Opinion

OPINION: APC’S SICKENING OBSESSION WITH RIVERS STATE

It is sad that the National Headquarters of the All Progressives Congress, APC, fondly called All Promises Cancelled by her diminishing disappointed supporters is unrepentant in its ungodly and demented pecuniary obsession with Rivers State. Once a failed politician...

OPINION: OKOROCHA, NDI IMO AND THE LIMIT OF PROPAGANDA

"When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic."  Dresden James Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of...

OPINION: BUHARI: IF WE WERE TRULY IN A DEMOCRACY

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Democracy! They say you are the government of the people, by the people and for the people; the government that is strictly built on the rule of law and adherence to the very minute tenet of the nation’s constitution....

OPINION: LET’S FACE THE ISSUES:  ENOUGH OF INSULTS

On February 20, 2016, at a press briefing, Nigeria’s Minister for Finance, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, reportedly made an error in arithmetic. While giving a report on the findings of auditors on various boards in the country, she accused an examination...

OPINION: HOW PRESIDENT BUHARI CAN CATCH THE FALLING DAGGER, SAFELY

President Muhammadu Buhari has so much political capital, he can do no wrong. At least not yet, almost a year into his “extended stay” political honeymoon. But his chest of ‘monetary capital’ is another story. With crude oil –...

OPINION: APC’S POLITICISATION OF INSECURITY IN RIVERS STATE: UNPATRIOTIC AND BAD FOR DEVELOPMENT 

A lot has been said about the state of 'insecurity' in Rivers State with heightened efforts by elements within the All Progressives Congress (APC) to promote the notion that they are being persecuted in order to achieve key objectives...

OPINION:WOMEN PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS AND DECISION MAKING POSITION IN NIGERIA

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION AT STAKEHOLDERS CONSULTATIVE FORUM IN NIGERIA TO MARK THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AT THE NATIONAL WOMEN DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, ABUJA ON 8TH MARCH, 2016. INTRODUCTION It has been established that the development of any country requires the...

OPINION: FULANI CROSS-COUNTRY CATTLE GRAZING MENACE

Cattle grazing should not be a cross country menace across West Africa with Fulani’s philosophy that only God owns land. No ethnic group does in this century; because they only provide a marginal amount of Africa’s meat supply. It...

OPINION: ESE ORURU’S MIRROR

I received a plaintive note last week from a young man who seemed rather shocked that I had not written about Nigeria’s scandal of the moment—the harrowing story of a 14-year old girl named Ese Rita Oruru, abducted from...

OPINION: MAGNUS ABE: A DESPERATE POLITICIAN WITHOUT INTEGRITY

Propaganda and hoodwinking is known to be the stock in trade of members of APC. This unusual talent, yes I call it a talent is not in short supply particularly with the APC in Rivers State. It therefore came...