Opinion Corner

Adams in his illegal and fake “triumphalism” boasted then that the courts cannot help you! He is also boasting now… He has said repeatedly, that the courts cannot help Saraki. He is shouting that Saraki must be impeached. He has used the police to stop Saraki from getting to the National Assembly, EFCC to intimidate Ike Ekweremadu and convert Akpabio. …

Even in the West ministerial Parliamentary model where having majority in parliament is so pivotal to running government business, there are many instances where the Speaker was chosen from a minority party. In 1992, Betty Bothroyd, the first female speaker of the House of Commons in UK was a Labor MP chosen in a Conservative-controlled House of Commons. What then …

Astrologers paint them in sometimes conflicting colors: generous yet needy of attention, forgiving yet vengeful, loyal yet flirty, and charming even though insecure. It is from such maelstrom of cosmic contradictions, we are made to believe, that the Leo persona crystallizes. While the rest of us may be handicapped to join in such astral speculations, what is however not in …

As could be inferred from Ambode’s prognosis, the renewed efforts to reclaim Apapa will remain unsustainable until we graduate from antiquity and join the modern world in the adoption of pipelines as the safest and cheapest means of transporting petroleum products. Pipeline vandalism should therefore be seen not only as an economic crime but also an existential threat to our …

Following Tuesday’s defection of some All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers to some opposition political parties and the resultant intrigues, Associate Editor, Sam Egburonu and Assistant Editor, Dare Odufowokan, take a look at the state of the ruling party in all the states of the federation. The defection of 50 All Progressives Congress (APC) federal lawmakers to some of the opposition …

What a cheap blackmail! Osun pensioners have sold their conscience to the opposition and involved in pre-election vote-selling and buying in the run to Osun 2018 governorship race by taking advertorial with the title THE UNABATED SUFFERINGS OF OSUN STATE PENSIONERS UNDER AREGBESOLA. The advertorial on page 9 of Nigerian Tribune Newspaper of July 16 2018 and protests are clear …

Never before has life been so cheap in our dear country. What a state of insecurity sustained by the continuous incapacity of those that the President has entrusted with such crucial assignment. The security agents should block the killing fields in our country and stop over concentrating man power on escorting VIPs and laying siege on political opponents or intimidating …

Going by reports, it was a big bazaar in which the highest bidder eventually prevailed. For once, Fayose was beaten at his own game. Civil servants received a curious N3,000 bank credit alert on the election eve for starters. Those able to show proof of “performance” on the D-Day got further N4,000 from PDP. With the aid of technology, that …

If Buhari’s ethical re-engineering exertions thus far were to be classified as an asylum, what we are witnessing could then be likened correctly to an audacious bid by some of the glaze-eyed inmates to topple the presiding therapist and take over the psychiatric ward entirely. Land or death: Patrick Henry’s statement, “Give me liberty or give me death”, had always …

It is significant to note at the onset that the concerns of most Nigerians about the use of the $322.5 million for the conditional cash transfer program, instead of a legacy project with more visibility and impact, is both valid and understandable. However, the use of the funds for cash transfers is an outcome of months of negotiation that enabled …