Opinion

OPINION: YAR’ADUA WAKE UP! NIGERIA IS BOILING (PART 3)

Yaradua! Wake Up! Nigeria is still boiling. I want to use this opportunity of commemorating the 5th year of your demise to tell you that you have slept enough. Since January, I counted the time till this day to...

OPINION: 2015 POLLS AND LESSONS FROM EDO PDP

The 2015 general elections have come and gone. It is no longer news that the polls recorded one of the biggest political upsets in Africa. For the first time since it's creation in 1998, Peoples Democratic Party, a party...

OPINION: DEAR GOVERNORS, WHERE IS OUR MONEY?

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With May 29, 2015 around the corner, many critics and self-appointed analysts of the Goodluck Jonathan administration have become more vociferous than ever. Ordinarily, this should not come as a surprise. But when criticisms begin to take on elements of personal...

OPINION: MIGRANTS FLEE AFTER DEMOCRACY CREATED CHAOS IN THEIR COUNTRIES

What actions are African countries taking about the weekly sinking and dying of refuges apart from blaming others while stealing resources needed to alleviate poverty where both the rich and the poor flee from? More money is stolen and...

OPINION: REAL REASONS GOVERNORS CAN’T PAY SALARY

It’s now official: our super rich governors claim their states are broke to the extent that they can’t pay workers’ salaries in spite of all the money at their disposal. They are now going cap in hand begging the...

OPINION: REFORMING THE UNREFORMABLE: THE UNFINISHED BUSINESS

Few years ago, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala wrote a book by this same title. I had the good fortune of reading this book few days ago. What resulted from my reading this book was a lightbulb moment which I will...

OPINION: COUNSELS FOR OUTGOING PRESIDENT GEJ

Like a ‘man of God’, he suddenly began to prophesy. Like a prodigal son, he suddenly realized the efficacy of parenthood. And like a love-spoilt, he is bracing up with the reality in woo-manhood. I earnestly appeal to those...

OPINION: SENATE PRESIDENCY: WILL SARAKI EMERGE AS APC SOLE CANDIDATE?

The unfolding political realities in the country today is one that calls for political realignment among gladiators as well as new thinking among bookmakers and strategists. This is because; the task of building the Nigeria of our dreams requires...

OPINION: A GOOD EXAMPLE OF COMMON SENSE REVOLUTION

(A Statement Made By Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Special Guest of Honour at the Public Presentation of Dynamics of Change: The Amaechi Years in Lagos on May 14, 2015).     PROTOCOL       In the course of the historic campaigns for the 2015...

OPINION: SKETCHING A FOREIGN POLICY AGENDA FOR GENERAL BUHARI

It is important to preface this article by stating my position on contemporary Nigerian foreign policy. This is necessary for this intervention to have the foundation for a better appreciation of its central message. Nigerian foreign policy in the...