Opinion Corner

In this piece, TUNDE ODESOLA examines the events likely to shape the country’s political outlook in the leap year For the discerning, the clear handwriting on the wall needs no interpretation; the time of famine is catching up on a profligate nation of thieving, shameless leaders and a largely brainwashed following. For Nigeria, today is the first blank page of …

By Femi Fani-Kayode The first part was published last week Is it any wonder that on October 12, 1960, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sadauna of Sokoto and the Premier of the Northern Region, said: “This new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grandfather, Uthman Dan Fodio. We must RUTHLESSLY prevent a change of power. We must …

By Femi Fani-Kayode ‘’Do not call a conspiracy what these people call a conspiracy, neither fear ye their fear but sanctify the Lord your God in your heart and let Him be your only fear”- ISAIAH 8:12 In an essay, titled, ‘’Afenifere: A Syllabus Of Errors’’, written in 1998 and published in Gamji.com, Emir Sanusi Lamido Sanusi wrote the following: …

The Nigeria Governors Forum recently expressed worries that more states may not be able to pay workers salaries if the revenue of the country continues to be on the decline. The NGF, through its chairman, Governor Abdul’aziz Yari of Zamfara, said “the situation is no longer the same when we use to pay N18, 000 minimum wage when oil was …

By Kennedy Emetulu If , as is likely, Prince Abubakar Audu, the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in the ongoing Kogi election has passed on, then a legal question to be decided by INEC and the courts is unquestionably before us, because the Constitution and the Electoral Act seemingly make no provisions for death of a candidate at this point …

More than 2.5billion people in the world today lack basic toilets and about a billion people practice open defecation. About one hundred and sixty-five millions of these people are stunted and are to be found mostly in countries like India, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Indonesia, China etc. It is a common thing in most households in Nigeria to hear parents telling …

The Federal Account Allocation Committee (FAAC) allocated the sum of 4.19trillion as 13% Mineral Revenue Derivation to the Niger Delta States from May 1999 to July 2014, out of which the six South-South States got N2.511 trillion or about 60% of the total. All of these monies collected by these States in the South-South have not reflected positively in the …

Constitution says there shall be 12 Commissioners and a National Chairman By Jide Ajani President Muhammadu Buhari should not allow Nigerians to go away with the impression that he does not seem to have respect for the Constitution in the area of the structure of Nigeria’s election management body. The 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria did not …

By Obi Nwakanma President Muhammadu Buhari’s sacking of sixteen Permanent Secretaries, and appointment of seventeen new ones to replace them seems to me a mistake. The office of the president from which the announcement of this mass removal of the Permanent Secretaries was made, did not give any real details regarding the whys and the wherefores of this presidential action. …

The media is and should be guided by ethics. At a time when a good number of journalists with integrity are trying to clean up the media profession and play the unbiased role given to it by the constitution, the likes of hungry reporters of this nature continue to rubbish the profession as a result of their gluttonous tendencies, greed …