Opinion Corner

By Louis Odion, FNGE So, as conscientious bearer of national memory, we certainly know the real soldiers of fortune, the double agents, who sought to profiteer from the sacrifice of others, just as we can distinguish the fake labor activists in funny costumes who chanted “Aluta” in daylight but cavorted with the evil generals at night as informants on the …

By Dr. Dickson Jesuorobo While other ethnic groups are spending time developing economic policies and implementation plans for their states, some of our Edo people are busy spewing out venom and negatively criticizing the well-intended efforts of others, thereby, reinforcing the stereotype of uma igba n’edo. I challenge those that are passionately and aggressively trying to destroy the work of …

By Hilary Odion Evbayiro In the aftermath of the unexciting reactions to the Flavour convention-connection, it is necessary to reflect on where things went wrong and how the unfortunate occurrence can be avoided in future.  Without mincing words and with no empathy to those involved in the Flavour confusion, I dare to say that the decision to engage Flavour as …

By Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa The Zamfara APC case was initiated by aggrieved members of the party pursuant to section 87(10) of the Electoral Act. By the said action members of that party challenged the competence of the process employed during the primaries for the nomination of party candidates outside the period allowed by INEC in the Federal High Court. INEC …

Niran Adedokun; (nadedokun@gmail.com) Last week in Abuja, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari, Aisha, again hit at her husband’s worn-out first term. Given that the attack, which was on the perceived ineffectiveness of the Social Investment Programme, the poster welfare programme of the administration, came on the eve of the end of its first term, there is a chance it might be …

By Louis Odion, FNGE In contemporary Nigeria, no one presents a more compelling parallel than All Progressive Congress. On the eve of its supposed hour of glory, the ruling party was in the news across the federation for the wrong reasons — troubles stirred by its own mutation of the metaphorical midnight children, increasingly constituting a nightmare to the nation …

By Louis Odion, FNGE Thanks to Omoyele Sowore, anyway, for the new interest in marijuana (a.k.a. ganja, Igbo or “wee wee”) for medical and industrial use in Nigeria. He kindled the conversation while on the hustings leading to the last presidential polls. Consistent with his advocacy for fresh idea or “disruptive thinking,” the Sahara Reporters publisher contended that the global …

By Louis Odion, FNGE Breaking a decade silence in a Punch interview at the weekend, the grandma, once glorified as the “Amazon” of the nation’s banking world, would have us believe that she fell on SLS’s sword in 2009 because the then Central Bank governor saw her as “threat” to his job. In the said interview, Madam Ibru sounded more …

By Louis Odion, FNGE Against the backcloth of the recent discovery in Nigeria of a vast tribe of mute billionaires across the country with vast fortunes locked down in bank vaults (a good number with little or no visible source of income), Galbraith’s theoretical template would then sound more like a vacuous abstraction here indeed. The shock find was enabled …

By Louis Odion, FNGE From statistics, out of over 72,000 medical doctors registered with the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria as at 2018, almost half have migrated abroad in search of better pay and working environment. What that simply means is that Nigeria today can only boast of less than 40,000 doctors to a population of 200million, a far …