Opinion

OPINION: MALAMI: DOING JUSTICE TO JUSTICE MINISTRY

Mr. Mohammed Bello Adoke (SAN) and a holder of the national title of office of the order of the Niger which ranks as one amongst the tops in national roll of honors has served Nigeria creditably for nearly five...

OPINION: SUPER MINISTERS AND OTHER STORIES

“Have you congratulated our new Ministers?” “I am still thinking about it, actually. I don’t know whether to congratulate them or to commiserate or to pity some of them. They have merged Ministries that need not be merged. Some Perm...

OPINION: AN SOS TO ALL THE NEW 36 MINISTERS

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Congratulations to all the Nigerian compatriots who have finally become ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria under the most wonderful, tactful, dynamic, intellectual and sagacious African president of our contemporary times, President Muhammadu Buhari. I must say that...

OPINION: THE DOUBLE SPEAK OF SENATOR MARAFA

“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.” - Aesop Say what you want to say about Kabiru Marafa, the distinguished Senator...

OPINION: REVISITING THE USE OF CARD READER IN THE 2015 ELECTIONS

“Identification of election technology that meets the public acceptance is as important as the election itself” Burmester & Magkos, 2003 (Towards Secure and Practical E-Elections in the New Era) The crux of this article was written a few weeks before...

OPINION: BIAFRA HAS COME TO STAY

Biafra is just one of the separatist movements scattered around the globe. Most people do not know that there is an autonomist and secessionist movement in the United State of America. In the hours after president Barrack Obama was...

OPINION: THE BUHARI ECONOMIC POLICY DIRECTION THAT EXCITES ME

I have heard and I have read, many people say that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari does not have an economic direction. That this is the reason why things are getting bad in the country. My submission is...

OPINION: JONATHAN: PDP AND DOKPESI’S MISPLACED APOLOGY

The recent apology by the chairman of PDP’s National Conference Planning Committee, High Chief Aleogho Raymond Dokpesi , for what he considers perceived mistakes of the People’s Democratic Party in its last 16 years of leading Nigeria and particularly...

OPINION:  BVN AND NIGERIA’S DATA MANAGEMENT MALAISE

The importance of Bank Verification Number (BVN) cannot be over-emphasized. It is however important to alert banks in Nigeria on the need to pay keen attention if we must avoid the usual impunity involved in data management and subsequent...

OPINION: A CONDUCIVE GEOPOLITICAL ENVIRONMENT FOR ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN PEACE

The upheaval sweeping the Middle East suggests that it will be extraordinarily difficult if not impossible to resume the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and reach a successful outcome. On the contrary, because of the prevailing political conditions and the continuing rise...