Opinion Corner

By Patrick Cole IT was about 1 pm. We were transfixed to our Television as we watched unbelievably as one plane plunged into one of the Twin Towers in the World Trade Centre in New York. People thought this might be a trailer for a new action thriller film. An hour or so later another plane struck the second Tower …

Nigerians will not forget in hurry, the intrigues and delays that characterized the attempts by previous administrations to reform the petroleum industry in Nigeria. The Oil and Gas Sector Reform Implementation Committee was set up and the outcome of the committee’s work formed the basis for the initial draft of PIB. The bill was re-drafted by Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration …

What befell Nigeria as a result of the barbaric abduction of 14-year-old Ese Oruru to Kano by Yunusa Dahiru has further confirmed the notion that those in privileged positions of authority lack empathy. Their conspiracy of silence and non-challant attitude even when the family concerned made frantic efforts to secure the release of their daughter is synonymous with erecting social, …

Agriculture, if given the needed attention, is capable of creating about 70 per cent of jobs for the unemployed youths. Unemployment today is one of the greatest challenges of this country and for the Muhammadu Buhari-led change administration. Agriculture being a sector that requires a large labor force, can help create employment for the large number of unemployed able-bodied men …

I wish to begin by thanking God Almighty for answering the prayers of the Nigerian masses and granting their wish in making their saviour, President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, our president in the 2015 general elections. For almost 15 years, Nigerians have been yearning for the return of the people’s General and there was no better time for President Buhari to …

All those that are attempting to distort the narrative about the tragic plight of Miss Ese Oruru are evil and we commit them to God’s judgement. The facts are as follows. She is 14 years old and not 18 and she was abducted from her home. She did not leave her home freely or of her own volition. She was …

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. …