Opinions

The irreverent trading of words between the main opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) and the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), over the actual sponsor of Boko Haram was not unexpected and bears closer examination. Last August 28, a footage aired on the “Arise News Now UK” television station wherein Dr. Steven Davies; a […]

In recent weeks the All Progressive Congress(APC) has been rocked with a tidal wave of defection of a founding member in Chief Tom Ikimi and the party’s 2011 presidential candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu to the party Nigerians loathe but can’t vote out of power at the centre, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP).  Ikimi’s grievance with the […]Read More

If not for the courage and sheer gallantry of the men and women of the Nigerian Armed Forces Boko Haram would have taken over Bama and many other towns in north-eastern Nigeria by now and things would have been far worse. We must not fail to commend and encourage our soldiers when they do a […]

Yesterday, a former governor of Borno state, Mr. Modu Sheriff addressed a press conference at Abuja where he attempted to play on the collective intelligence of Nigerians by denying any link with the dreaded Boko Haram sect. He was apparently reacting to his indictment by Rev Stephen Davis, the international negotiator engaged by the federal […]

The rambling, verbose and cantankerous outburst of Chief Tom Ikimi, on his decision to quit the All Progressive Congress (APC) party, including sundry issues of internal democracy and party discipline, is anything but righteous self-indignation that is disappointing to many Nigerians. It is disappointing that Ikimi’s action was below the level expected of an elder […]

How can it be said that a deadly Ebola Virus Disease [EVD], imposed on Nigeria by “one mad man” from a foreign country is becoming a factor of unification for Nigerian? Can that be true? Does a thing like that exist? Can anything good come from Ebola Virus Disease? Save your answer or agitation for […]

Over 35 years after the first failed attempt by the federal government in 1979 to establish a national identification database for the country, the scheme was again revived last Thursday in Abuja with the high profile launch of the electronic identification (e-ID) card by President Goodluck Jonathan at Aso Villa. This new attempt is born […]

I read the grave allegations made by an Australian by the name of Mr. Stephen Davis about those that he believes are behind Boko Haram in the 29th August edition of Thisday Newspaper. He made some very serious allegations, he mentioned names and I would be interested in seeing the hard evidence that he claims […]

The online dictionary – dictionary.com – describes hemorrhage as a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel.  In looking for a word to best describe the ongoing exodus from the All Progressives Congress (APC) of its leading lights, I could not find a better word than hemorrhage.  With the recent decision of […]

As official rhetoric and blame game drives fear into the complex matrix over the raging Ebola crisis, there are reports that some hospitals are now sending away patients, who exhibit Ebola symptoms to go home and manage their illness; leaving the patients with no option than self-medication. This is most pathetic and tragic! Even more […]

On Thursday, August 21, 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan received the 21 Volumes of the Report of the 2014 National Conference from Justice Idris Kutigi, former Chief Justice of Nigeria and Chairman of the Conference.  That the National Conference even held is a tribute to the spirit of quiet determination that Jonathan embodies.  That the conferees […]

The success of the recent Osun gubernatorial election notwithstanding, it is just as well that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, has faulted the deployment of masked operatives by the Department of State Security (DSS) for the poll, which saw incumbent Rauf Aregbesola of the opposition All progressive Congress […]