Opinion

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’

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“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...

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…

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...