Opinion

OPINION: HAVE THINGS FALLEN APART IN APC?

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre; the falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the centre cannot hold…” - The second Coming What else can aptly situate the current embarrassing state of affairs in the ruling All Progressive...

OPINION: UNEARTHING THE AUGEAN OF MESS IN THE JUDICIARY

A society where the last hope of the common man is reduced to an avenue where justice is peddled and sold to the corrupt and mighty is no better than Hobbesian Society where lives are brutish, nasty and short....

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI’S ASSAULT ON THE JUDICIARY

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The Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Garba Shehu, has revealed that the Department of State Services (DSS) followed due process before embarking on the raid of the judges’ houses. He is quoted as...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI, WHERE’S OUR ECONOMIC ROADMAP?

Nigerians should rejoice at the current economic downturn. Jump with joy as high as hungry bellies allow. Because the recession has unveiled a start line for Nigeria’s miracle race into the club of advance economies where a better life, with the...

OPINION: GESTAPO ARREST: A RUSTY JOB AGAINST A DUSTY JUDICIARY

The judiciary has gone unnoticed as one of the arms of government that has benefitted most in the corruption fiesta of the country in the past 16 years of our democratization process. The corrupt ones among the luminaries have...

OPINION: NIGERIA IS LIKE THIS AND LIKE THAT…

Do you remember that gist on the bush meat and the hunter? It was Frank Zappa that said there is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. This cannot be more true than...

OPINION: NBA GOT IT WRONG, I STAND WITH THE DSS

"Nigerians condemn NBA's threat over judges' arrest" _Premium Times_‎; "Buhari's DSS boys go crazy - Arrest over four top judges in Abuja" _Punch Newspaper_; "Dino Melaye blasts DSS over arrest of judges" _Daily Post_ "DSS gestapo invasion of judges'...

OPINION: “CRACKDOWN” ON JUDICIAL OFFICERS – SEPARATING THE LAW FROM SENTIMENTS

The State Security Service (SSS) embarked on an unprecedented "crackdown" on allegedly corrupt judicial officers across the country over the weekend. Among the judicial officers whose houses were searched and thereafter arrested and detained are two Justices of the...

OPINION: LEGALISE INDIGENOUS CRUDE OIL REFINING, STOP CRIMINALISING IT

Am l the only one miffed by the manner in which the Nigerian Air Force, NAF recently exhibited its 'prowess' as evidenced by its targeted strikes of indigenous oil refineries in the Niger delta? In demonstration of NAF's new found...

OPINION: THE ALLEGED TINUBU CRISIS AND THE YORUBA WAY FORWARD

A lot has been said (mainly by people within the PDP) emphasizing the supposed cracks between the Presidency and the most influential political figure from the South West of Nigeria in the person of Bola Tinubu. The narratives seems to...