Opinion

OPINION: APC’S MANUAL FOR DEFEATING PDP IN THE 2015 PRESIDENTIAL

We believe that Nigeria is a colony of Northern Nigeria being illegally ruled by a Niger Delta impostor, President Jonathan. - ---Dr Khalid Abubukar Aliyu. General Secretary Jama atul Nasir Islam (JNI) This APC's only chance of defeating the PDP...

OPINION: JONATHAN: APC AND THE EBOLA MISCHIEF

The All Progressives Congress, APC, is at it again.  The party does not fail to live to its billing in raking up unnecessary controversy all in an effort to play what it understands as "opposition politics."  Just when we...

OPINION: MOCK MEN AND SPECIALISTS: THE CASE OF LAI MOHAMMED

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Wole Soyinka's Madmen and Specialists is, at its heart, a satirical play featuring a perverted medical specialist whose lust for power during wartime leads him to imprison and torment his father, a well-regarded physician. It is in this context...

OPINION: DECENTRALIZE FOR PEOPLE’S POWER IN ARAB SPRING COUNTRIES

To sustainably advance human development and political stability, Arab Spring countries should decentralize to sub-national levels the resources necessary to catalyze and implement community development.  Increasingly, Morocco is suggested as a model for the successful progress in the Arab...

OPINION: OKUNBO’S HEART OF GOLD AND ROYAL RECOGNITION

I was not surprised when on Thursday, October 2, this year, Omo N' Oba N' Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Erediauwa, Oba of Benin, adorned an illustrious son of Benin, Captain (Dr) Idahosa Wells Okunbo, JP, with the "Traditional Beads" for...

OPINION: #VICTORYFORNIGERIA: CALL FOR COURT MARTIAL OF ARMY CHIEFS

We stand by the brave men of the nation's army any day and every day. Our prayers are with them and their families. Indeed these men at the battlefront are the only remaining vestiges of patriotism in this nation....

OPINION: STILL REFLECTING ON THE NECESSITY OF SELF DEFENCE

Never known for intellectual cowardice or duplicitous diplomacy, the Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese, Bishop Joseph Bagobiri said recently that  it was a religious obligation binding on Christians to use, "moderate and proportionate force" to defend themselves against the...

OPINION: 2015: SENATOR EZE AND THE BATTLE FOR ENUGU

Chief Ayogu Eze, a journalist turned politician is a second term Senator representing Enugu North Senatorial District on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Red Chamber of the National Assembly. Eze, who is the Chairman of...

OPINION: CHIEF GBENGA AWOYALE’S DANCE OF SHAME

There are several ways to seek relevance in life and cheap blackmail should not be your first and only option especially when a certain group of people look up to you as their voice. Incidentally, I have known Gbenga...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM: IS IT NORTHERN HAUSA/FULANI MUSLIM AGENDA TO DEPOPULATED NORTHERN NIGERIAN CHRISTIANS AND OTHER TRIBES?

Boko Haram Islamic terrorism is a Northern Nigeria Muslims agenda to depopulated Northern Nigeria Christians and rule Nigeria by any means possible otherwise read the following infamous statements from Northern Nigerians. "The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate...