Opinion

OPINION: REPORTED RELEASE OF KABIRU SOKOTO: HATRED FOR PRESIDENT BUHARI TAKEN TOO FAR

There have been malicious, unsubstantiated and wicked insinuations and reports on social media and on various online medium that President Muhammadu Buhari has "released" convicted Boko Haram kingpin, Kabiru Dikko, alias Kabiru Sokoto. The insinuation became rife due to the...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S OIL IS 15% OF GDP: WHY BLAMING OIL FOR THE RECESSION?

Nigeria is officially in recession and when you ask the country’s policy makers: What is the cause of the recession?  You may likely know the answer they will say even before I called them out on it. Without hesitation,...

OPINION: THE PRESENT ANAMBRA GOVERNMENT BEHAVES LIKE A THIEF

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The headline of Monday’s news on ABS is that Anambra State Government has acquired 100 tractors for farming in the State. This is another big lie from Gov. Willie Obiano. With this one can justifiably say they behave like thieves,...

OPINION: STILL ON THE POSTPONEMENT OF EDO GOVERNORSHIP ELECTION

The postponement of the Edo Governorship election, earlier scheduled to hold on the 10th of September over what our security agencies described as security threat by militants and extremists during the period has finally revealed the level of unpreparedness...

OPINION: ADMITTING GUILT: WHO ‘DO’ US THIS KIND THING?

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” –Socrates. One of the greatest preachers who ever lived, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, called the "prince of preachers," loved to...

OPINION: UNTANGLING EDO ELECTION STALEMATE

On the 8th day of September 2016, I started putting my thoughts on paper on a post-election Edo State. My organisation ANEEJ had been involved only at the point where we tried to clear a field and let all...

OPINION: WHO AND WHERE ARE OUR PROPHETS, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR YOUTHS?

Please, permit me, to start today’s submission with Karl Popper’s thoughtful provocation, when he said, "We may become the makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets." The case of Aworiland is similar to that...

OPINION: LETTER TO OYO STATE APC LEADERS AND STAKEHOLDERS

In my letter of July 9th, 2016 titled, Open Letter to Governor Abiola Ajimobi, I indicated that the promise made to the people of Oyo State by “His Excellency” Governor Abiola Ajimobi that local government election will hold in...

OPINION : BETWEEN THE JOURNALIST AND THE SPOKESPERSON

In the past few weeks, my colleagues who have taken over as spokespersons for the Muhammadu Buhari government and the All Progressives Congress have found themselves in the line of fire, as they are accused of destroying their old...

OPINION:  HAJJ BOYCOTT: ISN’T THIS SHI’A IMPUNITY?

‘Do Not Have Anything To Do With Those Who Split Up Their Religion Into Sects.’- Qur’an 6:159 Interesting! Shi’a Muslims from Iran (and, perhaps, Shi’a Muslims from other countries too) were absent on Sunday, September 11, as Muslims converged on...