Opinion

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO THE CHAIRMAN, THE NIGERIAN COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (NCC)

UNSOLICITED AND UNWARRANTED CALLS AND TEXT MESSAGES TO OUR PHONES I want to use this medium to bring to your notice the varieties of unsolicited calls and text messages to our phones on daily basis. Its so sad that with the...

OPINION: WE INSIST ON A GREATER LAGOS

Recently in the media and in the weeks building up to the February 28,‎ 2015 crucial elections in Lagos state, a squad of keyboard assassins with their paid pens trained on Senator Musiliu Obanikoro have emerged and will continue...

OPINION: WHEN CHIEF DURO ONABULE HAD A MEMORY LAPSE

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Scientists have told us that people of all ages experience inconvenient and, sometime, embarrassing memory lapses. That is the reason I may have to cut Chief Duro Onabule some slack in this rejoinder to his column on The Sun...

OPINION: NIGERIA: DIVIDED NATION, BREAKUP INEVITABLE

The possible breakup of Nigeria brings on the bone-shaking shivers doctors call rigors. Many writers have detailed how Nigeria is bursting at the seams with ethno-religious, political and economic problems waiting to explode. However, the apostles of one Nigeria...

OPINION: LOCAL GOVERNMENT AUTONOMY AND THE PROPOSED INDEFINITE STRIKE BY NIGERIAN TEACHERS

The demand for autonomy in the local governments of Nigeria has always been in the front burner of political discussions since the beginning of this republic in 1999. The heat on it has been hotter since the national assembly...

OPINION: THE MISTAKES WOULD-BE JONATHAN’S PRESIDENTIAL HANDLERS SHOULD NEVER MAKE

In the coming weeks, active political activities for next year’s General Elections will kick start fully and officially! It will be a time to expect the unexpected. A time for massive defections from one party to another in furtherance...

OPINION: LETTER TO OBIANO ON APGA PRIMARIES

Congratulations on your latest victory at the courts. Here’s hoping that yet another disgruntled fellow will not come up with a new suit; chagrined, perhaps, about how ably you’ve piloted the affairs of the state thus far. Be rest...

OPINION: 2015: THE OPPOSITION AND THE PLANNED ABORTION OF OUR DEMOCRACY

“And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost.”― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings When loosely applied, the quote taken from Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is apt in the Nigerian situation we have apparently...

OPINION: ALCHEMY OF NAIRA’S DEVALUATION AND HIGHER INTEREST RATE AS OIL PRICE PLUMMETS

As crude oil price continues to nosedive and with limited war chest to shield naira, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has officially devalued naira by 8 percent and raised interest rates by 100 basis points. Godwin Emefiele, the CBN...

OPINION: GOVERNOR T. A ORJI: VICTIM OF CIRCUMSTANCE?

A victim of circumstance is a person whom something bad happens to because of factors outside his control. Am not from Abia state neither am I a fan of Abia state governor or a supporter of People's Democratic Party (PDP),...