Opinion

OPINION: ANY PLOT BY INEC TO DESTROY ABIA?

Today, Abia State is still in serious mourning mood after one of her illustrious sons and erstwhile Foreign Affairs, Transportation minister and immediate past Ambassador of Nigeria to Canada Chief Ojo Maduekwe died on his return from a private...

OPINION: NO MORE GO-SLOW! FLYING CARS ARE HERE!

Flying cars - they used to be the stuff of science fiction movies where every day ordinary-looking cars sprouted wings, concealed jet-engines or ducted fans took off from a road and flew away. For over eighty years inventors have been...

OPINION: HONEST ADVICE TO FORMER ANAMBRA GOVERNOR PETER OBI

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Very few articles have gladdened my heart in recent times as much as the recent one by Fredrick Ibeneme advising the immediate past Anambra State governor, Sir (Chief) Peter Gregory Obi, to reconsider his current relationship with the people...

OPINION: WAITING FOR WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME

Findings made by the joint United Nations (UN) on speedy food security evaluation in the ravaged northern Nigerian states of Adamawa, Yobe and Borno by a radical Islamic sect known as Boko Haram, alarmed Nigerian Government and its people. The...

OPINION: FAYOSE AND NIGERIA’S IMMUNITY SCANDAL

Governor Peter Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State has a solid claim to the title of politician par excellence of Nigeria’s Fourth Republic. In many ways, the man symbolizes the idiosyncrasies, texture and other pathological characteristics of the high-priced, frustrating...

OPINION: THE FOUNDATION WE LAID YESTERDAY HUNTS US TODAY

A good friend of mine Ugo Chikezie wrote that people who do critical thinking will tell you that the Nigeria we are living in today was actually designed yesterday, therefore if we do not want to live in this...

OPINION: THE PONTIFICATION OF ST BURATAI

Nigeria has an abundance of everything. Not just crude oil, solid minerals and agro-produce. Just watch the street corners and newsstands after a match and you realise this is a country with as many football coaches and technical advisers...

OPINION: NEXT FOR BUHARI: NAIRA/YUAN SWAP AND TAX REFORMS

Upon his return from a state visit to China a few months ago, song and dance were made of a business scoop, that goes by the name Naira/Yuan swap which the high powered Nigerian entourage, struck with their Chinese...

OPINION: WEAK HEAD, STRONG  CENTRE AND COLD FEET

These are interesting times to live in Nigeria. Senate President, Bukola Saraki and his Deputy, Ike Ekweremadu are hurled before the courts on criminal charges of allegedly forging the Senate Standing Rules 2015. It  raises intriguing questions; can the Senate...

OPINION: THE PROBLEM WITH DIALOGUE!

The ongoing brigandage in the Niger Delta is to be expected the moment a government shows an inclination towards dialoguing with bandits. The Federal Government of Nigeria, with its back seemingly to the wall and, contrary to all permutations,...