Opinions

“We must be ready to measure numbers that matter…or else we won’t understand a husband of a mother is a father”. amebo Just on Saturday, I sat down in front of the television, well not watching it, because there was no electricity, and as I went through a couple of news on the very many […]Read More

Even by his own loquacious standards for verbal diarrhea, the misguided verbal ejaculation of former president Olusegun Obasanjo against Mrs. Farida Waziri; former chairperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was a fundamental lack of expression, which set a new low, in what, unfortunately, has become the unedifying trademark of the talkative former […]

News of last week’s shakeup in the Federal Executive Council (FEC) did not surprise many. As a matter of fact, it was good news in some quarters, except that the axing coincided with the time President Jonathan needed to play some rough tackles, meaning that some of those who fell by the way side may […]

Insidious is the right word to describe Nigerians’ love for Democracy in the face of very many challenging facts and evidences that has shown its harmful, treacherous and ever cumulative negative effects on the overall well-being of the nation and her people. Our overzealousness and obdurate dogmatist dependence on a totally foreign adoption of democracy, […]

Media reports of internal wrangling and in-fighting in Nollywood over the planned N3bn federal government grant to the entertainment industry are disheartening and indeed innocuous; as it raises fundamental questions over the integrity of the intervention fund; intended to offer Nollywood, the opportunity to put its house in order for a re-launch. President Goodluck Jonathan […]

Today a great march and protest is taking place in the Catallan region of the ancient and beautiful nation of Spain. According to the polls 52 per cent of the people from that region wish to break off from Spain and to establish a new European sovereign state. Later this year the people of Scotland […]

Sometimes, it appears the easiest thing to do is to give up on Nigeria.  But that might be the cowardly way to go.  We shouldn’t do that just yet.  So we should grab on to any cheery news that comes down the pike – no matter how fuzzy.  The much threatened self-implosion of the PDP […]

It had all the hallmarks of a well-orchestrated ambush and few saw it coming; yet it was a master stroke that caught presidential handlers napping and left the President stunned and humiliated. In the full view of the world; and with President Goodluck Jonathan watching helplessly, a splinter group led by former vice president, Atiku […]

You don’t ask a toad to give you a chair. You can vividly see it’s squatting To say that Nigerians are easily excitable people is stating the very obvious and indeed our political players do not spare any effort in providing the much-needed entertainment. The fever is intense, everyone is talking about the 2015, and […]

Before the merger that led to the All Progressive Congress (APC), I was a little skeptical and apprehensive about its success especially considering what the original merging entities, that is the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) and a faction of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) […]

“Except in the eyes of the extremely naive and incurable swindlers in the corridors of power, this country has already collapsed; only that the horror of its probable disintegration would be difficult to face.” – Godwin Onyeacholem Nothing proves the assertion that the edifice called Nigeria has effectively collapsed and is in need of an […]

In my view, notwithstanding the view expressed by Prof. Ben Nwabueze, the major challenge facing President Goodluck Jonathan with regards to the 2015 presidential election, more than his electability, is his eligibility. Given the provisions of the constitution and the judgments of the Supreme Court on the matter, I see a clear constitutional impediment against […]