Opinion

OPINION: THE LOOMING SCENT OF ANARCHY IN ABIA

Since June 27, when the Federal Court of Appeal Abuja, presided over by Justice Okon Abang declared Uche Ogah the governor of Abia state and ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to issue him with a certificate of...

OPINION: EXTREMISM: RETURN OF ASPIRING TERRORISTS

A few lone voices named the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Shiite Sect as part of the anti-Yusuf Tukur Buratai gang which  has changed even though it remained simple. The intention has however not changed: Buratai is their enemy...

OPINION: THE NORTH IS NOT HELPING THE NORTH DESPITE BUHARI

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Let me start this week's admonition in this manner. If everyone thought as much as I did about justice and fairness, life would be better. I am a critic, but I am also the critics' critic, the unrepentant believer that...

OPINION: HADIZA BALA USMAN AND THE NIGERIAN MENTALITY

When ThisDay newspaper on July 12,2016 broke the news of Hadiza Bala Usman, then chief of staff to Governor Nasir El-Rufai being considered by President Buhari to head the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) based on the recommendation of Rotimi...

OPINION: MY RESPONSE TO MEDIA REPORTS ABOUT EFCC SUMMONS – DOYIN OKUPE, EXPLAINS MONIES RECEIVED FROM JONATHAN

I am constrained to issue this statement in response to certain publications contained in some National dailies about my recent summons by the Economic and Financial Crimes commission, EFCC In my interactions with the EFCC, I have been asked to...

OPINION: UK FOREIGN MINISTER – BORIS JOHNSON REFERRED TO AFRICANS AS “WATERMELON SMILES”

Boris Johnson is an embodiment of a colonial nostalgia. The blond red-faced bombastic rabble rouser is back again on the international news-scene. I am talking about Boris Johnson, the former mayor of London, who aspired to become UK prime minister...

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

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,...