Opinion Corner

By Emmanuel Aziken The news that President Bola Tinubu had dropped the nomination of Ruby Onwudiwe as the Southeast nominee to the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN has stoked different reactions in the country. No reason has been formally given for the withdrawal of the nomination. However, nearly all reports allege that she was dropped after reports emerged that …

By Osazua Ivbaze Senator Adams Oshiomhole’s ‘Funeral’ by Erasmus Ikhide, to which I am making this response, is the most devastating uppercut the Iyamoh politician could have received in recent times. Interestingly, Erasmus hails from Edo North, Afuze, to be specific. He was once, Oshiomhole’s SA on Media. I think Oshiomhole called for it and should therefore bear the pain. …

By Erasmus Ikhide Nigerians are obviously not in doubt that the Nigeria Police Force didn’t learn any moral lessons from #EndSARS protests that almost torpedoed the country because they are victims of emotional intelligence. The Police have demonstrated arrogantly again and again that they’re the poisoned chalice and low hanging fruits on the road to Nigeria’s destruction. Tijani Momoh’s stated …

In a 2009 book, Gideon Rose wrote that Americans think of wars as “street fights on a grand scale, with the central strategic challenge being how to beat up the bad guys.” The military leaders focus on the fighting, paying little attention to the long-term consequences. “But at some point, every war enters what might be called its endgame, and then any …

By Erasmus Ikhide Accreditation of departments is the sole responsibility of the University authorities, including the Visitor, the Governing Council, and University Management. To put the burden on students is completely fraudulent. And it’s even shocking that students pay this so-called accreditation fee every session. Simple arithmetic tells us that if 35,000 students paid N3000 (Three Thousand Naira) only each, …

By Eben Enasco Successive governments in Nigeria appear in leadership stool with different aura after the election’s breakthrough in the series since independence. The Constitution of Nigeria permits everyone with requisite qualifications to contest the presidential seat as well as other contestable political offices. Before victory in each usually dramatic democratic election conducted by an electoral predator, True Blood saw …

I want to qualify my study of last two Fridays on the Benin-Sapele-Warri Road/Highway by presenting some readers’ deep admiration for what I did. You may call it a debate which tries to recreate or to reinforce my undertaking. I am beginning with two inventors, two profound critics and artists who many persons, readers, of this column are familiar with: …

By Erasmus Ikhide It is tragic and literally eviscerating that an Acting Vice Chancellor of the State’s premier University – who lied to Governor Obaseki that he could run the University without subvention – started his job from the outset with the inauguration of dubious, deceptive, disparaging and primitive information management strategies in the 21st century to truncate the institution …

By Festus Adedayo The Atiku Abubakar voyage to Chicago in search of the true colour of Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has confirmed that Nigeria is in a more serious mess than she may think. When a people arrive at a straightforward road but assume it is an intersection where three footpaths meet, they provoke elders to see calamity ahead. …

By Bidemi Nelson It is no longer news that inflation has become globally pervasive. Nations continue to battle financial and price instability amidst various policy interventions. Macro and microeconomic prospects seem to dwindle in the wake of insecurity, the Covid-19 Pandemic, rising unemployment, geo-political fragmentations alongside trade restrictions, rising debt and climate change. More than ever before, the anticipated future …