Opinion

OPINION: TEMITOPE OSHIKOYA: THE LIES OF A DISAPPOINTED MAN

It is a shame that someone with the credentials of Dr Temitope Oshikoya would display the kind of dishonesty and moral turpitude present in his article, "Golden Girl and the Icarus Paradox" published in The Guardian of Monday, September...

OPINION: ERDOGAN NEEDS A SPASM OF LUCIDITY

The ascendancy of Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the presidency places Turkey on a trajectory that could usher in a new era unlike any other since the founding of the Turkish Republic in 1923 by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. During...

OPINION: #BRINGBACKGOODLUCK2015 SHAME REVISITED

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It took the intervention of the US Newspaper The Washington Post to draw the attention of the world and President Goodluck Jonathan on the primitive and evil machinations of the president’s men who tried few days back to use...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM: GAPS IN THE DAVIS NARRATIVES

Before we proceed on the controversy that has trailed the statement by Dr. Stephen Davies over people he said were mentioned to him as Boko Haram sponsors, we need first to resolve two issues: what is the veracity of...

OPINION: DOES OIL AND BOKO HARAM MIX? THE CRUDE OIL DISCOVERED IN BORNO

Precious oil was discovered in Borno in the Lake Chad basin in 2012. After oil was discovered in the basins in neighboring Chad and Niger, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC commenced serious prospecting in the Chad, Anambra and...

OPINION: STARTLING STATISTICS OF EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

It was failure galore in the recently released results of the 2014 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The scandalous revelation was that just31.29 percent of the candidates cleared the five credits benchmark alongside the compulsory subjects of...

OPINION: BEFORE LAMIDO ENDANGERS A PROMISING CAREER

If there is one northern governor that can be said to have been people-oriented and who has left his people in a situation better than he met them, that governor must be Alhaji Sule Lamido of Jigawa State. Before...

OPINION: THE CRACKS IN APC’S WALLS

It is a shocking surprise that the cracks that many feared were appearing on the seemingly impregnable walls of the All Progressives Congress (APC) are being proved to be true daily with goings-on in that enclave of strange bedfellows....

OPINION: STILL ON CHIBOK : WHAT JONATHAN WON’T SAY OR DO

Over 100 days have passed. The whereabouts and welfare of the 290 girls abducted from Chibok remain a unknown to us. Government seems not to have the key to unlocking this awful mystery. Government’s handling of the matter has been...

OPINION: ENUGU POLITICS: TACKLING THE RANTING OF ABUJA-BASED POLITICLANS

There is no doubt that the Executive Governor of Enugu State, Barrister Sullivan Iheanacho Chime is the most vilified governor in Nigeria. His vilification is however not coming from the masses, but from the few Abuja-based politicians who wants...