Opinion

OPINION: BUHARI: WHO IS SABOTAGING THE SHERIFF?

BONNIE Honig, political theorist and author of 'Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy' wrote: "Democracies must resist emergency's pull to focus on life's necessities (food,...

OPINION: SDGS: NO ONE WILL BE LEFT BEHIND

David Nabarro is the new special adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on sustainable development goals (SDGs), a plan of action for ending...

OPINION: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM – A LOOK AT NIGERIA 5 TRILLION NAIRA SCAM

Those searching far and wide for the causative agent/s of Nigeria recent economic woes – aside from crashing oil prices, can now call off...

OPINION: 11 MONTHS AFTER: PMB AND NIGERIA’S SECURITY CHALLENGES

Just a few months ago news of Boko Haram hoisting flags of its imagined Caliphates across large areas in the North eastern part of...

OPINION: DO NIGERIANS OWE TINUBU PRESIDENCY SLOT?

As a virtuous Nigerian, I have continued to ask myself again and again if indeed we owe the former Lagos State Governor and national...

OPINION: ABIDJAN REGAINS IT GLAMOUR

Spurred by Côte d’Ivoire’s current economic growth, the city is turning a corner Lit by an elaborate display of orange lights, one of the three...

OPINION: GOVERNOR IFEANYI UGWUANYI AND OTHER GOVERNORS OF NC, SW, SE, AND SS STATES WHERE ARE YOU?

I was living in Enugu in 1967 when the bodies and body parts of Eastern Nigerians and naked or nearly naked men and women...

OPINION: ALEX BADEH: ENOUGH OF THIS VILIFICATION

Nigerians are quick to pass judgment of guilt on any person suspected or alleged to have committed an offence even before a court of...

OPINION: ON THE PURPORTED MERGER OF CHRISTIAN AND ISLAMIC STUDIES IN SCHOOLS

Nigeria can be anything but boring. The country often reminds one of the title of one of Dr Anezi Okoro’s novellas – One Week,...

OPINION: KIDNAPPED! DELTA DEN AND DILIGENT PROSECUTION

Kidnapping for ransom was hitherto an unknown criminal phenomenon in Nigeria before 1984, when in a gangland style of the mafioso, some Nigerian agents...