Opinion
OPINION: THE DOWNSIDE OF ONGOING MEDIA TRIAL
Following the high level of corruption of the past government, the current government made fighting corruption a campaign theme. Just last week the government...
OPINION: WHEN THE PRESIDENT RETURNS
The recent news that President Buhari has taken ill and travelled to England to treat a discomforting left ear infection called Meniere Disease has...
OPINION: JAMB AFTER POST UTME
The recent news that the federal government has scrapped the post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME) test is very cheering news. There had been...
OPINION: NIGERIA’S STRANGE BUSINESS OF CORPSES
I’m deeply troubled by what appears to me to be Nigeria’s growing industry of making and exhibiting corpses. The Nigerian state—represented by its police...
OPINION: BERNIE SANDERS AND THE FRENCH INITIATIVE
Following the 2016 US presidential elections, the next administration must adopt a new and realistically balanced policy toward Israel and the Palestinians to bring...
OPINION: JUSTICE CHIKERE: MATTERS ARISING
The media recently reported that a non-government organisation (NGO), Campaign for Judicial Integrity, has written a petition to the National Judicial Council (NJC) over...
OPINION: SEXUAL HARASSMENT BILL A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
The history of sexual harassment dates back to the pre-colonial era when women were accorded little or no rights whatsoever - they were often...
OPINION: MURDER AND MADNESS BY DOOMED YOUTHS
I penned a piece titled “A Doomed People” published in SaharaReporters, October 11, 2012 on the riveting butchery of four students of University of...
OPINION: A GOVERNOR’S CREDENTIALS AS SERIAL WRECKER
The month of May ended without any credit alerts for Bayelsa State Government workers, even after Governor Henry Seriake Dickson and the State Chapters...
OPINION: DANCING ON THE EDGE OF THE CLIFF
I visited Vienna, Austria some years ago. After five days of going round the city, it occurred to me that I had not come...
