Tag: Opinion

On Tuesday, 26 March 2019, a police Deputy Superintendent, Godwin Oshiogbuwe, was kidnapped from a checkpoint along the Ubiaja-Ewohimi-Agbor road by unknown gunmen. His body was found the next day by a police tactical team at about 1640 hours. It had been mutilated, and his gun had been taken away. To my knowledge, none of the men who found the… Read More

 My Life Is My Message. – M.K. Gandhi Prior to the meeting of Bola Tinubu and APC Governors and leaders, I penned a piece titled Tinubu Wishbone Leaders’ Meeting published on May 19, 2021 by SaharaReporters. In the article, I asked series of questions for the reason for such a meeting. I said “The meeting is not going to add… Read More

outh-east, insurgency and the coming refugee crisis, by Fredrick Nwabufo What fuels an insurgency? The combustible mixture of ideology and ignorance. If a clump of uninformed people has an ideology they can die for, they will do the illogical for it. The intercourse of ideology and ignorance does not follow logic. Insurgency ignites and thrives in the residence of seductive… Read More

It has been a while when the Nigerian Labour movement particularly, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) bared its fangs (some say broken teeth). Many have given up on the Congress as a bunch of self-serving labour aristocrats making hay while the sun shines. This view is not unconnected to the fact that during the several rounds of oil price increases,… Read More

In 1999-2002, I was a cabinet member in Katsina State Government. When I was preparing our first budget, I was unsettled by the past trends in government support for agriculture.  Year in year out, 80% of the budget for agriculture went into fertilizers procurement. Knowing the requirements of agriculture as I did then, I felt that I needed to interrogate… Read More

“What the hell!” is the greatest human expression of abhorrence. When human souls are led beyond incomprehensible sequences of nature in negativity, the word ‘hell’ suffices.  Hell is a place recognised by the 2 major religions in Nigeria: Christianity and Islam, both religions teaches eternal reward for those who do well in time and eternal punishment for those who don’t.… Read More

Mahamat Idriss Deby, 37, bedecked in the military fatigue of a four star general, spotting a red beret and some decoration on his chest, was seen at the Nigeria Aso Rock Presidential Villa on Friday, May 14. He had at least two other four star generals in similar fatigue, red and blue berets, which announced in unmistakable terms that this… Read More

A country, like a multi-storey building, may not collapse of a sudden; it starts with cracks. The cracks maybe a symptom of  greater magnitude that might not be immediately visible. They may be due to improper structural design and specifications, structural stress, poor construction or poor maintenance. The solution is not to deny the cracks or paper over them, but… Read More

The Rome Statute is the international treaty that founded the International Criminal Court. Comprising of 13 Parts, it establishes the governing framework for the Court. Adopted at the Rome Conference on 17th July 1998, it came into force on 1st July 2002, thereby creating the International Criminal Court. The Statute sets out the Court’s jurisdiction over genocide, crimes against humanity,… Read More

Adam Smith opined that there is no obligation for anyone to do good. Still, for society to survive, rules must be designed todeter individuals from harming each other. The Western world leaders have since adopted this notion, and it contributed to their accelerated growth. A very simple way of emulating such behaviour is to follow the rules when you know too much or even very little, regardless of one’s position in society. It is worrisome when an elected official violates the law in our society because practising such behaviour is immoral, uncivil,and undemocratic. The… Read More