Opinion

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

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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...

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

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...