Opinions

Introduction The essence of good governance is to effectively lead and guide the instruments of the State to meet the needs of citizens, effectively balancing present needs while anticipating future trends. The ability to optimally achieve these balances is what defines good governance. If good governance is difficult to achieve under normal conditions, it is […]

On January 27, 2002, Palestinian anti-Israeli occupation activist, Wafa Idriss, became the first female suicide bomber of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when she boldly walked into a shopping district on Jerusalem’s Jaffa Road and blew herself up in the heart of the City. The bomb killed Idris, an Israeli citizen, and wounded approximately ninety people. Since […]

As the Federal Government sets yet another target, next October for stable power supply, the announcement by Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, that Nigerians may witness another hike in electricity tariffs, without any corresponding improvement in power supply to justify another increase, is outright provocation and unfair to Nigerians who are being compelled to pay […]

The bizarre manner in which former Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako was impeached and removed from office is yet another vindication that Nigeria is a country where wonders shall never end. Against the backdrop of the 2015 presidential elections, the removal of Nyako should not be taken on its face value, as it appears to be […]

The attempt to snuff life out of one of Nigeria’s most revered former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, in a fiendish operation which would have passed for a routine Boko Haram attack if their hand had performed their enterprise, would have thrown Nigeria in turmoil of unimaginable proportions as President Jonathan submitted days ago. […]

As Muslims celebrate the Eid-el-Fitri, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan or the end of 30 or 29 days of mandatory fasting, Nigerians can only hope that the feast of the ram as it is popularly known, will provide yet another opportunity for the faithful to embrace the fear of God as […]

The role the Media played in the struggle for Nigeria’s independence can never be undermined.  Analysts who give much of the credit to politicians for leading the nationalist movements-the umbrella body that piloted the struggles, often forget that such political leaders were first and foremost professional journalists, Nnamdi Azikiwe for instance had served as the […]

In the past week or so, I have read quite a number of articles and comments about the ‘purported’ award of a public relations (PR) contract to a foreign-based PR consultancy, LEVICK, which, as a local news site – www.thecable.ng – put it, was hired by the News Agency of Nigeria to manage the international […]

It is hard to believe that a decorated, but obviously psychologically challenged, General, who boasted that he would distribute Kola nuts (some suggest it was AK rifles) to his Fulani brothers to join the All Progressives Congress (APC), has decided to travel to Europe to take a well-deserved rest (some insist he is running away […]

Governor John Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, whose tenure ends in October this year, has been singing a new song concerning his defeat at the recent gubernatorial election held in his state.  In an interview granted to the Sunday Sun and now available on the internet, Fayemi, who received accolades for accepting defeat and congratulating […]

If the leading opposition party in Nigeria were to make known its innermost wish, it will certainly be to stop the nation’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, from running for the highest office in the land for a second term.  The All progressives Congress (APC) elements have not hidden this desire for a moment.  They have made […]

It would have been enough to dismiss the statement as the ranting of an overzealous and misguided sycophant. But against the background of Nigeria’s precarious security situation, due to the Boko Haram insurgency, and the embarrassing spectacle of scums stumping around the national stage as potentates, it is risky to ignore, or take lightly, the […]