Opinion

SIR: The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has made history as a party in power but operating as though in opposition. The acclaimed largest party in Africa has found itself in a tight corner of defending most of its policies and programmes with difficulty.    With the coming of APC as a legitimate opposition party,…

SIR: The currently leading political parties, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), exported their characters to Ghana, recently. They went to erect huge billboards in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, with the pictures of their presidential candidates together with some chieftains of the parties. Ghanaians had never seen that level of desperation;…

NIGERIANS may have borne the insult with admirable equanimity, even with some hope that something good would be the outcome of their long wait and delay. But let Professor Attahiru Jega and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as well as President Goodluck Jonathan and his security advisers not be in any doubt that with…

THE Yoruba town of Ibadan is the largest native market in Africa. The Yorubas engage in the business of planting and trading in cocoa, palm produce, timber, rubber, and kola nuts, apart from their normal food crops. They are good businessmen and women, some of whom dealt in timber, cocoa, kola nuts, trading from Lagos…

“Insults are the arguments by those who are in the wrong” (Jean-Jacques Rousseau; French Philosopher, 1712 – 1778) NIGERIANS have followed the on-going political campaign for the 2015 General Elections characterised by lack of any significant discussions about issues affecting their welfare. It was obvious from the start that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is…

THE screaming headline from a report by Bloomberg on recent developments in the Nigerian foreign exchange market leading to the organization pointedly wondered aloud if the new Governor of the Central Bank is really his own man! An unbiased assessment of this sweeping pronouncement will be to ask if this conclusion is not rather hasty,…

IT is deeply disappointing to see what has become of Turkey in the last few years. Not long ago, it was the envy of Muslim-majority countries: a viable candidate for the European Union on its path to becoming a functioning democracy that upholds universal human rights, gender equality, the rule of law and the rights…

AFRICAN nations, outraged at the atrocities being committed by Boko Haram recently demonstrated their solidarity with Nigeria by proposing to set up a regional force of 7, 500 troops to fight the rampaging terror group. Such intervention by the African nations under the aegis of the African Union (AU) is undoubtedly commendable as the threat to security posed by the terrorists requires a collective effort by Nigeria and her neighbours…

IN a previous article, I had written glowingly about the capacity of the United States of America to literally carry on its shoulders the burden of the globe without stretching to breaking points. It is the only nation on earth that can be everywhere at the same time and still function optimally. The rest of…

THE most popular headline last week was the fret by politicians that some ‘coup’ had occurred, as a result of the postponement of the general elections earlier billed to take off yesterday. There was no language some aggrieved persons did not deploy to describe the shift in date. Some said it was a re-enactment of…

AS the entire world now knows, Nigeria last week scheduled a war.  A six-week war, with specific start and end dates.     Actually, it is an old war recast differently. The enemy is well-known: Boko Haram, the ruthless enemy Nigeria has fought, and lost to, for six years.  It is the militia that has…