Opinion

OPINION: NUPENG AND PENGASSAN: IN WHOSE INTEREST?

With the garb of labour unions and stationed to guard jealously the rights of workers in the oil industry, NUPENG and PENGASSAN have tended to act like a Frankenstein monster that is no longer under the control of anybody....

OPINION: RIVERS STATE: RIVERS OF BLOOD

The cry of the oppressed is not always the just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is— Howard Zinn. In Rivers State, the cry of the oppressed has been resonating because the garden...

OPINION: ENGAGING REFORM OF THE OIL AND GAS SECTOR

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Since the inception of the current administration, efforts have been made to reform the oil and gas sector in Nigeria with the restructuring on the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the repositioning of the corporation's staff for optimum...

OPINION: THIS “CHANGE” IS KILLING US: OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

Dear President Buhari, It is with a deep sense of humility that I write to convey to you my sincere feelings on the state of affairs in our nation and my home State, Akwa Ibom. I am doing so as...

OPINION: THE GALAXY JUST LOST ONE OF ITS BEST STARS- A TRIBUTE TO MY DEAR EGBON AMBASSADOR GBENGA OLOFIN

DEATH JUST COMMITTED ANOTHER MURDER!!! Now I'm disconsolate and distraught. Sometimes I feel as advanced as science is I feel science is still grossly deficient and limited. Or how do we explain all the advancement in space and stellar technological...

OPINION: CORRUPTION: OUR JUDGES AND EFCC NEED COMMENDATION NOT CONDEMNATION

Corruption no doubt has been seen by all Nigerians, I mean all Nigerians (over 170 million of us) with no exemption, as Nigeria’s major enemy that must be destroyed and totally wiped out from the surface of our beloved...

OPINION: RESCUING  THE NATION FROM THE SO-CALLED ‘’ENTRENCHED INTEREST’’

“Our enemies are the political profiteers, the swindlers, the man in high and low places that seek bribes and demands  ten  per cent; those that seek to keep the country divided permanently so that they can remain in office as ministers or...

OPINION: LEADERSHIP IS WHAT NIGERIA NEEDS

Leadership is about solving problems and comes to fore in times of trouble. It is not zoned. It has nothing to do with our turn. You are either a leader or you should just follow others. The economy nationally require...

OPINION: RE: APC’S POLITICISATION OF INSECURITY IN RIVERS STATE: WHEN A MONKEY’S HAND STAYS TOO LONG IN THE SOUP

I am compelled to react to Mr Oraye St. Franklyn’s latest piece on the violent political/cult killings in Rivers State captioned “APC’s politicisation of insecurity in Rivers State: Unpatriotic and bad for development” in which he tried frantically albeit unsuccessfully to absolve Governor Nyesom Wike...

AN OPEN LETTER TO (1) THE HONOURABLE SPEAKER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, ABUJA; AND (2) HONOURABLE SPEAKERS, STATE HOUSES OF ASSEMBLY IN NIGERIA

HONOURABLE SIRS AND MAS, WHY INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES SHOULD BE USED IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND STATE HOUSES OF ASSEMBLY I. OUR LANGUAGES, THE ESSENCE OF OUR BEING AND OUR IDENTITY AS NIGERIANSPhilosophers are in agreement that language is one of the most...