Opinion

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

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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,...

OPINION: WHY NIGERIA NEEDS A REBOOT

Is the country better off today as it was eight, nine months ago when a well respected, self-disciplined and fearless man in the name of Muhammadu Buhari, walked into the Aso Villa and vowed to work tirelessly for his...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S FRSC AND HER PENURIOUS N58M MEDIA BUDGET

In Nigeria, road safety is still a very complicated, highly misunderstood and an under addressed issue. The reasons are very many but they all hang on a long chain of non appreciation of the magnitude of the problem as...

OPINION: REFLECTIONS ON FAYOSE’S ‘STOMACH INFRASTRUCTURE’

When Fayose defeated Fayemi in the Ekiti State Governorship election in 2014, I took it personal. Apart from a chance meeting with Kayode Fayemi in London around 1998/1999 when he was still the boss of the Centre for Democracy...

OPINION: THE TEN MODERN TENETS OF DEMOCRACY

According to The Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary, Tenet means: One of the principles or beliefs that a theory or larger sets of beliefs is based on. Indeed, it is the basics, and the central role of a theory or...

OPINION: AKWA IBOM GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION AND  SUPREME COURT OF ABETTORS OF  INJUSTICE

The recent ruling of seven-man panel of Supreme Court Justices which upheld the election of PDP's Udom Emmanuel as Akwa Ibom governor drew a flurry of new, and often critical, scrutiny of the nation's highest court. Critics are more concerned...

OPINION: A PLEA FOR REASON: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU

Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu, I write this letter to you with a heavy heart as it pains me deeply to see the beautiful dream of a strong and proud Israel, the country that was expected to embrace what is virtuous,...

OPINION: [TRIBUTE] LEONARD NNAMDI STANLEY EKEH: THE LION @60

In the 53rd day of the year 1956 in the Gregorian calendar, a Lion was born at Ubomiri, Mbaitoli Local Government Area (LGA) of Imo State to Chief and Mrs. Ebenezer Ekeh of blessed memories and his name is...