Opinion

OPINION: LABOUR DAY: REMEMBERING NIGERIAN WORKERS

Labour Day which is observed annually as International Workers’ Day on the 1st of May had its origin in the May 4th 1886 Hay Market massacre. The massacre was as a result of series of protest for a better...

OPINION: PREPARING FOR POST-2020 NIGERIA OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC STATURE

Year 2020 is forty-four months away. According to the 2009 perspective planning of the National Planning Commission, the Vision 20:2020, the country's GDP is projected to reach $900 billion by 2020. That would rank Nigeria as one of the...

OPINION: NEW WAGE: WHEN THE DEW CAN NO LONGER QUENCH THIRST

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Workers in Nigeria are celebrating another May Day amidst shrinking salaries, uncertainty in the market value of what they presently earn. The economy is unpredictable just as their future as workers cannot be guaranteed on account of present economic...

OPINION: THE ALI NDUME WE KNOW

It is often said that prophets are not revered at home. One man has proved this saying wrong as he is revered both at home and abroad. Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume the Leader of the 8th Senate was from...

OPINION: LIKE OBAMA, ODIA OFEIMUN TURNS TO POLITICS

Barack Obama was a phenomenon when he turned to politics. His Presidential victory seemed assured that July 24, 2008 day he stood in a street to address over 200,000 Germans in Berlin, in the “Victory Column Speech”. It was...

OPINION: WELCOME HOME: WHERE MEN ARE MEN WOMEN ARE WOMEN

As soon as Bobo landed at the airport with his family, he kissed the ground and exclaimed: Welcome back home where men are men and women are women. He could have allowed those that came to the airport to...

OPINION: THE SULTAN, NIGERIAN MUSLIMS AND THE FULANI MASSACRES

As Nigerians come to terms with the wholesale massacre and genocide against villagers in plateau, Taraba, Kaduna, Benue and Enugu (and to a lesser extent in parts of Edo and Ondo states) over the years by the Fulani (whether...

OPINION: BORNO: WHAT LIES AHEAD AFTER BOKO HARAM

The news releases from Nigeria’s military are beginning to talk about clearing out “remnants” of Boko Haram. While this in no way implies a final end of the terror group and the dislocation they caused to the people living...

OPINION: TAMING THE MONSTER IN FULANI HERDSMEN

“If you keep quiet because Fulani herdsmen are not killing your family, by the time it gets to your turn, there may be no one to talk for you.” – Reno Omokri The sleepy agrarian village of Nimbo community in...

OPINION: WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THE ENUGU KILLINGS?

There is only one thing that could be labelled as the truth in the killings of Enugu residents and that is that some people died. Beyond that all what we have are speculations. Points: How many people were killed? Any number...