Opinion Corner

To rid the community of the Josephine virus, the challenge goes beyond the standard argument that government should create more opportunities for the teeming population at home. No less urgent is the need to reclaim the values that had nourished the society in the past. Perhaps, the first step in this direction should be a greater commitment to the sense …

Our petroleum industry accounts for over 40 percent of Nigeria’s gross domestic product with billions of dollars investments worth. Despite this enormous wealth, there have been a conspicuous absence of indigenous players in these transactions, where about 90 percent of the equipment and personnel used in the industry are imported, causing capital flight from our economy. By Dr. Blessing Agbomhere …

For the education of Nigerians yet unborn or too young to understand the main issue during that historic decade, Chief Anenih’s moral stamina failed him in the hour of temptation. Lacking character when it mattered most, Anenih led the colluding faction of SDP leadership that acquiesced to Babangida’s inducement to trade June 12 away. Even while the knife that stabbed …

While now dismissing both APC and PDP as “wrecked vehicles,” OBJ speaks as though the rest of us are the proverbial Bourbons afflicted by incurable amnesia. If nothing at all, he should, at least, accept responsibility for nourishing the umbrella party on the diet of impunity in its first eight formative years.When his last-ditch desperation to grab power after Third …

By charging the PDP operatives with money laundering, is the Buhari Government suggesting that members of APC and those of other political parties never distributed such funds for campaign and election purposes during the period under reference? They can tell that to the marines. The other parties distributed funds likewise. How were the funds that delegates received in Lagos during …

Even more hilarious – if not disturbing – was the reaction of the police authorities to the embarrassing footage. Of course, there is no denying that the clip was doctored (a reminder of the increasing danger technology poses to even the spoken words) and that Idris’ “enemies” helped fuel it. But there can be no denying one truth also: there …

Since President Muhammadu Buhari declared an intention to run for a second term after months of speculation, his critics have taken him to the cleaners. There is nothing that has not been said about his intention to contest again. But one big question keeps hanging. Where is the formidable opposition that can stop him at the polls? Perhaps, the All …

I never sought a senatorial seat on the platform of APC. I did on the platform of PDP. In any case, Odion’s story confirms my call for Benin political renaissance. If indeed Oshomhole can influence how a senate seat is occupied in Benin province from Iyamoh, a village in Edo North Senatorial District, it is enough reason to justify the …

As a conscientious Bini man and one, who as Information Commissioner had the privilege of a ringside view of events leading to Oyegun’s coronation as national chair in 2014, this writer does not only feel implicated but also slandered by such false conclusion. As anyone might observe, one has not been shy to be counted among Oyegun’s critics as national …

For Oshiomhole, the Benin people must not be allowed so much national or local political influence in order to prevent them from acquiring the impetus to invoke the power in their superior population in directing the political affairs of the State. Oyegun’s continued stay as National Chairman would mean that the Benin people are gradually gaining political relevance at the …