Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: EDUCATION & NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS FROM PETER OBI’S MODEL

There is universal acknowledgement of the primacy of Education in the sustainable development of any society; and this can hardly be over-stressed. Education is the foundation on which societies are built and defines the quality of life. Up to the...

OPINION: MUST YOU ABUSE US?

Physical abuse now pervades. It is observed in public places and even at home. When it is public, it gains an outcry but when it is private (at home), its a domestic affair. Since the typical way of raising a...

OPINION: WHO IS FIGHTING WITH THE ECONOMIST?

In the weeks which had just passed, I have read two very curious publications. I often come across curious publications every now and then, and ultimately, the decision to join issues with one or two of them and take...

OPINION: NIGERIA: LETS EMPLACE TWO REFINED IDEOLOGICAL POLITICAL PARTIES(LIBERALISM AND CONSERVATISM)NOW!

True! This writer has been and will always be a proponent of two (ideological-based) political parties in Nigeria (please see his opus on this issue/topic titled: “The Need for Two Political Party System in Nigeria Now”, May 2010). Indeed,...