Opinion

OPINION: IS BUHARI’S ADMINISTRATION DISAPPOINTING YET?

I am no longer sure of what should anger me anymore when it comes to governance in Nigeria. The action and inaction of former President Jonathan's government that almost brought Nigeria to her knees, promoted corruption and made everywhere...

OPINION: THE FAYEMI MODEL FOR BUDGET TRANSPARENCY

The Annual Budget is the most effective instrument for the formulation, implementation and execution of government’s plans and programmes.  By extension, it is a means by which resources available to government within a financial year are estimated and allocated...

OPINION: BAYELSA GUBER POLL: OF FAKE SECURITY MEN AND THE CONSTITUTION

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Lately there has been isolated breeches of the peace in Bayelsa State arising from heightened political activities towards the December 5 gubernatorial elections in the State. The last report was of members of a political party taking laws into...

OPINION: IN RIVERS STATE, THE LIGHT OF PEACE SHINES

The Holy Bible in John 1: 5 declared : "And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." That is the case of Rivers State where the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, represents light and the APC...

OPINION: $2BN ARMS DEAL: LOOT RECOVERY OR BRUTE GUNNERY

Since the issue of the alleged $2bn loot recovery spree by the Buhari-led administration came to the fore, Nigerians have been grossly entertained by the principal actors in the macabre dance of “nollywood” actions “based on true life stories”...

OPINION: SUGABELLY, RAPE AND AUDU’S SONS

You probably don’t know Sugabelly. I don’t know her either. But it is the twitter handle of a Nigerian lady: @sugabelly, who in the wake of the death of former Governor Abubakar Audu of Kogi State felt the urge...

OPINION: PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI IS GETTING CLOSER TO ACCOMPLISHING HIS BIAFRAN GOALS

It is clear to all and sundry that President Buhari is not satisfied with the way the Biafra/Nigeria war ended. He is particularly incensed at the rather quick recovery of Biafrans from the war’s hardship and is offended that...

OPINION: EATING OUR PONMO YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement that so closely captures one’s thinking about an issue. When that happens, one is freed from the burden of finding one’s own words to articulate the issue in question.   That was...

OPINION: ABANDONING THE QUARTET IN FAVOR OF THE ARAB PEACE INITIATIVE

During several meetings I recently had with EU officials in Brussels, they argued that it is time to revive the Middle East Quartet, which consists of the US, EU, Russia, and the UN, to resurrect the Israeli-Palestinian peace process....

OPINION: ONE PARTY STATE LOADING: THE APC GAME PLAN

A few days after the 1999 Presidential Election, then Comrade Adams Oshiomhole led a delegation of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to Ota, Ogun State to congratulate the winner of that election. While hosting the NLC team then President-Elect,...