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Category: Opinions/Columnists
OPINION – Queen Elizabeth II: Life after death
Far away, in Britain, Queen Elizabeth II’s paternal uncle, King Edward VII, sat on the throne…
OPINION – Holding the Queen accountable in death
Most of those who vented their anger on the dying or dead queen believed that their…
OPINION: The Nigerian relevance of Queen Elizabeth
How is it that the British are so proud of their monarchy as an institution, which…
OPINION – Examining Uju Anya’s vitriol on Queen Elizabeth II
While it is nice to beatify Queen Elizabeth as it is being done all over the…
OPINION – Ethnic profiling and 2023 campaigns
Nigerians may be in for a rough deal, perhaps, worse than they are having, if the…
OPINION – The culture of life and the culture of death
It is tragic that a culture that prides itself as communitarian and solidaristic is the one…
How I was tortured in the prison – Inibehe Effiong, human rights lawyer
Immediately the Uyo prison gate was opened, Eyoren ordered me to sit on the floor…
OPINION: Mikhail Gorbachev, Nigeria, and hard choices
Nigeria needs a leader in the ilk of Gorbachev with the sincerity of purpose and courage…
OPINION : Where will Tinubu, Atiku, Obi’s multibillion naira campaign funds come from?
For instance, the new electoral act 2022 contains very robust sections on campaign financing, ceilings and…
Okpaleke and the Journey to Rome
The organisation of the event was itself superb. Professor Fr. Anthony Chiegboka, Fr. Christian Umeojinaka, Fr.…
OPINION – Buhari’s footprints from home to diaspora
It is one thing to have the rich resources, it’s another thing to harness them. That…
OPINION: Between ASUU’s “quacks” and NANS’s “cracks”
The teacher spoke like a quack and the student spoke like he was on crack!” By…
OPINION – Assistant gods in our midst
Some fraudsters are also on the pulpits and are using 419 tricks to get people to…
OPINION – Why Okowa’s comment on Shettima is disappointing
It is not for the Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP to tell Asiwaju…
I am a living spirit of ideology – Rtn Onunkwo
The power given to a man is the principle of Public accountability and I am a…
OPINION – The Shy Majority
As Nigeria prepares for the polls next year, I consider America’s 2016 polling misfires a guidebook…
Obi to Nigerians in California: Don’t be weary in contributing to nation building
I enjoin you never to despair or be weary in contributing your quota towards nation-building in…
Adamu Adamu: The columnist as hypocrite
Mallam Adamu Adamu, Education Minister and his Aviation counterpart, Hadi Sirika are the shining examples of…
A Nation in Chains
Sound economic knowledge has increasingly become an attribute a Nigerian President must have given the dire…
OPINION – What is the Worth of Truth?
So what’s the value of truth? What can we exchange for the truth? The Bible says…
My encounter with A’Ibom CJ and experience in prison – Inibehe Effiong
But let us not be mistaken. I never, and I say this as a child of…
OPINION – Biyi Bandele and the heart of the matter
Biyi’s life tells a tale, a tale about giving one’s best in everything. He was a…
OPINION – It is time ASUU gives us an alternative to strikes
By Dare Babarinsa There is no doubt that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has…
OPINION: Nigeria, a beggar’s colony?
The state of the country is pathetic. We have almost reached the bottom of the pit,…
OPINION – As the Federal Government prepares to proscribe ASUU
By Achike Chude And so we are told that the federal government of Muhammadu Buhari, having…
OPINION – Understanding the OBIdients
Those of us in the larger political parties like the ruling APC and the opposition PDP,…
OPINION – Cruelty to students, poor info management, and partisanship hurting ASUU
Why would ASUU propose to punish innocent, powerless, and defenseless students because of the actions of…
OPINION – Nigeria ain’t just Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo
How do people, including those with tertiary education like this particular friend, think Northerner and Hausa-Fulani…