Opinion

OPINION: JUSTIN TRUDEAU, CANADA ELECTIONS AND THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE

I have been inundate with comments on the recently concluded elections in Canada that saw 43 years old, and leader of the Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau emerging as the next Prime Minister of Canada. Having been on ground and actively involved across different platforms...

OPINION: EDWIN CLARK, OKONJO IWEALA, ODUAH, AKPABIO AND THE WAILING WAILERS

For those who have sentenced themselves to inconsolable wailing since Presudent Buhari and APC defeated former President Jonathan and the PDP in the epic, March 28 presidential election, the last few weeks were like weeks of second death. For those who...

OPINION: SENATOR BUKOLA SARAKI AND BOLA TINUBU

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The well publicised denial of Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, APC’s godfather, kingmaker and supremo, of having anything to do with a purported conspiracy between him and the president of the Senate, Dr Bukola Saraki, against President Buhari for which...

OPINION: VERDICT – IF SARAKI CAN PRESIDE, THEN AMAECHI SHOULD PASS – HALT THE CHARADE AGAINST ROTIMI AMAECHI

The orchestrated delay by the Senate to confirm the ministerial nomination of Rotimi Amaechi is a brazen display of what happens when open and honest process is brushed aside so that the wiles of backroom and vengeful politics may...

OPINION: MR PRESIDENT, THE HONEYMOON IS OVER! ARE YOU THE CHANGE WE SEEK, OR DO WE LOOK FOR ANOTHER?

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blessed: The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”   – Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man   Nigerians are generally a hardy people- resilient...

OPINION: BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE

It was always a question of when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would violently erupt once again, which only proves that, contrary to the prevailing views among a multitude of Israelis, no Israeli government can manage the occupation indefinitely. The current...

OPINION: GANG-RAPING AND MURDER OF CHIBOK CHRISTIAN GIRLS-OBAMA, HOLLANDE, MERKEL , PUTIN MUST ACT FAST

This passionate plea to world leaders, including Obama, Hollande, Merkel, Putin, Jinping, Ban Ki Moon to help Nigeria's President Buhari and his military to rescue the Chibok girls is necessary because the Nigeria's military through its Chief of Defense...

OPINION: ALAMIEYESEIGHA: WHEN THE MAN IN THE MIRROR IS NOT YOU

"Alamieyesiegha became the victim of great hypocrisy masquerading as nationalism and anti-corruption fight." The above quote is excerpted from a statement by James Onanefe Ibori, the jailbird former governor of Delta state on the death of his chummy buddy and...

OPINION: HONEYMOONIZATION AND THE DEATH OF EXPRESSION

Don’t tell me you did not miss the days when we took turn to pass insults on the maladministration of the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration, the days when you came online and read various versions of vituperation and backlashes against...

OPINION: COUP D’ETAT GUARANTEED FROM IBB & TINUBU WITHOUT SURVEILLANCE

If Buhari ever suffered another coup d’état after the so-called palace coup that overthrew him and Idiagbon, Sango the God of Thunder will punish him severely. No angel will allow him into other life for being complacent in his...