Opinion

OPINION: APC AND THE POLITICS OF DEMAGOGUERY IN NIGERIA

There are two forms of extremism that pose the greatest existential threat to Nigeria today. There is the religious extremism of Boko Haram which has ravaged the North East of the country, and continues to spread fear and terror across...

OPINION: THERE WAS NO COUP ON JANUARY 15, 1966

This January was filled with activities and reminiscence of what officially was said to be the fiftieth commemoration of the first coup in the country; the five Majors coup of January 15, 1966. There were speeches and the newspapers...

OPINION: ABOLISH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY IT’S A SYNDICATE SCAM!

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“Moribund society creates its own morbid gravediggers. Revolt against injustice is not honorable but it is imperative.” - Karl Max The indictment letter written to the National Assembly by the former President Olusegun Obasanjo triggers a fresh riot of words...

OPINION: DOMESTICATING INTERNATIONAL TREATIES IN NIGERIA

International treaties will continue to be mere documents in countries who are signatories to them if their significance is not felt by the people in those countries. It is not enough for a sovereign state to ratify a treaty...

OPINION: 2016 BUDGET: IS PRESIDENT BUHARI BLACKMAILING THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY?

The event concerning the Nigeria 2016 budget and its discrepancies has crowded the internet space in the past few weeks. Nigerians both locally and in diaspora have been throwing in questions especially aiming at this President Buhari’s Administration on why...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S ECONOMY: AWAKENING THE SNORING GIANT

On January 28th, 2016 Channels Television aired a community programme where a man in Benin, Edo State with little education and has never left the shores of Nigeria was able to build an operational unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly...

OPINION: WHY WE VOTED BUHARI

In the book "A Little Bit of Everything For Dummies" Chapter 7 talks about Leadership, I would use the introduction copiously to drive home this admonition. Leadership begins with the willingness to accept responsibility. But to what end? Does responsibility...

OPINION: THAT BELLO MAY BAIL OUT KOGI STATE

After the euphoria that greeted his emergence and eventual inauguration as the Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Adoza Bello is gradually settling down to the business of governing Kogi state. There is no doubt that Nigeria's  youngest Governor is...

OPINION: WHEN POLITICS ENTERS THE CITADELS 

The decision of the present administration to sack all the vice chancellors of 12 federal universities that were established by the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan is generating ripples and rightly so. Even angrier reactions are trailing the...

OPINION: AMENDMENT OF PROCUREMENT ACT: USING MADE IN NIGERIA TO JUMP START THE ECONOMY

With the continuous fall in the value of the Naira against other currencies in the world market, it is gradually becoming imperative for Nigerians to come to the realization that it is time to focus on patronizing locally manufactured...