Opinion

OPINION: WHEN CHANGE BECOMES INEVITABLE

If you have been following recent happenings in our polity objectively as it concerns the general elections in the past three months, you will understand it is now clear to the discerning, obvious to the dissenting and acceptable to...

OPINION: COST OF GOVERNANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFORM

Cost of governance has been a challenge to governments all over the world. It is one of the issues that necessitates Public Administration reform in over one hundred and twelve countries across the world being supported by the United...

OPINION: THE ILLUSION OF SECTIONAL ASPIRATIONS IN THE NIGERIAN POLITY

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Each time I go through the various campaign write ups geographical political considerations abound. I have been thinking about it. It has not made any sense at all. It has become an unproductive prison baring progress from enduring here...

OPINION: BUHARI IS A BETTER CHRISTIAN THAN JONATHAN 

It was Mahatma Gandhi who said he admired Christ not Christians. I guess he said this to remind people that most Christians are definitely not Christ-like. One cannot  claim to be a Christian when his attitude is opposite of...

OPINION: NIGERIA: LOOKING BEYOND ELECTORAL PROMISES (1)

It is extremely difficult to count your eggs before they are hatched. This statement is made to controvert the belief that two birds in the bush are better than one in hand. Elections are much like the theory of...

OPINION: MR. NETANYAHU IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO ISRAELI SECURITY

Next week the Israeli Prime Minister Mr. Netanyahu will address the joint session of US congress. It is expected that he would tell congress that the peace deal being negotiated by the US President Mr. Obama is wrong and...

OPINION: WEST AFRICA: NEW RAILWAY NETWORK AIMS TO BOOST INTER-REGIONAL TRADE

Rail to link Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and Togo On the dual carriageway linking the main airport to downtown Niamey, the capital of Niger, workers are busy digging trenches in the middle of the island separating...

OPINION: FINANCING AFRICA’S MASSIVE PROJECTS

Innovative bankrolling gains popularity and raises high hopes among key countries It is an audacious $4.8 billion project undertaken by one of the world’s poorest countries.  At the construction site in the Benishangul region of Ethiopia near the Sudanese border,...

OPINION: THE MAN OSINBAJO OR THE YEMI I KNOW

Since the emergence of Yemi Osinbajo as the vice presidential candidate of the All Peoples Congress (APC) there has been a lot of speculation about him in the media, social media and chat rooms. Nigerians have been so jaded...

OPINION: FOR GOD, FOR COUNTRY, FOR GLORY!

There is a general saying, that as humans we are less appreciative of the science involved in having a peaceful sleep and waking up peacefully everyday. Most people in religious parlance holds that the chemistry behind it is more of divine intervention. Atheists on the other...