Opinions

Nigeria is truly at a cross roads because the usual enemies of Nigeria are again in the forefront making suggestions that can only lead to further strive. The indisputable fact is that the only part of the country that are truly treated unjustly are the oil producing areas of Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom. […]

Dear Dino Melaiye, With the whole land now in the frenzy of religious indoctrination induced by the on-going fasting season, I am sure that the sing-song on the mouth of many Muslims will now be – “awe ngbo mi” – I am weakened by fasting. However, since you are a committed Christian, I know that […]

It is now official: over 50 per cent of Nigeria’s estimated 180 million people are miserable and live in misery and poverty. With grim figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which put Nigeria’s unemployment and under employment rate at 50 per cent, the latest assessment by the Switzerland-based World Economic Forum (WEF) […]

I believe that it is not only the height of naivety but also deeply insulting to say that the way to stop the Biafran agitation is to offer the Igbo cake. Quite apart from that I find it curious, incredulous and somewhat patronising that those behind the “Biafra at 50” event, which took place at […]

The most painful and mind boggling dilemma in issuing rebuttals is the attempt to challenge respected professional colleagues who should know the truth from fallacy. Wrong actions of current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari have compelled some of us to take the pain and risk of disproving false allegations and reckless insinuations on innocent people […]

Amid rumors of an imminent military take-over of the government, the dramatic warnings by military authorities to soldiers not to honor invitation by some politicians to stage a military coup have raised red flags that portend dire consequences for peace, stability and national unity. It is sad that Nigeria’s political class has not learnt any […]

I am very worried now. Ever since 1966 the northern ruling class has ALWAYS effected a coup d’etat whenever they feel sufficiently threatened with the loss of power. The only time that they failed to do this, to their eternal regret, was when President Goodluck Jonathan succeeded President Umaru Yar”Adua after the latter’s death in […]Read More

After over five months of tacky prevarication, the National Assembly last Thursday passed the 2017 Appropriation Bill, increasing the overall budgetary expenditure as presented last December by the president from N7.298 trillion to N7.441 trillion. It is a telling sign of the times that the debt service provision is the third largest component of the […]

Two developments that happened in Nigeria this past week, serve as pointers that the amber lights of corruption are still aglow even in the face of the onslaught against corruption by the present regime. The marriage of former Head of State [he prefers to be addressed as President] Ibrahim Babangida’s daughter and the launching of […]

The sensational report the other day that Nigeria lost N523 billion to gas-flaring between 2015 and 2016, is certainly no complimentary news. Data from the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) showed $850 million (N306 billion) was lost to gas-flaring in 2015, and Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) latest report put losses to gas-flaring in 2016 […]

Despite calls by lawmakers, labor groups, civil society organizations, and indeed just about any patriotic citizen interested in openness in governance on them to render accounts, the federal government as represented by the anti-graft agencies (EFCC), has pointedly refused to explain exactly how much of the stolen billions have so far been recovered in the […]

There are important lessons to be learnt from the detention and recent release of the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), a breakaway faction of the Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra. MASSOB was formed in 1999 by Ralph Uwazurike, an Indian-trained lawyer ostensibly to realize the Biafra. In 2005 […]