Category: OP-ED

Ahmad Lawan has been dutiful in his obligation of inking ‘’rubber stamp’’ on the senate. Though he had said the senate, which he leads, would not dissolve into the executive as an appendage; his actions have betrayed this gasconade. Soon after he became senate president, Lawan assumed the ‘’volunteer role of unofficial spokesman’’ of President Buhari and saddled himself with ‘’interpreting… Read More

The population of my home state, Bayelsa, is 2,000,000 and we all live in single-digit Local Government Areas of eight. 2,000,000 people are not too many people. Bayelsa has the least number of local government areas in Nigeria. How difficult can it be to administer 2,000,000 citizens living in a paltry eight local government areas, compared with Lagos and Kano… Read More

The second leg of the 2019 CAF Champions League final promised to be a spectacle of two North African clubs with very passionate supporters, it was all marred by CAF inability to deploy and manage the Video Assistant Referee, VAR. For an international organisation the size and stature of CAF, this equated to making a mess of eating boiled egg.… Read More

Brothers and sister, I know that the result of the 2019 presidential election was a cause for sorrow and worry for millions of Nigerians. While for others, it was a moment to exult and rejoice. The unfortunate implication of this is that the gulf between supporters and opponent of Buhari and the APC administration grew as large as the gap… Read More

In recent weeks the country has been rent with drums of war, ethnic suspicion and other jingoist sounds. From the Oduduwa people’s congress and Afenifere to the Ohaneze Ndigbo to the Arewa Consultative Forum to the Myetti Allah to the Christian Association of Nigeria to the Muslim Right Council; not a day will pass without a sociopolitical or religious group… Read More

About noon today, Great Britain would have officially formalised modalities to have a fresh prime minister to take over from the immediate past leader and only the second ever woman premier after Mrs. Margret Thatcher in the person of Mrs. Theresa May. Precisely around noon on July 23rd2019, Mr. Boris Johnson was announced as the winner of the two way… Read More

The High Court of Akwa Ibom State, Uyo judicial division is scheduled to deliver a judgment on Thursday in respect of a case which has been ongoing for the past nine months between the Atheists Society of Nigeria (ASN) VS. Akwa Ibom State Government. An article published by Bill Flavell, the President, Atheist Alliance International (AAI) on their website on… Read More

The brutal killing of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin Pa Reuben Fasoranti’s daughter, by Fulani herdsmen terrorists, was yet another sad commentary on the unrestrained rampage of Fulani barbaric killers terrorizing Yoruba nation. Kehinde Fasoranti, son of Pa Fashoranti, said Olakunrin was shot and killed by Fulani herdsmen terrorists contrary to what Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu said about the killers of Olakunrin.… Read More

Reinforcing failure is trying to solve a problem with the same washed-out tools, methods and live-ware. A president is as good as his cabinet; this is the reason competence and character, and not political value, must take precedence over every other item in a detailing list. Just like in the 2015 appointments, when a pathos-inducing denouement settled in after six… Read More

Taraba State of Nigeria is perhaps the most endowed state in northern Nigeria due to several distinguishing economic potential features that place it above the other northern states, and perhaps the country as a whole. With a foreign and domestic debt profile of over 60 billion naira as of  30th June 2018 according to the Debt Management Office, it is… Read More