Opinion

OPINION: MUHAMMADU BUHARI : A GOOD PRESIDENT OF NOT?

Incumbent President Buhari has barely been in office a year and already the hawks have got their knives out for him. He can’t govern the country. He’s always flying abroad on state visits. The price of oil has plummeted, the...

OPINION: NAIRA DEPRECIATION: BLAME GOVERNORS’ FORUM

The naira has been on a steady decline for the past few months. The disparity between rates at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and that of the parallel market is as clear as the difference between day and...

OPINION: DONALD TRUMP NOT SLAVE TO IDEOLOGY… PRAGMATIC AND CONFIDENCE

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This is probably the first time in American history that a front runner for presidency in a major political party is not subscribing to core tents of his party. For where many and others have failed, Donald Trump a...

OPINION: IS NIGERIA JUDICIARY UNDER ATTACK?

Since the advent of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal administration there has been lingering controversy on how the principle of separation of power is practiced. The executive arm of government headed by president Buhari has come under increasing focus for...

OPINION: BUHARI AND THE SAFETY OF IDPS

As the Federal Government struggles to remove the remnants of the terrorist Boko Haram insurgents from the North eastern part of the country, the safety of the over two million displaced persons remains uppermost in the minds of all...

OPINION: DEVALUATION: NAIRA IS ONLY AS STRONG AS DEMAND FOR NIGERIAN MADE PRODUCTS

With the integration of international credit card services like MasterCard, Visa card, American Express card etc into Nigerian financial/banking system a few years ago, Nigerian consumers became a major part of the burgeoning army of consumers of goods and...

OPINION: NIGERIA: A GOVERNMENT IN DENIAL

My daughter’s nanny, Mama Ike, came to work recently with a mischievous smirk on her face. I couldn’t figure out what the matter was but it was apparent she was excited about something. Then, she blurted out. “Oga,” she quipped,...

OPINION: A DYING NATION, ITS TRAVELLING PRESIDENT AND THE LYING PARTY

In the run up to the 2015 presidential election, leaders and members of APC were very vocal in condemning the then president of the country, President Goodluck Jonathan, for every step he took. This even included attending churches on...

OPINION: SPEED IS GOOD, BUT ORDER IS BETTER

“Grain by grain, a loaf; stone by stone a castle”, says a Yugoslavian proverb. Haile Gebrselassie is one of the word’s legends in marathon racing. Usain Bolt is the King of the legends of sprint racing – 100m and 200m...

OPINION: THE TWO SIDES OF THE COIN

When man innovated and created the coin, he gave it two sides (following an uncontestable norm of Mother Nature on creating her perfect creatures, for example: two eyes, two ears, two nostrils, two hands, two legs, man and woman,...