Opinion Corner

In the past few months and weeks, I have played host to many concerned Nigerians who have continued to express legitimate and patriotic worry about the state of affairs in the country. Some of them have continued to agonize about the turn of events and expressly worried why we have not gotten our leadership compass right as a country with …

In life, there are times when one takes a bold stand against certain actions, behaviours or relationships. One reaches this decision after careful, soul-searching reflection. This state of mind – the breaking off from old ways – most often happens after one must have navigated a bend and encountered a better deal, a more promising future, one that ensures that …

In my search for a fitting description of the way and manner the Edo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ravaged Edo State while the party was in power in the state, the Biblical years of the Locust came to mind. Wikipedia describes locusts as “certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the family Acrididae that have a swarming phase. These insects are …

It was so hard last week to watch the Markurdi video of trailer-loads of caskets bearing the bodies of the over 70 persons killed by suspected cattle herdsmen in Benue State. Imagine the awful scene: rows and rows of caskets of lives suddenly and needlessly terminated in just one theatre of violence, being transported to a mass burial, watched or …

By Chris Azebamwan Since the APC’s Mega Rally in Benin City, where former PDP leaders defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) on Friday, January 19, Chris Nehikhare has not known peace. Those close to him say he has been lamenting about the fate of the dying party and his dwindling political value in the state’s political space. Nehikhare’s …

By Chris Osa Nehikhare To APC, PDP is like the owl. The mere sight of the owl, instills fear. If it hoots, they shiver in fear. If it’s quiet, their fear consumes them. The decamping of two or three former PDP members triggered the fear button of APC and Adams Oshiomhole. Adams Oshiomhole couldn’t stop talking Today we heard the …

By Louis Odion As the nation groped in fuel darkness during the Yuletide season, the Nobel laureate’s distraught words perhaps best described the shame and tragedy of it all. The authorities in Abuja would rather indulge in the profanity of buck-passing, lamented Professor Wole Soyinka. That climate of shame would appear to have grown even more inclement and the midnight …

By Imam Imam Six years ago, five young Nigerians graduated from Usmanu Danfodio University with a bachelor’s degree in Law and were on the verge of missing admission into the Nigerian Law School due to lack of finances. Over dinner, it was mentioned to the then Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, of the dire situation …

By Desmond Agbama The wickedness, greed, insensitivity and lack of concern for the welfare and well-being of ordinary Nigerians by some of our leaders and businessmen, especially in the petroleum industry have resurfaced again with unending queue at filling stations across the country. It has become a tradition in Nigeria for people to experience fuel scarcity and arbitrary hike in …

By Dr. Ehiogie West-Idahosa Section 153 of the 1999 constitution provides for the establishment of the National Judicial council (NJC). The functions of NJC are set out in paragraphs b & d of Item 21 of the Third Schedule to the Constitution and include the exercise of disciplinary control over judicial officers. This is the umbrella upon which the NJC …