Opinion

OPINION: PRINCE ABIODUN OPANUBI: A PERSONAL TRAGEDY

There are people whose lives may read like fiction. In a world built on material considerations and self- interest, it is difficult to come across people who are not engaged in the rat race, live selfless lives and are...

OPINION: WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION: ROLE OF JUDICIARY, STATE AND SOCIETY

I would like to commence this intervention with the very cryptic statement by President Muhammadu Buhari at the opening ceremony of the 55th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA on August 21,2015 where Mr. President urged...

OPINION: ISLAMIC TERRORISM: ISN’T IT TIME UP FOR CHANCELLOR MERKEL?

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OPINION: DONALD TRUMP, BREXIT AND OTHER LESSONS FROM CONSERVATIVE PARTIES’ POLITICS

Conservative parties, be they called the Tory Party, or Republican Party, or Likud Party, have for the most part of the early 20th century to present advocated policies that seemed unreasonable but the world continued to vote them into...

OPINION: USING UNIVERSITIES TO DRIVE CHANGE

Government policies in Nigeria are rarely informed by rigorous research. More often than not, it does appear that planning is done amid the near absence of hard facts. This aversion for information-based planning partly explains why most incumbent governments...

OPINION: ARMS PROCUREMENT PROBE: THE BEATIFICATION OF SAINTS DANBAZAU AND BURATAI

The suspected cache of sleaze prevalent in the military between 2007- 2015 on the pretext of fighting Boko Haram provoked the setting up of a 13 man committee on Audit of Defence Equipment Procurement (CADEP) in the Nigerian Armed...

OPINION: RESTRUCTURING: CAN WE TRY THE ABACHA FORMULA?

In more ways than one, the death of General Sani Abacha robbed Nigerians of the opportunity of consigning the hot air over marginalization, more imagined than real, to the back seat of our national discourse. Reference here is to...

OPINION: MUCH ADO ABOUT HIJAB IN NIGERIAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

The loud noise across the country, especially in the Southwest of Nigeria, about the use or disuse of hijab is uncalled for. Let this madness of seeking to ban what is part and parcel of an internationally accepted creed...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S QUEST TO RECLAIMING ECONOMIC STABILITY

Sentiment towards the Nigerian economy received a painful blow in July following the shocking reports that the nation had slipped into a technical recession. Africa’s largest economy has been heavily pressured by falling commodity prices, while external global uncertainties...

OPINION: WHEN TRUTH DEFEATS FALSEHOOD

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”-  Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Chinese warrior and master strategist, Sun Tzu in the Art of War envisaged that it is not at all time that the...