Opinion

OPINION: MR. PRESIDENT JONATHAN, APRIL 14, 2014 WILL CONTINUE TO REAR ITS BURNING HEAD AS WE GET CLOSER TO FEBRUARY 14, 2015

  As the Nigerian presidential and National Assembly elections are set for February 14, 2015, your recent warnings to Nigerians to expect soldiers during elections, including the coming elections, could inhibit anarchy in 2015.  But the real challenge that could...

OPINION: MY ENCOUNTER WITH THE STRIPPED TAXI DRIVER IN ABUJA

  "How nice you are to a loaf of bread depends on our hungry you are" I was in Abuja recently, and took a taxi that had a man with tribal marks; he was wearing a stripped shirt, interestingly a stripped...

OPINION: NDOMA-EGBA: A SENATOR’S FOURTH TERM AMBITION

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  Victor Ndoma-Egba, the Senator representing Cross River Central Senatorial Districts is one of the highly respected lawmakers in the National Assembly today. The Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) has, undoubtedly, been able to carve a niche for himself since...

OPINION: 2015 PRESIDENCY, PRESIDENT JONATHAN AND NDIGBO

  Next year's general elections have now thrown our nation into the eleventh-hour of high-level politicking. Politics and all else remotely related to it are now having a free run. Since ours is a country where realpolitik for the next...

OPINION: OBI IN THE SEASON OF DEFECTIONS

  In recent weeks, its been politics of defection all over the country and all the political parties have had their own share of defection one way or the other but it seems the ruling party, People's Democratic Party are...

OPINION: ORGANIC AGRICULTURE: WILL THE ‘MEEK’ INHERIT THE EARTH?

  The practice of organic agriculture combines traditional methods with today’s knowledge of health and environmental sustainability. In Morocco it is generally observed that the more remote the farming communities – and most often the more disadvantaged – the less...

OPINION: REMEMBERING THE CHIBOK GIRLS

  In the early hours of the morning of April 14th 2014 276 girls were abducted from their school as they slept. They all came from a predominantly Christian town in northern Nigeria called Chibok. They were all between the ages...

OPINION: RIVERS PDP AND THE FIGHT IN ABUJA

On October 9, 2014, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Rivers State was said to have thrown caution to the winds and engaged in all for free brawl at the National Campaign Office of the party in Maitama, Abuja....

OPINION: MR. PRESIDENT, LIKE STATE UNIVERSITIES, LET STATE GOVERNMENTS ESTABLISH STATE-RUN CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA

Mr. President, like State universities, let’s empower State governments to run and even establish Penal and Correctional Institutions within their jurisdictions in order to overhaul the Nigerian Prisons System, which has failed woefully in some of its core mandates...

OPINION: MR. PASTOR, STOP PREACHING NONSENSE!

  As a student of religious politics and religious terrorism, I am quite aware that religious leaders do have political agendas and characteristically use the altar to mobilize (or de-mobilize) their followers for politics. I was, however, utterly shocked after...