Opinions

For some time now, the governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, has been in the news for all the wrong reasons.  If he is not abusing or making jest of the President of the Federal Republic and the First Lady, he is probably on a roadshow with the leaders of his new-found political party, […]

My little Oxford dictionary defines politician as “person engaged or interested in politics” and politics as “science and art of government; political affairs or life or principles etc.” Politics consists of “social relations involving authority and power”. A politician is defined as one who is actively involved in politics or one who holds or seeks […]

Successive Nigerian governments have deliberately created and left open a system of mammoth shadow revenue taps in the nation’s oil sector. The Federal Government has refused to address the urgent need to bring transparency and due process to the bidding through which oil blocks are allocated and the process for reviewing existing concessions; permitting corrupt […]

Chief Obasanjo’s 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan is so well known that it deserves no preambles here. In discussing this topic, I find myself in a state of discomfiture because the two principal actors in the ACT are people I hold in esteem. Both are my political idols. Even now, in spite of everything, […]

As is common with most politicians, especially heads of government, they are full of promises, but usually the end of the matter is worse than its beginning, and Nigeria has had more than its fair share of broken promises from past administrations. So when President Goodluck Jonathan, repeated the oft-annoying promise made by past leaders […]

After splashing N643 million on 54 cars in 2013, including N255 million for two bullet proof vehicles by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) for the Aviation Minister Stella Oduah, the Ministry now wants to spend a whopping N800 million on vehicles in 2014. With several frivolous provisions such as N543 million on consultants and […]

“Kowa ya dade yaga dadau”. – Hausa (Whoever live long, will see wonders). This is my first admonition for the year 2014, and permit me to share my New Year resolution with us. If topics are anything to go by, don’t be alarmed; hopefully in the next few paragraphs we would have learned a few […]

The best stories are usually the true ones. The following story is not only true but it is also revealing and remarkable. Please fasten your seatbelts, sit back and patiently read it. You never know, you may learn something from it. I certainly did. Here we go. Someone asked me the other day where I […]

In January 2009, former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar visited his former boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta, after years of political acrimony between them.  And, recently, General Muhammadu Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and other top leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) were seen with Obasanjo in warm embrace in Abeokuta. These two events are […]

In 2005, the National Intelligence Council, an independent group that advises Washington’s director of central intelligence, published a report that raised the specter of “the outright collapse of Nigeria.” It echoed an earlier council report on global trends through 2015 that was pessimistic about the future of the so-called giant of Africa. The findings struck […]

Wednesday January 1, 2014 is New Year’s Day. It is a day to rejoice and congratulate each other for witnessing another calendar year; and for Nigerians, it is a day to celebrate the hope that survival imposes on the country, even in an atmosphere of grief and widespread lamentation. New Year day is also a […]

Some of our ‘Ogas at the top’ behave as if they do not need love from their ‘Boys at the bottom’. They loathe showing kindness to their boys. What they see as the showing of kindness is the pittance they give to their boys, even when the boys must be working tirelessly for recognition and […]