Opinion Corner

By Louis Odion, FNGE As for OBJ, the pain of Buhari’s victory must cut deep for his remaining years. Had he kept his earlier words to quit partisan politics and transition fully to “global statesman,” perhaps what had remained of his old myth of invincibility would have been preserved. But the proverbial “shigidi” in the Yoruba fable would never hearken …

By Louis Odion, FNGE When Amosun whines, shouting himself hoarse today against “the Lagos godfather” like a schoolboy dispossessed of candy, people are left wondering whether it is not the same benefactor of yesterday, the one whose round specs exemplify embroidered broken shackle in the invocation of the motif of liberty, whose generosity had afforded him the incisors to dare …

By Dr. Hilary Evbayiro Considering how Obasanjo carefully pushed and played Atiku to the curb in 2007, it is instructive to note, at this juncture, that Atiku was visibly on the driver seat as the VP to Obasanjo when the latter handed power to a dying Yar’Adua.   Why did that happen?  If Atiku was not considered a presidential material and …

By Desmond Agbama, CPS to Oba of Benin With the elections few days away, it is imperative to remind every stakeholder about the concern of the Edo State Council of Traditional Rulers and Chiefs, particularly His Royal Majesty, Ewuare II, Oba of Benin. The Oba’s words or pronouncement is sacrosanct and must be respected, and obeyed to the latter. Everyone …

This question should be of particular interest to Nigerians as we prepare to vote in yet another election. Nigerian governments have traditionally taken a very conservative stance on social issues, choosing to support private businesses belonging to their associates over ordinary people: rather than attempt to fix the structural conditions enabling poverty, the choice has often been to pretend, for …

By Louis Odion, FNGE Again, either idle mischief or sheer economic illiteracy is demonstrated when PDP accuses Buhari of borrowing too much money since 2015. PDP’s larceny and squandermania had bled the economy so much that by the time Jonathan was exiting, even federal workers were being owed back pay for the first time in Nigeria’s history. So, Buhari’s borrowing …

By Louis Odion, FNGE In order that things do not get too complicated and the original question lost, let us, for now, conveniently ignore the growing insinuations of official hypocrisy here by not remembering that the issuant of the very order with which Onnoghen was clobbered too is yet to fully wash himself clean of similar allegation of receiving bribes …

A former president of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba, has described the suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, as an attack on the constitution. Mr Onnoghen, who was charged before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) on January 14, with offences bordering on non declaration of assets, was suspended by President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday. Mr Buhari, …

By Louis Odion, FNGE While offering clarification on the prospects of immortality, Awolowo had famously declared those who could truly be called “Awoists” in future would not necessarily be those related to him by blood or old association, but by shared values. So, if Awoism could be defined in broad terms as a fierce fidelity to a progressive ideology, stubborn …

By Dr. Matthew Ayibakuro The scandals involving the first Secretary to the Government of the Federation under the current administration, Babachir Lawal and the recent case of the former chairman, Presidential Task Force on Pension Reform, Abdul Rasheed Maina are instances that could have been handled more decisively in the context of anticorruption.  The apprehension of nepotism in appointments under …