Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: RISING TO THE CHALLENGE OF NIGERIA INSTITUTING A SOCIAL WELFARE SCHEME

The decision of the Nigerian Senate to step down the passage of the National Social Welfare Commission, NSWC Bill again testifies to how our country has become so accustomed to caring less about the welfare of its burgeoning mass...

OPINION: FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT

Blessed be the name of the Most High God, the God whose I am and the God whom I serve. Blessed be His holy name forever. I thank the presiding Bishop of this great Church for honoring me in this...

OPINION: 2015 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION AND THE MISTAKE NORTHERN POWER MONGERS HAVE MADE

"The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather Othman Dan Fodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We use the minorities in the north as willing tools and the south as a...