Opinion

OPINION: PRESIDENT-ELECT BUHARI, SOME BASIC POLICY TIPS (BPTS) FOR GOVERNMENT RESTRUCTURING MOVING FORWARD

The incoming national government of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) under the presidency of Mohammadu Buhari could make our economy more productive, not only by addressing the high cost of civil service operations in Nigeria but by...

OPINION: MR. BUHARI MUST LOOK FOR OUTSIDERS OR ELSE…

Bring in the capable "outsiders" Ribadu lost... Na Adamawa lose Agbaje lost... Na Lagos lose As dem lose so... Na Nigeria gain Because these are men driven by great ideals I have heard good things about Peter Obi Oby Ezekwesili needs no introduction If these people...

OPINION: BOLA TINUBU IS DIEZANI ALISON-MADUEKE’S CONFIDENCE

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My recent article, titled “Bola Tinubu is General Buhari’s James Ibori” has apparently been widely published and therefore has elicited an equally diverse range of responses, mainly quite civil even while disagreeing with my general position.   However, to those readers...

OPINION: CAN ROCHAS TAME NOISE POLLUTION IN OWERRI? 

Anayochukwu Rochas Okorocha has just got reelected as governor of the South Eastern heartland of Imo state for another four year tenure. He has been in the saddle as governor since 2011. In the last four years the performance of...

OPINION: BUHARI: ALTERNATE POWER GENERATION FOR HOMES AND INDUSTRIES

We cannot afford to fail again on generation of electricity to homes and industries in Nigeria. But we certainly need a new approach without dislocating the enormous investments made by previous governments. A good example is how affordable cell...

OPINION: POLITICS OF FUEL STARES AT BUHARI

The politics of fuel ignited the downfall of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The politics of fuel will ultimately ignite the success or failure of the second coming of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).   Perhaps the defeat of Jonathan in the March...

OPINION: XENOPHOBIA: WHO WILL RESCUE AFRICA FROM ITSELF?

A friend narrated what he saw in a one of the videos of xenophobic attacks currently going on in South Africa.   Here him, ‘’I saw a crowd charging at a white vehicle. In the crowd were youths,men and women and...

OPINION: A VOTE FOR AKUME SENATE PRESIDENCY

Long before the tectonic plates of Nigeria’s political architecture shifted in favour of the progressives’ camp as represented by the All Progressives Congress (APC), George Akume, who served as Governor of Benue State from 1999 to 2007 under the...

OPINION: AKUME, THE SENATE AND THE SEARCH FOR LEADERSHIP

If there is one word to capture with precision the political situation in the most important black nation, Nigeria, it has to be transition. Yes, for the past sixteen years that the country returned to civil rule, the Peoples...

OPINION: SENATE PRESIDENCY: THE CASE FOR NORTH CENTRAL

Truth be said, it is in the interest of national inclusiveness and pragmatic politics that the number three position in the country remains in the North Central as the jostle for the Senate Presidency ramps up. Let me explain. Nigeria...