Opinions

Dear Editor, I read your editorial of above title. Permit me to post my opinion on the issue which i recently circulated on social media as a response to a report titled ‘Why Orji Uzor Kalu’s seat won’ t be declared vacant’, carried online by Premium Times on 8th December 2019. The report quotes the […]Read More

It is indeed sad, if not pathetic, that the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly has become an embarrassing symbol of how not to be representatives of the people. The hallowed chambers of the Nigerian Senate has been rocked by scandals – from the recruitment scandal to the budget padding scandal by principal officers […]

Nothing underscores more the culture of greed, insensitivity and impunity that has crept into the public service of Nigeria than the scenario of multiple remuneration and pension schemes for serving public officers who previously served and pensioned in other capacities. This obnoxious practice involves high office holders such as cabinet ministers, governors, senators, and top […]

What is now clear in words and in deed is that Nigerians are amongst the most lawless people on earth and the Buhari administration may just have set the tone for executive lawlessness with the assault against the judiciary arm of government after last Friday’s unprecedented invasion of the Federal High Court in Abuja by […]

Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi experienced a dose of the peoples’ anger in faraway Madrid Spain, where he was attacked by some Nigerians as he took part in the 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference, dubbed COP25. Although Amaechi was lucky to have been rescued by Spanish police officers who whisked him off the venue to […]

The closure of Nigeria’s land borders to the movement of goods and persons, since October 2019, has understandably been generating intense debates among Nigerians and others, especially the countries affected by the border closures. Nigeria shares land boundaries with Benin, Niger and Cameroun. The government had initially imposed a partial closure of the borders in […]

Members of the Nigerian National Assembly, and by extension lawmakers across the country, have been under scrutiny lately with regard to their engagements with citizen-voters whose interest they are expected to represent in parliament. Two issues: constituency projects and constituency offices. President Muhammadu Buhari brought the issue of constituency projects to public attention when at […]

Nigeria signed the Extradition Treaty with the United State in December 22, 1931 and entered into force in June 24, 1935. There is no public record showing the extradition of US citizens to Nigeria since the treaty became effective in 1935.The actual treaty was between the UK and the US. Automatically, Nigeria was bound by […]

The results of the Saturday November 16 2019 off-season polls in Kogi and Bayelsa States, as announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission have, as expected, been mired in controversy. The two elections were marred by violence as projected by many analysts in the run-up to the elections. According to the Election Analysis Committee of […]

Electoral malpractices have become a recurring decimal in Nigeria and have incrementally worsened since the return to democracy in 1999. Something is fundamentally wrong. Nigeria’s renascent democracy has been threatened by blatant corruption and sundry abuses, but these absurdities which have assumed melodramatic proportions got the most devastating advertisement after last Saturday’s gubernatorial elections in […]

“The 36 State Governors intend to demand that “theirstates’ share andthose of the local governments from the Federation account” revenue accruals bedistributed in the selfsame currency collected. That intentionis borne out ofdissatisfaction with net Federation Account (FA) oil exportproceeds madeavailable for distribution among beneficiaries, after theunilateral deductionsby NNPC of amounts to offset self-styled petrol priceunder-recovery. […]

  In September 2019 I tweeted the following to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.    “Ambassador Ayo Oke, the former Director General of the Nigerian Intelligence Agency, took care of you. He paid your bills and protected you. He kept all your dirty little secrets. He gave you wise counsel and comforted you even when you […]