Opinions

If there was any doubt that President Goodluck Jonathan is clueless on how to confront the growing insecurity that is enveloping the country, his response to the kidnapping of 234 school girls by Boko Haram at Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno, in clearly unmistakable terms, depicts a government totally bereft of ideas and lacking in […]

My worst fears have been confirmed and sadly the Haramites of Boko have struck again. Another terrible bomb blast has taken place in Abuja and many innocent people have been butchered, slaughtered and maimed. At the last count the number of those killed is no less than 39 despite attempts by the international and local […]

The north is lagging behind in education, socially and in economic development. It was their choice and if the region was interested in promoting education among their people, they could have used the decades of hold on power to move the northern people ahead in education, socially and in economic development. But one area the […]

The unending spate of violent clashes between local communities in Nasarawa as well as in other states of the federation is sadly compounding the insecurity in the country. This is worrisome because despite their frequency, news about these clashes has been dwarfed by reports of the Boko Haram insurgency. It is unfortunate that a killing […]

When President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe States in May 2013 he rejected the illegal advice of some power mongers to remove the elected governors and dissolve other democratic structures in the affected states. In my reaction to the development I commended the President for not allowing the […]

No matter the level of rascality of a Nigerian politician, he would still revere royalty and accept his traditional ruler, not only as the custodian of his own culture and norms, but also as an epitome of morality, wisdom and sound judgment.  That is why most Nigerian politicians always try to cultivate and solicit the […]

…CBN Governor, Emefiele must brace up for the mint challenge Call him a showman, smooth talker, self-righteous and self-adulating gadfly, loud, intemperate, brash, aristocratically arrogant, impulsive, loose cannon, attention seeker, rabble – rouser,activist and iconoclastic renegade. All these and many more fit this extroverted Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s characterisation. These are his attributes which most […]

After trading brickbats and pouring tantrums at each other over the Boko Haram insurgency, the unanimity and general consensus of purpose by government and opposition leaders, after last week’s expanded National Security Council meeting would seem a good gesture, but this would not in itself, end the insurgency that is threatening to envelop the entire […]

Some of our brothers have turned the country upside down.  Fear stalks citizens like long lazy shadows.  Abuja, in particular, is as nervous as a virgin.  If it’s not Boko Haram today, then it’s Herdsmen who also happen to be experts in directing helicopter drop-offs and are equally smooth in their use of semi-automatic weapons.  […]

“Nigerian Muslim clerics living in the border towns of Cameroon and Nigeria are recruiting Boko Haram members in their mosques”- GOVT OF THE CAMEROUNS Oh Nigeria, how I feel sorry for you. They burn your cities, kill your citizens, rape your women, steal your children, pillage your lands, insult you openly, desecrate your holy places […]

It is quite unsettling that the leaders of the leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), have decided to self-destruct. They are doing their best in putting the wrong foot forward in almost all their recent public outings. After the launch of their agenda document, the Road Map to a New Nigeria, many had expected […]

The rather combative riposte by the Presidency to the reckless, divisive and inflammatory memo by Adamawa Governor, Murtala Nyako, wherein he accused the Jonathan administration of committing genocide in the north, once again advertises in dramatic fashion, the absence of grace in the highest realms of governance; and this certainly cannot be in the national […]