Opinion

OPINION: IS A WOMAN FIT FOR THE POST OF UN SECRETARY-GENERAL?

As the contention over who becomes the next United Nations Secretary-General hits up as the current occupant, Mr. Ban Ki-moon bow's out in December this year, several interests have been pushing for their preferred candidates to succeed the South...

OPINION: HOW GOVERNOR SERIAKE DICKSON IS UNDER-DEVELOPING BAYELSA STATE

There are some leaders in Nigeria who go into power without understanding the intrigues in governance. They were never set for power and the storms that accompany executive powers. These sets of individuals end up with track records of...

OPINION: OSUNBOR AND THE “EVIL” THAT IS PDP

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When William Shakespeare, the great English playwright, talked about the evil that men do, he was referring to the nature of evil and the principle of retribution, as universally applicable to all human societies and across history. One of...

OPINION: WE ALL WANT OUR CHIBOK GIRLS BACK, AND SAFELY TOO

When it emerged in April of 2014 that over 200 Nigerian school girls had been abducted from their school, it sparked not just a national outrage and disgust, but the international community too, was outraged and disgusted at what...

OPINION: IS IT REALLY GOOD NIGHT FOR PDP?

In mathematics, especially in geometry, Pythagorean Theorem is a fantastic numerical combustion that I found very interesting. It is quite long experiences in the secondary classes. There, our mathematics teacher pronounced theorem so fast in such manner that once...

OPINION: NATION BUILDING: NIGERIA NEEDS DREAMERS

Dr. Martin Luther King Said, "I have a dream." Those words have been repeated around the world again and again- in print, on radio and TV. Because he dared to both live for and die for that dream, his...

OPINION: BUHARI’S PROPOSED EMERGENCY POWERS AND HOW NOT TO KILL A NATION

It is a season of the absurd. Nigeria is haemorrhaging uncontrollably, left for too long to bleed and now in near-comatose situation. Truly, she is in dire need of urgent attention as she suffers from economic asphyxiation on the...

OPINION: DEMYSTIFYING THE ROLE OF MONEYBAGS IN ELECTIONS

About two weeks ago, August 17-20 to be precise, the Africa Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) organized an interactive session with the gubernatorial candidates of the various political parties. The motive was to get all 19 political...

OPINION: BYE-BYE TO OSHIOMHOLE; WELCOME TO IZE-IYAMU

Prologue: This is an unsolicited endorsement of Osagie Ize-Iyamu for the 10 September 2016 gubernatorial election in Edo State by one who has followed the politics of Edo state with studious interest over the past close to 40 years and...

OPINION: THE MAN WHO NAMED HIS DOG, BUHARI

The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog – George Graham Vest (1870) Joe Fortemose Chinakwe,...