Opinions

What has consistently escaped most Nigerians in this entire travesty is the fact that mediocrity destroys the very fabric of a country…ushering in all sorts of banality, ineptitude, corruption and debauchery. That…is precisely where Nigeria finds itself today! —Chinua Achebe Since the beginning of yet another strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of […]

At a time when governance in Nigeria has become a competition to parrot “transformation” while everything is done to hunker the country backwards; and with the Presidency obsessed with the politics of 2015, the Federal Government is determined to contest election into the UN Security Council for the 2014-2015 session, ostensibly to ensure more visibility […]

The recent report that US President Barrack Obama has invited Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan to discuss security issues is good for Nigeria. Regardless of what anti-imperialists will say, the United States is the only country that has the greatest capacity to influence positively or negatively the affairs of other countries especially poor ones like Nigeria. […]

It is not gentlemanly the statement that was credited to Barr Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the junior Minister of Education on August 3, 2013, at his Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI) rally in Port Harcourt, that he will make the state ungovernable, by making sure that the residents will not sleep with their two eyes closed. This […]

I recently attended the burial ceremony of the mother of the spokesman of President Goodluck Jonathan, Dr. Reuben Abati, in Abeokuta. I had many years earlier similarly attended that of his father. The attendance at the two occasions were qualitatively different-reflecting the variation in his professional and occupational status. Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State […]

Aba! Our Aba. A town commercially and economically endowed that is likened as the Japan of Africa, whose residents could fabricate anything to mimic its originality. Aba (the Enyimba City) is cosmopolitan, meaning that it harbours a mixture of ethnic groups; from Igbo the natives to Hausa/Fulani, Yoruba, Efik, Ibibio, Kalabari, Opobo, Beni, Tiv, Idoma, […]

The statement issued by Reuben Abati the official spokesperson for the presidency on 11TH of August 2013 criticizing the interim chairman of the APC for describing the Jonathan government as a “kindergarten presidency”, is paltry, whining and falls in the category of world class political tantrums. In a most predictable fashion, the rabid nature of […]

If nothing, but for compassionate and humanitarian reasons, the Lagos State government could have been more circumspect, considering the illegality and unconstitutionality of its forced deportation of beggars to their states of origin; as the action violates the fundamental rights of such citizens enshrined in extant sections of the 1999 constitution. Notably, the deportations constitute […]

Professor Paul Collier of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford is indeed an accomplished academic of global repute. However, I have found myself sometimes disagreeing with some of his postulations. Nevertheless, one of his propositions fascinates me a great deal. That is the greed and grievance theory of […]

The Nation Newspaper in its edition of August 8, 2013 published a shocking and mischief-laden editorial with the title, “Tin god.” It was a brazen, jaundiced, politically motivated and malicious attack on the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio CON. Not only did the editorial try to hide its bias and ill-intention, […]

Against mounting international apprehension over the re-election of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe in elections roundly condemned by the international community as a farce, the conclusion by former president Olusegun Obasanjo who headed the African Union (AU) observer mission; that the polls were “free, honest and credible” is baffling and most embarrassing to his person and his […]

There has been so much brouhaha in the Nigerian media, including print and the electronic media especially some private bloggers who recently out of either malice or ignorance have presented to the public the “unsustainable” public debt levels of Lagos state, which to me, and any enlightened economist would agree, is the most financially prudently […]