Opinion

OPINION: DE-CORRUPTION AND A CASE FOR CORRUPTION AMNESTY

Corruption has become an integral part of our national experience, from the primary school student to the working adult, from public institutions to the private sector, reaching as far as the NGOs and charities. Even our religious institutions, the...

OPINION: MAY DAY:  BEYOND THE RITE OF EULOGY

As existential ordeals keep challenging the optimism of Nigerian workers, we may likely be the last group of people to agree with Charles Dickens’ rosy view of the world: “Time is rolling for an end, and the world is,...

OPINION: HILLARY CLINTON: THE MISUSE OF PROPAGANDA

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Before we proceed, let us make some clarifications. This writer is a Nigerian and knows very little about United States’ politics on first hand basis. Like most of our people who take keen interests in the US elections we...

OPINION: THERE WAS A PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA CALLED JONATHAN

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, would have made history when he hands over power to the President-Elect of Nigeria, General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, on 29th May, 2015 according to the nation’s constitution, not on 28th May, 2015. Whatever people may say and...

OPINION: ALAIGBO DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION AND BUILDING IGBO CONSCIOUSNESS

Like Chinua Achebe pointed out in most of his writings, “… a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.” Studies on the brain behind the giant technological,...

OPINION: MOVING FORWARD POLICE LEADERSHIP IN NIGERIA CANNOT BE SIMULTANEOUSLY PLAYED DISHONESTLY AND HONESTLY, IGP ABBA AS A CASE STUDY

The general perception is that the abrupt and unceremonious removal of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Suleiman Abba from the leadership of the Nigeria police force was because he chose to do the right thing at this time...

OPINION: TRANSITION COMMITTEE: DAVID-WEST IN THE NIGERIAN STRUGGLE

“We should educate the people of their rights; encourage a healthy, moral attitude toward money; rebelling against a bad law and bad leaders is an act of God.” – David-West.   That the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated a 19-member...

OPINION: SOLOMON ARASE: NIGERIA’S NEW CHIEF OF POLICE

In Solomon Ehigiator Arase, the Nigerian people may have found a dependable square peg to head the Nigeria Police, after a decade and a half of a routine game of musical chairs in Louis Edet House, Abuja. His sudden elevation...

OPINION: WHY JIBRIN SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FOR REPS SPEAKERSHIP POSITION

As the race for who becomes the speaker of the federal house of representatives gathers momentum, there is a great need for the 360 lawmakers ‎to be clinically careful because whatever they do today will directly affect not only...

OPINION: WHY PRESIDENT-ELECT BUHARI MUST CUT NIGERIA’S EXCESSIVE FOREIGN EDUCATION SPENDING

Obviously, the current state of the education in Nigeria is not enviable. It's low in quality and standard, limited in its reach and disturbing in its future. Even though the benefits of education are wide, it's widely acknowledged that education...