Opinion

OPINION: GENDER DOES NOT CONFER LEADERSHIP

The world was agog this week with the certainty that the next British Prime Minister would be a woman. The attainment of that office this Wednesday by  Theresa May  who replaced a politically-crushed David Cameron at 10, Downing Street,...

OPINION: AIRHIAVBERE’S POLITICS OF DESPERATION

It is now very clear that the former gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State in the 2012 election, Major General Charles Airhiavbere (retd.), is desperate to ingratiate himself, at all cost, with the leadership...

OPINION: FRANCE CAN LEARN HOW TO SUBDUE TERRORISTS FROM NIGERIA

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The world sympathizes and cries with France for the continual loss of innocent lives in the hands of terror. Nigeria has also paid dearly from the atrocities of Boko Haram, one of the deadliest perpetrators of terrors in the...

OPINION: THERESA MAY, MELAYE AND THE LEADER’S WIFE

“Have you been to Bourdillon? Or rather I should ask when are you going to Bourdillon?” “What’s happening?” “I hear people are paying solidarity visits to the Tinubus to express their dismay over Senator Dino Melaye’s assault on Senator Remi Tinubu,...

OPINION: KILLING OF CHRISTIANS: I AM OLDER AND WISER

No country has ever benefited from religious intolerance. Every religious divide has insidious sentiments against the other but the ability to manage angst is what differentiates some people from beats. Religious based hate which most people cannot understand yet...

OPINION: ELECTRICITY TARIFF: HAIL THE LEGISLATURE AND THE JUDICIARY FOR SAVING NIGERIANS

For effectual democracy, the role of the Legislature and that of the Judiciary are symbiotic that the two arms must remain at parallel lines. The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday issued a plaudit affirmation of the position of...

OPINION: FG APPOINTMENTS/RESTRUCTURING: BETWEEN NORTHERN CHRISTIANS AND IGBO MUSLIMS

However heady some Nigerians may feel on this critical topic, it is not over-flogged because it is a livewire in the political coexistence of the nation. Nigerians are talking about it in their inter and intra-city sojourns, in the...

OPINION: RULES FOR LOOTERS!

In his coaching career, Richard Templar identified rules people from all walk of life should play by in their journey to the top. Templar wrote on rules of work, rules of life and rules of management among others to...

OPINION: LEARN FROM BRITAIN’S ABDICATION IN EUROPEAN UNION

Sometimes a country may abdicate its leadership role if the financial and emotional costs may exceed what it can bear. These are the main reasons given to the supporters of Brexit, which the world found to be tenuous at...

OPINION: NIGERIA: HOW TO QUIT PUBLIC OFFICE WITH DIGNITY

My arrival in the United Kingdom on Wednesday July 13th 2016 coincided with the making of political history. Wednesday July 13th 2016  was exactly when British Politics underwent a baptism of transformation with the emergence of former Home Secretary Mrs....