Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA ELITE AND THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

In The Silence of the Lambs (1991), a young FBI cadet must confide in an incarcerated and manipulative killer to receive his help on catching another serial killer who skins his victims. I see the behavior of Nigerian intellectual...

OPINION: REMEMBERING ALI A MAZRUI (1)

How do you go about immortalizing a man whose works already immortalized him while he was alive? That was precisely what Twaweza Communications of Kenya and Binghamton University of New York sought to do  when they organized a symposium...

OPINION: OKONJO-IWEALA AND CHEAP PUBLICITY

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“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”_ Benjamin Disraeli, one-time British Prime Minister. “When your success hovers from one person to the other, it will definitely get to someone who will regard it as failure.” ...

OPINION: WOLE SOYINKA – GREAT COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE OF NOW

The quest endures frills not space as it fills Words really have meaning in the hands of a warrior chronicler A brilliant mind that free words to be active Never knew words have momentum Yes buttress the society with words with consequences You liberated...

OPINION: 2016 HAJJ: E-WRISTBAND INTRODUCTION FOR NIGERIAN PILGRIMS

The introduction of e-wristband for the use of Nigerian pilgrims during the 2016 Hajj is a novelty project that is expected to protect the pilgrims throughout the period of their stay in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pilgrims can...

OPINION: THIS MADNESS CALLED POST-UTME!

Sometime in 2005, University admission seekers received perhaps the most shocking news of their lives. The then Minister of Education, Mrs. Chinwe Obaji, introduced a strange policy of subjecting candidates another round of psychological torture of having to sit...

OPINION: THE PATH TO  YOUR E-MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS

Most fortunes are made online these days, predominantly in the fields of apps and games development and social media. Whilst everyone is not in the league – or have the resources – to develop the next Pokemon Go! Or Call...

OPINION: THE OKIGWE SENATORIAL RE-RUN ELECTION: ONE MORE ‘INCONCLUSIVE ELECTION’ TOO MANY UNDER INEC

The decision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare the Saturday July 23 Senatorial re-run election in Okigwe Senatorial Zone, Imo State as 'inconclusive' is outrageous and calls for national and international attention on the integrity and...

OPINION: ABDULMUMIN JIBRIN: ON N250M FOR HIS WIFE, CONSTITUENCY AND HIS EFCC CASE 

The recent outbursts by Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin, member of the House of Representatives, representing Kiru/Bebeji Federal Constituency of Kano State, against the leadership of the House and by extension the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara, should come as no...

OPINION: INSTITUTIONALIZING PRESIDENT BUHARI’S CORRUPTION CRUSADE

If there is any Nigerian, irrespective of party or status, who wants Nigeria to remain a corrupt nation, let the person speak out. If there is any corrupt Nigerian, irrespective of present location whether in prison or detention, who...