Opinion

OPINION: MUST RULE CHARLATAN SYNDROME

Must Rule Charlatan Syndrome is a kind of political disease mostly infected to politicians by their politically demented supporters. The infected victims are every where in the polity of our nation, they are always in support of the ruling government...

OPINION: BETWEEN PRESIDENTS JONATHAN AND OBASANJO

The news has it that there are nocturnal meetings between the failed Military and pseudo Military leaders who have been unsuccessful in transmuting to civilian leaders and lastly they appear to have sent out "our dear" President Obasanjo to...

OPINION: MR. JIM NWOBODO, EX-GOVERNOR, EX-SENATOR, EX-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE

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I will try to accomplish three things in this short message. 1. Express sympathy for the death in the Nwobodo family 2. Re introduce Mr. Jim Nwobodo and his accomplishments 3. Lament the degradation of political leadership since his time My family and...

OPINION: ARE WE BECOMING A POLICE STATE OR WAS THIS A COUP ATTEMPT?

I think the gloves are now off and the knuckles are out. No one should be left in doubt as to what we face today. The show of shame has taken another dimension. I could not imagine that what...

OPINION: NIGERIA: A NATION ON DEATH ROW

In a few months time, Africa most populous nation, Nigeria will be heading to the polls to elect its political representatives in an electoral exercise that has been predicted to be the fiercest yet political battle in the history...

OPINION: THE CHIBOK GIRLS’ SPIRIT HAUNTS THE NIGERIAN PARLIAMENT AND MARKS PRESIDENT JONATHAN’S 57TH BIRTHDAY

It was an unusual day in our nation as Tambuwal 's speakership and Jonathan's presidency were marked with an unusual twist in a way that we have never seen before. If truth be told, the speaker’s and the president’s positions...

OPINION: A RADICAL RETHINK: ALIGNING PEOPLE’S AND DONORS’ PRIORITIES

With the enormous diversity of social contexts where development interventions take place, one might imagine it would be extremely difficult to identify a single rule of thumb that enables the best possibility for project success, or sustainability. However, global experiences...

OPINION: THE FALL OF THE WOULD-BE EMPEROR

President Erdogan has recently come under intense criticism for his unwillingness to come to the aid of the beleaguered Syrian Kurds in the city of Kobani just across the Turkish border. Sadly, Erdogan's behavior is not surprising as he...

OPINION: SUSWAM’S 50TH: WHAT MR. PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE SEEN IN BENUE

Last week the nation's focal lenses were featured on Benue state, the food basket of the nation, not because of the slogan but because great leader and a young and proactive performer, dubbed the "Infrastructure Governor", was celebrating his...

OPINION: EXECUTIVE ACTIVIST ON MANY FRONTS!

This personage needs no introduction. She is no other person than the woman of courage, the woman whose love for the downtrodden, the less privileged and the have-nots, knows no bounds. The woman, who is passionate about women emancipation...