Opinion

OPINION: CORRUPTION AND BUHARI’S PERFECT STORM

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will inherit something of a perfect political storm when he takes office in a few weeks. He ran a well-orchestrated campaign as an outsider, an agent of “change,” and the “answer” to everything that ails Nigeria.   Well,...

OPINION: PASTOR SERIES 1: TUNDE BAKARE, PROPHET OF CHURCH REVIVAL AND NATIONAL REBIRTH (PART 2)

Tunde Bakare is among the most controversial gospel ministers in Nigeria-this man who goes by title of a pastor, is obviously, by calling, a prophet of church and national revival. Tunde Bakare, a former legal adviser in Deeper Life...

OPINION: CELEBRATION OF LIFE TO CONSOLE OUR GRIEF: RINDE DA SILVA

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We were walking around Obalende one day looking for suya. Rinde was mobbed by jobless university graduates. They shouted SSG, SSG, SSG! He was the Secretary to the Lagos State Government. He quickly cautioned them that he had retired...

OPINION: ON UNITED KINGDOM ELECTION

Before the 2015 Nigerian presidential election, I made several predictions on my Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and my Word Press accounts about the elections all which went in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC), the eventual winner. This made...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S HEADACHE: BUHARI’S PANADOL 

FACT: No Magician has ever contested for the post of the Nigerian President, Buhari is not a Magician. We voted for him because He told us that He is serious and ready to take Panadol for our collective headache for...

OPINION: HOW FAYEMI LOST TOUCH WITH THE GRASSROOTS: IGBEMO-EKITI AS A CASE STUDY

The main reason Kayode Fayemi and the APC lost woefully to Ayodele Fayose in the June 21, 2014 governorship elections in Ekiti State and subsequent elections in 2015, according to pundits, is that he lost touch with the grassroots. ...

OPINION: PDP RESURRECTION OR EXTINCTION IN 2019

As the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) faces death penalty for its uncountable crimes against Nigerians since sixteen years ago, the remnant of its membership are consoling themselves with the hallucination of an acquittal under an Igbo President in 2019....

OPINION: ANY REASON FOR DISRESPECT OF COURT?

Michael Nzekwe and Mrs. Juliet Ibekaku are two Nigerian citizens who are currently before the National Industrial Court Abuja to challenge what they individually regarded as illegal termination of their lawful employment with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission....

OPINION: PDP’s ANALYSES OF APC’s STRATEGY

The result of the Nigerian 2015 presidential election shows how elections are won and lost on the altar of strategies. The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) did the impossible by unseating the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the March...

OPINION: THE SORRY LIES OF SUNDAY TRUST

On May 10, 2015, the Sunday Trust Newspaper published an editorial titled “The Sorry Record of Madam Ngozi”, which seems to be a piece deliberately aimed at destroying the reputation of the Finance Minister and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Dr....