Opinions

The people of Imo State and Nigerians in general woke up Wednesday, 28 January 2015 to read frightening stories in the media on how former Governor Ikedi Ohakim assaulted and battered his friend, Dr. Viatlis Orikeze Ajumbe. Some of the reports in the newspapers said Chief Ohakim wanted to kill Dr. Ajumbe. Despite that the […]

In the end, the ugly rumours proved spot on.  For one reason or the other, Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are too jittery to go to the polls right now.  It appears that they were rattled, feared a likely loss to the All Progressive Alliance (APC) in the presidential election so […]

Nigeria’s knife-edge general elections were thrown into increasing doubt after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cowered to pressure from the military and postponed the elections for six weeks, ostensibly because no soldiers will be available to provide security if the vote held on February 14 as initially scheduled. After contentious and rancorous meetings with […]

What you are about to read is a true account of the gross impunity that has largely characterised decision making on those matters which affect our nation’s treasury; ironically, such gross mismanagement has lately been extolled in the media as best practice by a former custodian of public funds. Please read on. “Media reports at […]

I am really saddened and deeply troubled by the turn of events over the last few days by the tone of the debate on the economy and the personalities involved. The two principal actors are people who are not just close to me, but respected internationally in the field of economics. In his latest article, […]

The announcement by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), that it has extended the deadline for registered voters to collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to Sunday, February 8, 2015 sounds like a good warning to compel citizens’ participation, but this belated extension seems to be a case of the cure becoming the disease. To […]

For failing to meet its constitutional responsibilities to protect its territorial integrity and assure the security and welfare of its citizens, the world would no longer sit idly by and watch the unfolding carnage and human savagery perpetrated by Boko Haram terrorists. The federal government’s insistence that it does not need an international force to […]

In the wake of the ongoing campaigns leading to the forthcoming elections, several issues have been conjectured against President Goodluck Jonathan by a cross section of the electorate claiming that he is clueless, weak and indecisive leader. The oppositions as expected have exerted great efforts in attempting to promote these perspectives as facts and have […]

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition had accounted that at least 10 million children are affected by stunting in Nigeria. This is excluding 11.7 million children approximated that will be affected by stunting by the year 2025.  It’s manifest that unending consequence of malnutrition will befall the mental and physical development of children. The World […]

There was this story we were told in the University of an Indian Surgeon who was recruited by the Kwara State government then to work in the state hospital. This surgeon was so good in performing surgery that virtually all the surgeries he had performed were successful. Unfortunately as fate would have it, the government […]

In about two weeks, precisely 14 February 2015, Nigeria, African most populous country, will go to the polls to elect its president. The election is perhaps the most closely contested election since its independence from the British in 1960. The two presidential front runners–Messrs Goodluck Jonathan, the incumbent president of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) […]

Notwithstanding the uncertainties and fears preceding the elections, and the divisive and hostile tones in the current campaigns, all patriotic Nigerians of goodwill must ensure the country remains united during and after the forthcoming polls regardless of the existing religious, regional and ethnic fault lines. For the second time, President Goodluck Jonathan; a Christian from […]