Opinion

OPINION: RESTRUCTURING NIGERIA: A CALL FOR EIGHT REGIONS

PLEASE NOTE: This write-up was (first) written on 20th April, 2000 and was personally sent to National Newspapers in Nigeria then.   The military came into power in Nigeria in 1966 and by the time they left the political scene in...

OPINION: JUSTICE FOR THE LIVING, JUSTICE FOR THE DEAD

Human history is replete with instances of the people getting fed up with official policies and taking on the government. Monday January 9, 2012 was one of those days when the Nigerian people in anger, decided to shut down...

OPINION: EL-ZAKZAKY, RELIGION AND THE NIGERIAN STATE

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So much has been said about the December 12 confrontation between the Nigerian Army and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria led by Sheik Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Shia in Nigeria. I guess the point has...

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

“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...