Opinion

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

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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....

OPINION: DOES ‘WHO GETS WHAT’ REALLY MATTER?

The inspiration for this reflection is a robust conversation I had with someone regarding my last week’s column. A sub theme in the column was on ‘Buhari should look into allegations of northernisation policy’. My friend, let’s call him...

OPINION: A SENATE WITHOUT ORDER

There is a reason why countries like the United States and United Kingdom maintain bicameral legislatures. While some might argue that the US is so large and will want equal and qualitative representations for its citizens, that argument may...

OPINION: BUHARI: A PRESIDENT FROZEN IN TIME

There is hardly any Nigerian who is not in a state of despair right now. Since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president last year, despondency has enveloped the nation. Disappointment makes the misery worse. In the build-up to the...

OPINION: A MOVEMENT TO END THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been steadily deteriorating, making the prospect of reaching an agreement on the basis of a two-state solution ever more intractable.  What is sorely lacking is effective opposition parties that could present an alternative to Netanyahu’s...