Opinion

OPINION: ERROR IN OGAH’S CERTIFICATE OF RETURN: LEGAL IMPLICATION

My inbox is filled with a thousand and one questions not dissimilar to the caption of this brief article. I have been inundated with series of calls that require explanations on the effect of the obvious mistake found in...

OPINION: IF ONLY WE CAN AGREE ON WHY SUYA IS SOLD AT NIGHT

Ndi Igbo talk say "Nwunye anyi, nwunye anyi": ka ndeli bia ka anyi mara onye o bu nwunye ya. I heard about a patient in a mental hospital who was holding his ear close to the wall, listening intently....

OPINION: FOR NIGERIA’S RAIL TRANSPORT, A NEW DAY BECKONS

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For decades, Nigerians had dreamt of a crisp transport system, built around the railway technology like in developed countries for mass movement. The dream is as good as coming to fulfilment now, as all hands are already on deck...

OPINION: BREXIT AS BRITISH RESPONSE TO RADICAL ISLAM

DOGS AT PLAY The Igbo believe that there is a standard rule of play which dogs observe when two of them are at play: When one dog falls on its back the other dog knows without any other prompting that...

OPINION: BUHARI MAKING THE BEST OF CIVILIAN JTF

In the early days of what was then viewed as a menace, my elder brother, who was at the time working in Borno, first told me about locals organising themselves into groups to take on Boko Haram in the...

OPINION: DEBT PROFILE AND DEBT MANAGEMENT UNDER PMB

Every country in the world aims at achieving economic growth and development, however, this is only possible if a country has adequate resources. In developing countries, especially those in sub Sahara Africa, the resources to finance the optimal level...

OPINION: 2019: IS OGUN STATE NOW FOR SALE

Even though the last general election was just a year ago, the race to occupy the Oke-Mosan Governor’s office of Ogun State has begun in an unprecedented pace. In what seems like a planned move, potential contenders have started...

OPINION: ABDULMUMIN JIBRIN: WHEN THE HONEY IS NO LONGER SWEET

When in December 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2016 budget to the National Assembly, hopes were high that the 'budget of change' has come to revive the dwindling fortunes of the Nigerian economy. Few months down the line,...

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: DEATH OF A PREACHER: WHEN RELIGION BECOMES EVIL

She didn't have to die this way. Let me paint the picture for you. Saturday, July 9, began like any other day for Deaconess Eunice Elisha, wife of Pastor Olawale Elisha of the Divine Touch Parish of the Redeemed Christian...