Opinion

OPINION: I VOTE FOR RESTRUCTURING…!

It is a season of votes once again. It is a season of making decisions to reject poverty in all its ramifications. It is a season to inject in ourselves another consciousness of development akin to what obtains in...

OPINION: APC AND THE FORGOTTEN PROMISE OF RESOURCE CONTROL AND FISCAL FEDERALISM

At the heart of our existence, is a burning issue that several administrations have battled to suppress. For too long, we have passed on the opportunity to restructure this country. We can continue to live in denial for as...

OPINION: WHO CHECKS THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY

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The National Assembly is rightly referred to as the symbol of our democracy. This is so because it is the only arm of government usually sacked whenever the military takes over, hence, the absence of the legislative arm is...

OPINION: THE NEED TO FIX ABA- IKOT-EKPENE ROAD

Aba- Ikot-Ekpene Road is unarguably strategic to the economy of Abia State. The road links Aba, the economic heartbeat of the state to Akwa Ibom and Cross Rivers States and extends to the neighbouring West African country, Cameroon. Traders from...

OPINION: CORRUPTION: TIME TO GIVE OBJ A HEARING!

If he didn’t believe in the saying, embattled House speaker, Yakubu Dogara, must have realized by now that heaven indeed knows no fury like a woman scorned! Otherwise, he would have been circumspect in handling his former sidekick and...

OPINION: THE CONSPIRACY TO SCANDALIZE MAYOWA’S FAMILY: UNVEILING THE ACTORS, LINDA IKEJI, ARAMIDE KASUMU, AND TOYIN

My attention was first drawn to Mayowa’s case through the University of Lagos Alumni Association, when her video soliciting for help was shared with us. I was moved to tears seeing Mayowa’s beautiful face before her sickness and what...

OPINION: FACTS ON OSUN: SALARIES AND PENSIONS

Since the problem of non-payment of salaries for public sector workers across states of the federation became national issue early this year, the Aregbesola government, which started the policy of denying workers their salaries since late 2014, has been...

OPINION: BRUNT OF QUIVERING OIL PRICE

The decreasing oil revenues in the international market at a time of mounting government expenditure have become a hitch to the developmental aspiration of the present government. Over dependent on oil, Major General Muhammadu Buhari was with high hope to...

OPINION: MODU SHERIFF AND PDP LEADERSHIP TUSSLE

There seems to be no end in sight to the crisis that erupted in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) since Ali Modu Sheriff, the erstwhile Governor of Borno State emerged in February this year as the acting National Chairman. ...

OPINION: RESTRUCTURING LAW ENFORCEMENT & POLICING FOR A NEW NIGERIA

Globally, policing has been going through a transition since the start of the millennium. With diverse pressures and diverging expectations, financial paucity, the concept of policing has been seeking a self-adaptive mutation for acceptance without universal success. In a major report in...