Opinion

OPINION: LACKING PROPER CRISIS NEGOTIATION BURUJI KASHAMU COULD KILL HIMSELF

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has since Saturday reportedly surrounded Buruji Kashamu’s home in Lagos, Nigeria, thereby confining him to his residence pending his appearance in court in the coming hours. From the very moment President Goodluck Jonathan...

OPINION: THE PATRIOTS AND THE TASK OF REINVENTING PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY

In propounding Separation of Power as a political philosophy, late French Philosopher, Baron de Montesquieu stated that for there to be checks and balances as well as accountability in governance; government powers should not be fussed or be concentrated...

OPINION: A CASE FOR INDEPENDENCE FOR MY PEOPLES OF THE LOWER NIGER

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I am a Social Advocate and consequently, a freedom fighter on the side of my people whose destinies, lands and assets were forcefully taken over by the colonial expedition of British imperialism and made to service a parasitic union...

OPINION: WILL PRESIDENT BUHARI FIGHT THE FRN/ ABACHA FAMILY AGREEMENT?

Transparency and accountability has remained a major problem besetting successive governments in Nigeria. For nearly four decades, the accounts of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, were not audited. But public outcry changed all of that, to the...

OPINION: THEY PLEAD FOR CLEMENCY OR BAIL BARGAINING

To err is human, to forgive divine From “An Essay on Criticism”, by Alexander Pope Debt, debt everywhere; should we forgive or bargain? From the writer The truth is that it is only God the Almighty who does not make a mistake and...

OPINION: THE FILTH AND CORRUPTION IN DELTA CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION

On Thursday, May 21, Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan,slammed a suspension order on the State Chairman of the state Civil Service Commission, Emmanuel Tetsola, and members of the commission. The Governor said the Chairman and his commissioners had...

OPINION: COMRADES OR OPPORTUNISTS

It was clear by Sunday, 8 February 2015 that the build up to the execution of attempts to silence Nigerians had heightened, perhaps the executioners were unaware of the mortgaging effect on individual and collective future of not just...

OPINION: BUHARI: A NEW SET OF VALUES

The impending May 29 installation of Muhammadu Buhari as Nigeria’s president is not seen by most Nigerians as representing just a change of government. It is rather considered an inauguration of a new social order. Everyone remembers with nostalgia the values...

OPINION: CAN BUHARI FULFILL THE NAIRA-DOLLAR PARITY PROMISE?

A few days to the just concluded general elections, the then All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retired) made a solemn promise that if the Nigerian people voted him into office, he would ensure that...

OPINION: 11 REASONS WHY NYESOM WIKE SHOULD NOT BE SWORN IN AS GOVERNOR ON MAY 29

Because we have not sufficiently punished political criminals in Nigeria for 16years now, the hearts of our politicians have been schemed to continue to do wrong, believing that they are above the law and that nothing will happen to...