Opinion

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI: THE CONTINUOUS HARASSMENT OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS AND…

Your Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. Sir, The Continuous Harassment of My Family Members and Close Associates by Security Agents and Over Zealous APC Members is Worrisome. I wish to write your Excellency once again on the continuous...

OPINION: CONSOLIDATING NIGERIA-AU TIES

Upon gaining independence in 1960, Nigeria quickly committed itself to improving the lives of the people of the country and harnessing the resources that remain vital to the economy of the country and her neighbours. By observing what benefits...

OPINION: TURKEY’S ELECTED DICTATOR

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Even before the failed military coup, Turkey’s President Erdogan governed like a dictator who had the last word on all state matters. The botched coup was nothing but, as he put it, “a gift from God” to purge what...

OPINION: BETWEEN “INTERNET GOVERNOR” AND OSHIOMHOLE’S “THIRD TERM”: A NAY VOTE

Many Nigerians, especially Edo indigenes and residents, had patiently waited for the gubernatorial campaign flag off of the All Progressives Party (APC) in Edo State, so as to make some sensible inference and possibly a starter-opinion-projection on the likely...

OPINION: WHICH IS HURTING MORE, CORRUPTION OR COLLATERAL DAMAGE FROM FIGHTING IT?

Some of us have literarily been at president Muhammadu Buhari's 'throat' over what we deem to be economically, socially and politically rough and nasty methods and procedures that mr president has been adopting in combating corruption in Nigerian polity...

OPINION: NIGERIA IS TURNING MY GENERATION INTO ANGRY OLD MEN AND WOMEN

That Nigeria is a country with great promise goes without saying. Economically she is endowed with all kinds of resources: oil, gas, gold, coal and a thousand more minerals solid and liquid. It has palm, groundnuts, cocoa, rubber, arable...

MY RESIGNATION AS CHAIRMAN OF APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

I am obliged to make further statements after listening to the full statement of Speaker Yakubu Dogara on why I had to leave as Chairman Appropriation. It is a fact I went up to the Speaker and told him...

OPINION: SOLILOQUY ON THE STRENGTH IN PATIENCE

They are so complacent over the faith that belongs to mankind in wholeness. Deadly complacency has been the bane to sustenance of greatness of the faith. They may have to recall the fall of Spain and others where the...

OPINION: KAGOTE: A FRAUD AND MISREPRESENTATION OF OGONILAND

The Ogoni people are peace-loving and have committed themselves to non-violence. The mandate to speak for and advocate their collective interests which are summed up in the Ogoni Bill of Rights have been delivered to The Movement for the...

OPINION: RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND THE NIGER DELTA QUESTION

INTRODUCTION The major challenge facing conflict resolution and sustainable development efforts in the Niger Delta is how to convince the average citizen why he /she should allow and encourage oil exploration and production in the region when it would...