Opinion

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI’S FAILURE TO DECLARE HIS ASSETS PUBLICLY IS TREACHEROUS AND HEART BREAKING

Lately, the media, especially the social media, has been inundated with commentaries and debates on the secret declaration of assets by President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo contrary to the former's pre-election promise to do so...

OPINION: CHIEF GODSWILL AKPABIO: ODYSSEY OF A ROLE MODEL

Four friends met in a social gathering and decided to introduce themselves with biblical references. The first person said his name was David but that he was not a King. The second said he was Paul by name but...

OPINION: 2015 ELECTION AND THE MISAPPROPRIATION OF HISTORY

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The 2015 election has come and gone, yet leaves plenty in the mouth to talk about. There is no doubt that the recent national election will continue to be debated by scholars of history, sociologists, political scientists, international relations...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI, ACCOUNTABILITY AND CREATIVITY FOR PROSPERITY

On May 29, 2015 at the Eagle Square in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as the fifth executive President of the sixth Federal Republic of Nigeria. I watched with tears as this gentle and incorruptible man spoke...

OPINION: FIRM FOUNDATION FOR THE REVIVAL OF RIVERS STATE

Without doubt, the journey to reclaim Rivers State for the good people of the state was tough and the laden with several landmines. Of all the governors sworn in on May 29, 2015, that of Nyesom Ezenwo Wike (...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

With a sense of awe and trepidation I watched the heart-breaking operations to rescue 33 miners trapped approximately half a mile underground in the main ramp into the San Esteban mine in Northern Chile in August 5 2010. I...

OPINION: THIS HOUSE HAS FALLEN

The title of this piece, "This House Has Fallen", was the title of Karl Maier's book, a USA journalist, written in 2000 about the chronicles of a nation (Nigeria) on the verge of collapse that has survived series of...

OPINION: BUHARI’S REMEDY TO THE FUEL SUBSIDY QUAGMIRE

By the time this piece is published, Nigeria should already be basking in the invigorating glow and promise of a new Administration under President Muhammadu Buhari. When coupled with the recent election of Nigeria’s former Agriculture Minister, Dr. Adewunmi...

OPINION: AS BUHARI’S ADMINISTRATION KICKS OFF

Another chapter has been opened in the history of Nigeria with the swearing-in of Muhammadu Buhari as the 4th elected President in the current democratic dispensation entrenched in 1999, when General Abdulsalam Abubakar (Retd) successfully handed over power to...

OPINION: AKWA IBOM STATE HAS NO LEGITIMATE GOVERNOR, WHAT BUHARI NEEDS TO DO URGENTLY

On Friday May 29, 2015, Nigeria recorded another historic milestone in her march towards democratic consolidation and political maturity following the successful and momentous transition from a democratically elected dispensation to another democratically elected dispensation both at the Federal...