Opinion

OPINION: WHY OMERI MUST NOT CONTAMINATE THE CHANGE AGENDA

On March 23, 2011, Mike Omeri was fired as the Director of Research and Strategy of the Goodluck/Sambo 2011 campaign. At that time, the development was hailed as one of the few things the then President Goodluck Jonathan got...

OPINION: A NOTE TO THE UMMAH LEADERSHIP

Overpowered by the urge not to live like an unconcerned faithful in Islam, it is with utmost humility and compassion that this sermon is delivered as a Save Our Soul (SOS) generally to the Muslims in their majority areas...

OPINION: IN MY NORTH, POVERTY IS NEITHER SHI’ITES NOR SUNNI

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“When a people have suffered for too long, they will drink fairytales on fairylands with insatiable gullibility." (Hamilton Ayuk) So my admonition this week dwells with a section of Nigeria--the North and it is a do-no-favors essay, call it the...

OPINION: MY GLITCH WITH PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as it regards the safety of life and property of the Nigerian people, is clear. And this falls under the enclave of the Commander in Chief, in our case, President Muhammadu...

OPINION: BUILDING NEW CSO MINDSET FOR ADVOCACY

The STAR - System for Transformation and Result – methodology of measuring impact is a change process and a tool suite that seeks to promote sustainable organizational development. It also seeks to address elements of the complex environments in...

OPINION: MASSACRES IN THE LAND, THE IDIOCY OF “CHANGE” AND THE CONSPIRACY OF WATCHDOGS

With the recent and continued killing of innocent, harmless, armless, hapless and helpless Nigerians by the Buhari administration, Nigerians are beginning to wonder if there was any real meaning in the “Change” mantra of the ruling party, APC. This...

OPINION: DICKSON’S INQUISITION: SIMPLY UNACCEPTABLE!

Like the much maligned Inquisition in history, which led to the suppression of the truth and the death of those who stood for religious, scientific and political tolerance in most parts of Europe in the Medieval Age, the so-called...

OPINION: LIZARD BRAIN, FISH BRAIN

In my crawls at the back of British taxis in London a fortnight ago, the radio stations never seemed tired wailing about United States (US) Republican presidential front runner, Donald Trump. In his latest verbal diarrhea, he had advocated...

OPINION: WHY HISTORY SHOULD BE TAUGHT

There is never a scarcity of shocking events, revelations, encounters and experiences in the course of the interesting times we seem destined to live in. But nothing can perhaps be more shocking than a recent encounter I had with...

OPINION: NIGERIA: CASTRATION CAN CHECK RAPE

For almost three decades of my active career as a media and human rights practitioner, I have obviously lost count of the statistical information/data about violent sexual molestation and rape of Women and younger female children by male adults...