLINE?

There is little doubt that PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI has had a formidable military background during his years in service as attested to by no less a person than LIEUTENANT GENERAL THEOPHILUS DANJUMA. In a foreword he General Theophilus Danjuma  penned...