Opinion

OPINION: GUBER POLL: MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT OLUSOLA OKE

Since the emergence of the former Attorney General and commissioner for Justice in Ondo State, Mr Eyitayo Jegede, as the Peoples Democratic Party governorship candidate, the political climate of the state has changed. The chess-game and permutations within the...

OPINION: WHAT HAS RESTRUCTURING GOT TO DO WITH BREAK UP?

Listening to opponents of the idea these days, one is left with the impression that constitutional restructuring of Nigeria will, willy-nilly, set this beautiful country of wonderful people on the path of disintegration. The mere thought of a break...

OPINION: BEWARE OF AMERICANS, EVEN IF THEY BEAR GIFTS

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American Secretary of State John Kerry paced through Nigeria August 23-24 talking counter-terrorism, economy, anti-corruption and human rights. I watched to see if the unipolar world power has had a change of heart towards us. If it had, I wondered...

OPINION: ABEGI, WHERE DOES PATIENCE LIVE IN NIGERIA?

IT TAKES PATIENCE TO LISTEN... IT TAKES SKILL TO PRETEND THAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY LISTENING. I am going to start this week's admonition with this lengthy story, but please bear with me, and let us read it together... A NYC Taxi...

OPINION: BABOON PATIENCE AND DOG BUHARI

Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari said after the 2011 elections that “if what happened then (alleged rigging) should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” He did...

OPINION: PARABLES OF RIO

There have been controversies over the hosting of the Olympic Games. In fact there have been mass boycotts. For instance, most African countries boycotted the 1976 Games due to the non-expulsion of New Zealand which maintained close sporting links...

OPINION: CLIMATE CHANGE LESSONS FROM OGHARA 

Last year November-December 2015, nearly 200 countries converged in Paris France to ratify the Climate Change deal which the Conference of Parties, COP, had negotiated in April of that same year. That convergence was not new nor was it...

OPINION: ‘SOLUTION TO THE NIGER DELTA PROBLEM: HOW TO APPEASE THE WARRING MILITANTS’

Ever since oil was discovered in the Niger Delta more than sixty years ago the lives of the people there have been blighted by widespread ecological and environmental pollution. It has reduced residents’ life expectancy, led to the abandonment...

OPINION: WHY PRESIDENT BUHARI IS LINKED TO CHINAKWE’S CASE: A REJOINDER TO GARBA

I read the dismissive and unsatisfactory reaction of presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu to the worrisome and ferociously  contested case of Mr. Joachim Foretemose Iroko Chinakwe as published on his social media accounts, specifically on Facebook and Twitter, in...

OPINION: BURATAI: A PROPHET HOME AND ABROAD

‘A prophet has no honour in his own country’, is certainly a saying that is not applicable to Nigeria’s military, which has recently proven it can attract accolades from home and abroad. Such accolades came from no less a person...