Opinion

OPINION: THE NEEDLESS CRISIS IN BURUNDI

Ever since Pierre Nkurunziza, President of Burundi, declared his intention to run for a third five-year term, things have taken a different shape in the East African Country. Orders are no longer Order. Things appear to be falling apart. The...

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO ASIWAJU BOLA AHMED TINUBU

Dear Asiwaju,   I trust that this letter will meet you in the best state of health and in highest form of sound mind. I am also hopeful that your family is doing well in all ramifications.   I will like to congratulate...

OPINION: PDP CRISIS: ARE THINGS FALLING APART?

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Many thoughts have been shared about the “great fall” of the People’s Democratic Party(PDP) in Nigeria. How the mighty fall. It only reminds me of the soap opera we saw as children The Rich Also Cry. Does this title...

OPINION: APC: FACE THE REAL ISSUES AND STOP CHASING BUTTERFLIES

Recently, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. John Oyegun, was quoted as saying that he was “sad” that his party could not produce a lawmaker from the South East to be elected as senate president or...

OPINION: ON BEN MURRAY-BRUCE’S POPULIST CUM NATIONALIST POSTURING

You might be Albert Einstein, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet all molded in one human, but if you lack knowledge and understanding in a particular area and make no effort to gain that which you are deficient in, but...

OPINION: A GOVERNMENT NEITHER BY NOR FOR THE PEOPLE

The political horse-trading in Israel seen over the past eight weeks, which went down to the wire to form a new government, was, in the main, a struggle over who would get what position, regardless of their qualifications and...

OPINION: ANOTHER MOTHER’S DAY FULL OF GRIEVE AND LOSS WITHOUT CHIBOK GIRLS

May 10, the second Sunday of May was Mother's Day in North America and Canada. Mother's Day is a day which gives children the opportunity to express their appreciation, gratitude as well as love to their mothers. It is...

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

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...