Opinion

OPINION: SAUDI ARABIA—A KINGDOM IN RETREAT

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which was once at the front and center of the Arab world and a significant player on the global stage due to its oil riches, has been steadily losing its regional influence and prominent...

OPINION: NOTE TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: NIGERIA IS A SOVEREIGN NATION

Typically, Amnesty International (AI) has issued a release calling for thorough investigation on the incident of the Army/Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) that took place in December 2015. Its press release is largely based on presentations at the Judicial...

OPINION: JUSTICES KAFARATI, AUTA EXAMPLES OF VIOLENT IMMORALITY, HOW MUCH MORE CAN WE TAKE?

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The examples of Justices Abdul Kafarati and Ibrahim Auta are grisly flashback to the scenes of Sodom and Gomorrah. April 11, 2016, SaharaReporters lead story headlined “Billionaire Judge, In Turnaround, Now To Give Saraki Judgement  on Thursday” “Justice Abdul...

OPINION: BETWEEN QUOTA AND FEDERAL CHARACTER PRINCIPLE

This reflection is a continuation of my last week’s piece on how to re-engineer our politics to make it less anarchic and more oriented towards nation-building. As I argued, there is pervasive fear that the ethnic group/region that wins...

 OPINION: NATIONAL HIDE-AND-SEEK CHAMPIONS OF NIGERIA

I am a member of the generation whose roads were rough and tough according to Tai Solarin, I am part of that generation that Wole Soyinka called lost. I am part of that generation that saw the death of...

OPINION: DISSECTING ‎THE VENOM FROM IGBOKWE AND THE LAGOS MAFIA

Recently, my colleague and Publicity Secretary of All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, Mr. Joe Igbokwe wrote an op-ed article titled - What is on Senator Saraki's Mind? In the article, he had wondered what is giving the Senate...

OPINION: IT IS TIME FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO CHANGE STRATEGIES

The failure of the most recent Republican Revolution is now manifest to every American and world leaders except for the current leadership of GOP, but even they have may doubts as expressed by their body language regarding the remaining...

OPINION: NIGERIA: ANY DEVELOPMENT THAT QUARANTINES MAN IS NO DEVELOPMENT

Actually this is a quote: “Any development that quarantines man is no development”. Indeed, it was a sing-song quote of Prof. Eddy Egbo, whenever he was lecturing us in our undergraduate days in the early 1990s (1991 if I...

OPINION: SARAKI’S TRIAL: BY HOOK OR BY CROOK?

To say that a large percentage of socially and politically conscious Nigerians have followed keenly the continued persecution of the President of the 8th Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, for simply defying the odds in clinching the highly coveted position...

OPINION: NEW LIFE TO RSUST

From the very day he was sworn in as Governor of Rivers State on May 29, 2015, Governor Wike ensured that the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, RSUST, received a breadth of new life. Governor Wike in...