Opinion

OPINION: ARISE O’ CORPER SHUN

It's Sunday and I am watching the collation of results for the concluded Kogi state gubernatorial elections, while many where concerned with whether the broom or umbrella was heading to the Government House, I was concerned like my friend...

OPINION: BANKS AND THE SIEGE ON DELINQUENT CREDITORS

Nestled around the serene atmosphere of the waterfront on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, is Protea Hotel, Westwood, where an array of credit administrators were huddled together discussing the imminent publication of the names of those that banks have classified...

OPINION: LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE DEATH OF KOGI STATE APC GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE

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The sudden death of Prince Abubakar Audu, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kogi State, on Sunday, 22nd November, 2015 has undoubtedly ignited a constitutional crisis. The tragic news which was first published by Sahara...

OPINION: DEATH, AN INCONCLUSIVE ELECTION AND THE LAW

If, as is likely, Prince Abubakar Audu, the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in the ongoing Kogi election has passed on, then a legal question to be decided by INEC and the courts is unquestionably before us, because the...

OPINION: ISSUES WITH NIGERIA’S GREEN GASOLINE PLAN

In 2008 when the climate change debate took center stage, the discovery of a plant known as Jathropha as an alternative to fossil fuels produced ripples of excitement within the global environment community.  What made the discovery of the...

OPINION: GOV UDOM EMMANUEL’S ECONOMIC STRIDES & THE APC MISADVENTURISM.

I read a flurry of sound bites by the manufacturers-in-chief of falsehood in Akwa Ibom State, the APC in their recent faux pas, deliberately trying to spew their hate toxins in order to heap confusion and profound mischief in...

OPINION: SENATE COMMITTEE: HAS LAWAN CONCEDED DEFEAT?

The history of the 8th Senate is never complete without the mention of the intrigues that happened in the name of the famous anointed man of the party, a second-term Senator representing Yobe North constituency, Senator Ahmed Ibrahim Lawan...

OPINION: MIDDLE EAST AND THE REST OF THE WORLD, ANY HOPE?

The ugly events in Paris France is the most current reminder that nobody is safe anywhere in the world; that death lurks in football stadia, hides in bar;, is not far from any street corner; or even in the...

OPINION: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS ARE IN SYNC WITH AFRICA’S PRIORITIES

Newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals could transform the continent On 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development agenda known as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, prominent personalities in world politics, social activism, business and entertainment...

OPINION: 2019: RESCUING PDP FROM THE VULTURES

The defeat of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the general election early this year has left the party in a most uncertain situation.  Such is the uncertainty that all manner of emergency leaders, attention seekers, carpet baggers and new...