Opinion

OPINION: RESTRUCTURE NIGERIA, TO SAVE IT

No one should be surprised by the loud and widespread support that has attended the latest call by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that Nigeria needs to be restructured. In his words, “our current structure and the practices it...

OPINION: WHO WANTS OUR PRESIDENT DEAD?

What started as a big joke suddenly became a reality. In a desperate bid to stop the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari the heat of the 2015 presidential election, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti state Governor, did the unthinkable....

OPINION: LET US WORK OUT WAYS TO PEACE

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The tension in the Niger Delta and indeed Nigeria must not be allowed to escalate further. This is time for dialogue. Let all parties agree to sit at the table and resolve those issues considered hitherto to be no...

OPINION: BUHARI, FAYOSE, WIKE, TRAVEL BANS AND OTHER EXPENSIVE JOKES

When news broke out late last week that President Muhammadu Buhari had allegedly placed travel bans on two governors of the opposition party, PDP, in the persons of governors Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State and Nyesom Wike of Rivers...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI’S LEADERSHIP: LOOKING BEYOND HEADLINES

As president Muhamadu Buhari and the APC mark one year in office, the media have been full of screaming headlines in praise or denunciation of the leadership style and its positive or negative impact on the lives of Nigerians. To...

OPINION: WILL AMERICA SURVIVE A TRUMP ADMINISTRATION?

At his last and final White House Correspondents’ Dinner, President Obama quipped that “the end of the republic never looked better.” With Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee, and Hillary Clinton beginning to steadily lose ground to him in...

OPINION: BUHARI AND THE NIGER DELTA

On Thursday morning news broke that President Buhari had cancelled his trip to Ogoni due to threat to his life from the Niger Delta Avengers. This is a very wrong move as the President must have handed over the...

OPINION: BUHARI AND THE TRAGEDY OF POLITICS!

"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture...

OPINION: BUHARI @ 1: THE COUNTRY IS HARD

The quality of life in Nigeria is nothing to write home about. Poverty has become a common denominator as most Nigerians now swim in the scary waters of hopelessness. No other title can better capture what the average Nigerian...

OPINION: WARS BUHARI MUST WIN

When Nigerians trooped out over a year ago in their millions to elect president Muhammadu Buhari, many had in mind a man that would rescue the soul of the country from the lovers of fifthly lucre and financial terrorists...