Opinions

Opinion polls commissioned by ANAP Foundation and conducted by NOI Polls (using Gallup methodology) show that President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) and his main challenger, Major-General Mohammadu Buhari (Buhari) are currently running neck-to-neck in the 2015 Presidential race. The difference between them in terms of potential votes nation wide is statistically insignificant because it is […]

We commend Professor Chukwuma Soludo for his insightful and incisive article published in the Vanguard Newspaper of January 26th under the above title. We agree with Professor Soludo that if the political parties, including ours, must justify the overwhelming enthusiasm of Nigerians about the 2015 elections we must remain focused on the issues that matter […]

Turning eighty is more than coming of age, hence the recent enrolment of three eminent senior citizens; Peter Enahoro, Festus Marinho and Odoliyi Lolomari into the sagely class of octogenarians, should be a moment of reflection for younger generations in the hope that they can learn lessons of tenacity and patriotism. And, deservedly, these men […]

 Once again supporters of the APC, whilst chanting ”sai Buhari” and carrying brooms, have stoned our candidate President Goodluck Jonathan whilst he was on his way to a rally in the north. It happened in Bauchi state. This is the second time that this has happened in two days. The first time it happened in […]

Even as the controversy over the alleged depletion of the nation’s foreign reserves and Excess Crude Account (ECA) rages on, the Nigerian economy seems to be on auto-pilot, and consequently vulnerable to flighty foreign portfolio investments, fickle foreign direct investments and measly meddlesomeness by an apex bank that operates against the national interest. The result […]

If Nigerians are to be spared the fulfilment of the damning predictions of many observers about Nigeria as a country in turmoil, come next month’s general elections, the halfway point in US President Barack Obama’s two terms is significant, as it offers Nigerian politicians a deep lesson not just on how power is won and […]

…A searching look by Danlami Aminu   History can only be based on truth. Mohammed Buhari and his supporters have been claiming that he alone can deal decisively with Boko Haram, claiming he “destroyed” the Maitatsine terrorists in the 1980s. But the truth is that the problems of rebellion and insurgency in the North of […]

The culture of fear, accentuated the other day by female suicide bombers in Maiduguri; one of them as young as 10 years old, is too horrific to be considered as just another suicide attack. This new havoc-wreaking tactic, whereby Boko Haram deploys young female suicide bombers as human bombs, is the most debasing, disdainful and […]

Clearly, the travails currently confronting our economy are as daunting as the challenges we faced as a nation during the IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) of the late 80s and early 1990s. It is apparent that the serial Naira devaluations, from stronger than one Naira to one dollar to what appeared to be an […]

No other event perhaps dramatizes the desperation of the government, than the dog-ate-my-homework presentation by the Department of State Services (DSS) as it disclosed its findings from last November’s invasion of the Lagos office of the APC. Alleging that the APC planned voter card cloning as well as a hack into the INEC voter registration […]

“Ah, you know, the chichidodo is a bird. The chichidodo hates excrement with all its soul. But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo.” — Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968).  Professor Wole Soyinka sometimes makes a […]

I must applaud myself for successfully avoiding the Rochas Okorocha’s radio interview of 5/1/15. There are several wonderful TV programmes begging for my attention, so I considered it a waste of my time to listen to Okorocha’s talk on radio which judging from his past will be nothing more than unappetizing combo of cassava-market nonsense, […]