Opinion
OPINION: REAL LEADERS EMPOWER BUT PAROCHIAL DIVIDE US FOR CRONIES
We do not have to be a world leader first, African leader or even a national leader to empower folks in our jurisdiction with...
OPINION: GOVERNMENT OF COWS BY COWS AND FOR COWS
The history of political struggle in Nigeria reminds us of the dangers of a fixed majority rule. In a fixed majority rule as in...
OPINION: NIGERIA’S NEW MINTED HOPE
During a brief trip to London last week, I discovered that the news buzz was all about Mandamusa’s prediction that Nigeria—along with Malaysia, Indonesia,...
OPINION: 2015: JONATHAN, PDP AND NORTHWEST POLITICS
Perception, especially when it is erroneous, if not quickly attacked, redressed and rebutted, could become reality and people who are fed on it would...
OPINION: PARTY LOYALTY: THE MUKHTARI SHAGARI EXAMPLE
In 2007, the politics of Sokoto State was all about who would succeed the former governor, Atahiru Bafrawa, who was coming to the end...
OPINION: NIGERIA’S SECTORAL ‘BLACKSHEEP’ OF 2013
Year 2013 has been phenomenal in the political annals of Nigeria’s nationhood given that it was one particular year whereby scholars on Nigerian affairs...
OPINION: THE HOMOSEXUAL I KNOW
Benjamin Nweze sends the congregation to a mellifluous realm. In the realm, every cadence of his baritone executes them slowly. He sings so well...
OPINION: NO JOBS? WELL THE MACHINES ARE TAKING THEM!
Welcome to 2014. While many of us in developing nations are embroiled in trivial and non sequiturethnic, religious and political/governance battles, there is a...
OPINION: ASSERTIONS THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS OF CORPS MEMBERS MAKE
Someone should please tell governors and local government chairmen that the ground for them to celebrate the sinking of boreholes has been removed from...
OPINION: IMO STATE AND THE HALF BREAD SYNDROME
Before the close of last year, I had the singular misfortune of been confronted by a longstanding friend from Gombe state who indeed wanted...
