Opinions

The rather combative riposte by the Presidency, to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, after he criticized President Muhammadu Buhari of running the country aground and making Nigeria a basket case and a failed state, once again advertises in dramatic fashion, the absence of grace in the highest realms of governance; and this certainly cannot be in […]

  The continuous silence by President Muhammadu Buhari over the jaw-dropping revelations of monumental corruption, financial recklessness and mismanagement in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), though hardly surprising, is scandalous and unacceptable, given that Nigeria’s diverse and growing security challenges are partly rooted in widespread poverty, which in turn, are outcomes of pervasive corruption. […]

Amid the worsening poverty, widening inequality, widespread insecurity and jaw-dropping revelations of monumental corruption oozing out of the NDDC, it was obvious President Muhammadu Buhari wanted to reassure Nigerians with a seeming resolve to genuinely address the life and death challenges facing the country. Buhari, while receiving letters of credence from envoys of eight countries […]

Although the Judiciary never ceases to amuse Nigerians with its controversial positions on important national issues, the July 31, 2020 controversial court verdict that acquitted the psychopathic Adamawa thug called Senator Elisha Cliff Abbo from the gender-based assault and violence charges brought against him by Ms. Osimibibra Warmate, is bizarre and ridiculous; and certainly a […]

The ordinary Nigerian may not be a soldier or military strategist; but it is logical to question the innocuous merry-go-round by President Muhammadu Buhari, who has been holding endless and useless meetings with governors and the service chiefs amid the recent spike of attacks by bandits and Boko Haram insurgents that continues to claim the […]

Like a melodrama in a badly scripted movie, the ominous threat by Christians in the southern part of Kaduna State to take the laws into their hands and embark on self-defence, ostensibly because the state government, to which they submitted their security under the social contract, has failed or refuses to act to protect them, […]

Nigerian Muslims joined the counterparts worldwide over the weekend to celebrate Eid-el-Kabir; the holiest festival in the Muslim calendar, which honors the uncharacteristic willingness of the Prophet, Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isma’il as an act of submission to Allah’s command, before Allah informed him that his sacrifice had already been accepted, hence there was […]

The ridiculous threat by Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, warning the House Committee on Treaties and Protocols to halt its probe of a $500 million loan from the Chinese government is cheap blackmail and certainly not in the public interest. Appearing during an investigative hearing of the committee on Wednesday, Amaechi warned lawmakers that probing loans […]

The jaw-dropping revelations on the quantum of corruption that has become the trademark of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), and the alleged involvement of lawmakers may be sordid and disgraceful, but it is pertinent to admit that the scandalous extra-budgetary and financial malfeasance to the tune of N81.5 billion currently rocking the NDDC has […]

The controversial decision by the House of Representatives to sue the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, for criminal perjury and civil defamation, was bizarre and laughable to say the least; and certainly a sad commentary on the Nigerian legislature; to which much has been entrusted and from which much is expected. Shortly after […]

  Even as Nigerians revel in the public spectacle of allegations and counter-allegations between Niger Delta Minister, Godswill Akpabio and the former acting managing director of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the tantalizing revelation by the Senate ad-hoc committee that a whooping N81.5 billion has been misappropriated at […]

Some stories are best told straight. True or not, the allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct against the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio by Ms. Joi Gbene Nunieh, former acting managing director of the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) is most embarrassing to Akpabio’s image as […]