Opinion

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...

OPINION: DON’T CALL ME CAIT…!

As far as we Africans are concerned, there’s no reason why a man who has had a wife and children would ever want to be a woman. Such thoughts would only exist in the fertile imaginations of an African...

OPINION: NIGERIAN POPULATION AND HUMAN RIGHT

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Original English Language Speakers may have several semantic relationships with most of us who are indigenous Africans especially here in Nigeria especially in terms of similarity in proverbs and idiomatic expressions. The English have a particular saying that 'there is...

OPINION: SARAKI: LOYALTY ON TRIAL

Loyalty is a key ingredient in power. It is an ingredient that requires believers in a cause, institution or person to stay true to the cause at all times by thinking, talking, walking and working for the realisation and...

OPINION: MINISTERIAL SCREENING AND THE DANCE OF SHAME

After all the drama characterising the screening of those who are to work with President Muhammadu Buhari as ministers, the Nigerian senate in performing its constitutionally-assigned duty cleared all those nominated. Though, legally speaking, we might conclude it is...

OPINION: IN IMO STATE: THE EGYPTIANS WE SEE, WE SHALL SEE THEM NO MORE

The Egyptians we see in Imo state, we shall see them no more because the Moses of our time, the Field Marshal of Ndi Imo, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha,  who led other troops and rescued Nigeria from 16 years...

OPINION: THE BUHARI ADMINISTRATION AND WAR AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA

INTRODUCTION Over the years, several scholars, development workers, activists, politicians, international organizations, public affairs commentators and the general public have given attention to the problem of corruption and its attendant effects on society. The problem is not new to humankind...

OPINION: MODEST PROPOSALS ON CORRUPTION

Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with a young man who accused me of exhibiting “sentiments” and “self-interest” in my column titled “Buhari and the Syndrome of Sameness”. After I repeatedly challenged the guy to...

OPINION: #MINISTERIALSCREENING: WHAT SARAKI TAUGHT THE NATION

The Screening of Ministerial Nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari to the upper chamber of the National Assembly has come and gone but therein lies important lessons we must carry away from the entire process. The names of the...

OPINION: MR. PRESIDENT, NIGERIA IS BROKE, SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

The Presidency in its rejoinder to a recent statement by the PDP upbraided its spokesman Mr. Olisa Metuh for “unjustly denigrating the President who continues to strive with all his might to alleviate and reverse the harm done to...