Opinion

OPINION: ALAKYO THREE YEARS AFTER: FOR GOD AND COUNTRY BUT FORGOTTEN BY COUNTRY

Cultists of Ombatse recorded the highest medal in bestiality when they used deep African science to ambush Nigerian security operatives. The outcome of the encounter between the cultists and Nigerian security operatives was the cold- blooded massacre of over...

OPINION: OYA MAKE WE DIVIDE NIGERIA?

We grab a dog with the hands and it escapes; thereafter we beckon it with two fingers. (If both hands cannot detain a dog, two fingers from a distance will not bring it to where it escaped from.) As a...

OPINION: LUCY KIBAKI’S DEATH: AFRICA’S MOST VIOLENT FIRST LADY 

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Lucy Muthoni Kibaki was buried yesterday, 9.12 am, Nigerian time, in Othaya, Njeri County, Kenya in the presence of about 300 guests and family members, after a requiem mass attended by over 3, 000 dignitaries and 20, 000 mourners....

OPINION:  GENERAL OVERVIEW OF OBSERVED TREND OF GOVERNMENT EFFORTS ON ANTI-CORRUTION FROM CSOs PERSPECTIVE

PRESENTATION AT THE NIGERIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION SUMMIT ORGANISED BY THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF JUSTICE IN COLLABORATION WITH THE OPEN SOCIETY FOR WEST AFRICA (OSIWA) HELD AT TRANSCORP HILTON HOTEL ON 5TH MAY, 2016. INTRODUCTION Over the years, several scholars, development workers, activists,...

OPINION: DONALD TRUMP: IN POLITICS, BULLSHIT WORKS

Do you remember the popular wise crack: Money Talks, Bullshit Works? There is no better factor to attribute Donald Trump's rise to being the presumptive presidential candidate of the Grand Old Party, GOP in the USA, than Bullshit. With a hefty...

OPINION: ENCOURAGING THE CODE OF CONDUCT IN BUSINESS AND PROFESSION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Being an address delivered at Rotary International District 9125 Conference, Abuja 2016 Protocol I am at once delighted and humbled to have been afforded the honour to address this august congregation- a gathering of men and women of no mean statures;...

OPINION: OUR SISTER CALLED MOSES

Our sister, Araminta Ross who became famous as Harriet Tubman, was born a slave in Maryland, United States (US) in 1820. She lived the American nightmare but decided at 29 to change her life of programmed servitude to that...

OPINION: HERDSMEN ATTACKS: WHEN REASON GOES ON BREAK

We are again at crossroads as a nation with the farmers/herders clashes being the latest test facing us as a people. We are daily confronted with gory pictures coming from Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau most recently Enugu state while other...

OPINION: EVIDENCE OF MINORITY GENERAL’S PERSECUTION INSTEAD OF PROSECUTION

He spent 38 years, 6 months, 10 days in his career and has risen to the highest position in the Nigerian Military. Air Chief Marshal Alexander Sabundu Badeh, former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) is a native of Vimtim, in...

OPINION: OUR SECURITY AGENTS, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, AND ABIA’S APPROACH TO CHECKING PASTORAL CONFLICTS

It may not be out of place to suggest here that our security agents are contributing negatively to the fragile security situation in the country. This suggestion is basically informed by the ugly incident that took place in Aba...