Opinion Corner

Nigeria as a nation can be best described as a jungle where only the strong survive. Sincerity, honesty, obedience and patriotism do not pay any longer as the patient dog no longer get to eat the fattest bone. Our society appears not to be conducive to live in no wonder our youths prefer to die in the desert and Mediterranean …

When a man who is leading in a race falls down, collapses and dies in the process, his son, family members, relations, colleagues or friend cannot help him to finish the race or take over from where he stopped but rather the next person in that race who is in the second position should be awarded the first position because …

By Douglas Anele When I read in the newspapers that the President, Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari, was complaining in Ethiopia that our judiciary is his major headache in the highly dramatised programme of anti-corruption directed largely towards members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), I remembered late Chief M.K.O. Abiola’s witty remark that “the bigger the head, the bigger the headache.” …

By Tonnie Iredia On February 01, 2016, new electricity tariffs approved by the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) came into force. In a quick response, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) issued an ultimatum for a reversal of the new tariffs or else they would shut down the nation. …

Most Edo people believe that it is the right of the electorate – market women, traders, civil society, and persons with disability, Irrespective of gender to choose who governs them. It is not the prerogative of any group or political godfathers to hold brief for Edo people in determining who becomes the next governor of their state. By Charles Iyare …

Peace is engendered by truth – truth spoken by the leader and governors to the led and conversely, truth spoken without fear to the authorities by the people or what is described as, speaking truth to power. Peace is engendered but justice, fairness, equity for all, by all being under the law, the upholding of the rule of law, good …

If it can be said categorically when Lassa fever will end, why wait till April? The Health Minister also said that if nothing is done it will come back by August. Are all these just predictions that are definitive of an expectation? Or is there something more to his cryptic statements that we do not know? Nigerians have rights to …

United States of America (USA) Secretary of State, John Kerry, has narrated at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland how President Muhammadu Buhari has come to save Nigeria from destruction as a result of corruption that had even rendered the nation’s armed forces ineffective to fight Boko Haram insurgents. “When Nigeria’s President Buhari took office last spring, …

It is our fundamental right to negotiate what to pay for any goods or services. Nobody or group of persons has the right to impose any tariff on the people without consultation. By Osaze Edigin Edo state, the Heartbeat of the Nation has stood out among other states of the federation in the fight against the unfair business practices by …

We have papered over the issue of National Integration for so long that it is now staring us in the face. It is either that we discover the essence of nationhood and drive Nigeria to greatness or we will keep stuttering and never making the desired progress, with a possibility that our nation could disintegrate. By Tony Abolo The issue …