Opinion

OPINION: PASTOR TUNDE BAKARE: NIGERIA’S COUNTERWEIGHT TO JAGABAN BOLA TINUBU

Congratulations to Dr. Kolawole Kayode for one of the most brilliant and well-written articles in recent memory. The piece, titled “BOLA TINUBU IS GENERAL BUHARI’S JAMES IBORI” very aptly reflects the prevailing concern of many Nigerians that their hard-won,...

OPINION: KING OF ZULU & OBA EKO: SALVATION BEGINS AT HOME

Should we blame Kings, Oba, Emir or Obi diversionary scapegoating as members of oppressors’ class? The poor abscond desperately across 7 seas and 7 deserts for greener pasture as looters squander our seed money to better other communities in...

OPINION: RE-ENGINEERING THE PDP: THE CHALLENGES AHEAD

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Epilogue So many reasons and rationalisations have been adduced for the epochal failure of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, to re-enact its winning streak in the nation’s presidential and other elections held in the...

OPINION: IGP MD YUSUF BOWS OUT, IGP SOLOMON ARASE STEPS IN

A few weeks ago, precisely on Wednesday 1st April 2015, Nigeria’s intelligence and security firmament was shaken to its foundation with the announcment of the death of former Inspector General of Police (IGP), the late Mallam Muhammadu Dikko (M....

OPINION: WHY ALEX OTTI IS A BETTER CHOICE FOR ABIA GOVERNOR

In this battle of the Past versus the Future, what type of new leader does Abia need? Another politician or a first-rate technocrat who manages financial balance sheets and what I call definable outcomes?   It is in that context that...

OPINION: OBONO OBLA: THE FACE OF A FRAUD

I have followed with nausea, the ongoing spat between Okoi Obono Obla and one of Governor Liyel Imoke’s aide, Mr. Christian Ita, bothering on petition written by Obla to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.   First and foremost, I...

OPINION: PSYCHOLOGICAL SCREENING FOR MAGISTRATES AND JUDGES TO COMBAT JUDICIAL CORRUPTION IN OUR FORWARD-LOOKING NIGERIA 

Hardly will anyone argue the fact that in our contemporary Nigeria, the public institutions and their occupiers are riddled with greed and corruption. For far too long, especially under the Jonathan government, the general perception nationally and internationally is...

OPINION: TOWARD A NEW NIGERIA (2): BUHARI SHOULD FIGHT CORRUPTION WITH DEATH SENTENCE

Thieves Like Femi Fani-Kayode, Ayo Fayose, Doyin Okupe Should Face Firing Squad   After years of toxic pollution and devastating effects from corruption, Nigeria – Africa's most populous country – has become a wasteland. It's not a coincidence that Nigeria is...

OPINION: IBOHAYO FINALLY WINS NIGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 2015

When in 2003 Ibohayo contested the presidential polls in Nigeria, there was confusion, despite his credibility, amongst the echelons of the nation’s political and economic classes – the power brokers – over his mission in Nigeria’s politics. Many were...

OPINION: THE CHIEF SERVANT NIGERIANS DON’T KNOW

As Dr. Mu’azu Babangia Aliyu prepares to bid Niger State people farewell a meritorious farewell after serving as 2 term Governor, it is instructive to intimate that he came into the political terra ferma, saw the dramatis personae alongside...