Opinion Corner

The death threats against Javier in reprisal for his reporting on organized crime and corruption continued until his brutal murder on Tuesday in his home city of Culiacán, but he refused a life in exile or a life without journalism. “To die,” he said in an interview with CPJ, “would be to stop writing.” In the midst of a particularly …

By Tabia Princewill Hidden motives and agendas dominate our politics and processes where the single shared objective is often how to defraud the state and its citizens. Nigeria gradually corrupts even the purest of souls who become convinced that it is impossible to get ahead without sullying one’s self. I had a conversation recently with a lawyer whose firm is …

The Daily Trust newspaper has published an interesting feature story (May 15), on the sudden surge in the number of First Class degrees being churned out by Nigerian universities. Daily Trust reports that its investigation reveals that in the last five years, 16 Nigerian universities have produced a total of 3, 499 first class graduates. Between 2011 and 2016, 12 …

In the Niger Delta struggle, we must be careful not to play into the hands of those who promote what I may call the Abuja Agenda. These are instruments with strings seeking to control certain elements in the Niger Delta and promote a certain agenda through violence. We must be careful not to allow the merchants of ethnicity hijack the …

Contrary to the impression given by Chief Ozekhome, suspending a senator for 6 months is not a tea party and no one must give the Senate that impression. With respect to Ndume, did the Senate comply with its own Rules? From the facts in public domain, Ndume raised a matter of privilege under order 15 of the Senate Rules and …

The Transparency International, TI, 2016 Corruption Perception Index has it that among the 176 countries and territories featured in the corruption research, very few countries could beat the global average mark of 43. But most countries fell below the average line of corruption index, including Nigeria. The failure by successive governments to implement feasible and sustainable infrastructural development, as captured …

By John Mayaki Like an errant child, the Edo State Chapter of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has done it again. In a reckless press conference that displayed the opposition party’s penchant for acting unheedingly to details, PDP swaggered into town, like a mouse into a cattery, attempting fruitlessly to vilify both the All Progressives Congress and Governor Godwin Obaseki. …

By Fani-Kayode “We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism and we will not allow it to take root in our country…….we will wipe it off the face of the earth”- President Donald J. Trump. Now that is a real President talking! Sadly our ailing Head of State does not possess such a mindset and neither does he share such a disposition. …

By Femi Fani-Kayode President Donald J. Trump summed it up rather well when he said, in reference to the Islamist terrorists and those that derive joy from committing genocide against Christians, that “they are sneaky dirty rats. They blow up people in a shopping centres and they blow up people in a church”. He went on to say “we are …

BY FEMI FANI-KAYODE Apostle Johnson Suleman affair better than the words of the Southern Kaduna-based Pastor Owojaye Matthew. He said, “you want to arrest Christian clergymen who asked Christians to defend themselves against killer FULANI Herdsmen while you allow hundreds of foreign FULANI herdsmen invading Nigeria to kill and maim CHRISTIANS and take over their lands! DSS, tread softly! Do …