Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA: MESSING WITH A BROKE NATION?

A popular hip hop song by Kanye West and Jamie Fox that topped the U.S. and global music chart some 10 years ago, has an interesting lyric " ain't messing with a broke nigga". As we would all agree, music...

OPINION:  A SOJOURNER AMONG LIARS

Professor Wole Soyinka was quoted saying his latest book is the “nastiest” that he has written so far. InterInventions: Between Defective Memory and the Public Lie- A Personal Odyssey in The Republic of Liars (Ibadan: Bookcraft, 2015, 136pp) is...

OPINION: SARAKI’S OPEN DOOR POLICY HAS CHANGED LEGISLATION IN NIGERIA

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Since the inception of Nigeria's Fourth Republic in 1999, compared to other Assemblies, the 8th Senate stands heads and shoulders above others in many regards. Senate President, Bukola Saraki, well known for understanding the need to engage the electorate and...

OPINION: NIGERIA AND THE TRIUMPH OF POLITICS

The Managing Director of Julius Berger Nigeria Limited, Detlev Lubasach, said that Nigeria's current financial struggles may lead to massive job cuts in the country’s construction sector. He also said that on the account of huge debts owed his company...

OPINION: MONETIZATION OF NONPERFORMING ASSETS OF NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA, PANACEA TO REVIVING NIGERIA’S RECESSION-BOUND ECONOMY

I am not questioning the validity or the intent of BVN Program that just ended on October 31st 2015, although I was recently informed that a new date of January 1st 2016 to accommodate Nigerians in Diaspora has been established,...

OPINION: NPC: INGREDIENTS FOR AN INCONTROVERTIBLE CENSUS

President Muhammadu Buhari became Nigeria's democratically inaugurated President on May 29th 2015. Amidst a mamoth crowds of admirers and supporters this brand new democratic President gave a very passionate and profoundly elucidating remarks which still lingers in the memories...

OPINION: SO NIGERIA IS FINALLY BROKE EH

Wow! So Nigeria finally succumbed after all the millions, billions and trillions disfarahan? We have been asked for several years: how much money is in that Country when so much keeps on disappearing? We wish we know how much...

OPINION: SENATE MINISTERIAL CLEARANCE: TRICK OR TREAT?

After nearly four months of Nigerians anxiously waiting for President Muhamadu Buhari to name his cabinet, it took the 8th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria about three weeks to scrutinise the list of '36 wisemen' whom Mr....

OPINION: WHAT EXACTLY COULD THE NIGERIAN PERSONALITY MEAN?

An America based consultant on matters of leadership, management, and psychology, Dr. Ozodi Osuji recently postulated that many Nigerians have Antisocial Personality Disorder? In other words, antisocial personality disorder which is best understood within the context of clinical and diagnostic...

OPINION: IN SEARCH OF NIGERIA’S “CREDIBLE” POLITICIANS

If you are in Nigeria and you have not done this before, try and do it right away. Just open a Nigerian newspaper near you. Go through its pages to find out how many people were described in that...