Category: OP-ED

August 30, 2021, marked the 20th year that United States (US) occupied Afghanistan in support of the global war on terrorism.  It is the longest war that U.S. has fought, and the end was inevitable.  As I watched Marine General, Kenneth McKenzie, CENTCOM (Central Command) commander, announce the completion of the mission, my heart filled up with bittersweet emotions; on… Read More

The fear of ethnic domination is as old as Nigeria. Mutual recriminations and suspicion have been the scourge of Nigeria’s cohesive development. The south-east says it is the north, and the north points the finger back; the south-west looks on its neighbour in the south with chariness, while the south-south is in perpetual trepidation of the south-east. A bartering of… Read More

Listening to Prof Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board at the 2021 Policy Meeting which held virtually on Tuesday, reaffirms my belief that there is nothing peculiar about Nigeria’s problems. Our challenges are not insurmountable!  We only need courageous, sincere and selfless people in leadership positions to tackle them.  Those who have been following the story of JAMB… Read More

The Executive Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ioraer Ortom was born on the 23 April, 1961. He is an accomplished politician, businessman, administrator and philanthropist. He was the Minister of State, Trade and Investments during the infamous presidency of Goodluck Jonathan. Before that appointment he had served as the PDP National Auditor. And before that he had worked as the… Read More

Leadership is an often-discussed term in theory, practice, criticism, and activism. However, the practice of leadership is the most difficult of all these phases. Criticism and activism are sisters acts in that they are both endeavors that seek to bring about change, although one requires less physical effort than the other. Any citizen who moves to support criticism and activism… Read More

It is now close to two decades that the Southern hemisphere of Ondo and its beloved people have been living in perpetual darkness due to the mass disconnections of the whole district by the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC). The social, economic, and moral growth an development of our people are now in obvious dissaray. There have been efforts to… Read More

The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Nigeria’s main opposition party, is currently in the throes of a commotion that threatens to destroy the party’s capability to put up any strong showing in the 2023 general elections. Party stakeholders argue that there are enough strong internal mechanisms that would rescue the party and restore it to good health, but those mechanisms do… Read More

Last weekend a musical Iroko tree fell in Benin City, Edo State! The legendary ‘Joromi’ melody exponent, Sir Victor Efosa Uwaifo (MON), joined his ancestors in the Edo state capital city at a ripe age of 80. He was a former Commissioner for Arts, Culture and Tourism in Edo State during the Lucky Igbinedion governorship. He made history in 1996… Read More

Intelligence level (for instance IQ) as revealed by academic results, or skills is not enough. We have seen Nigerians with high IQ levels who may even have studied in top universities abroad, plus held senior positions in European or American establishments, only to get given a leadership position in Nigeria and end up being a common thief, using their position… Read More