Opinion Corner

The title of this essay is not original. The credit for its invention should go to one of the military governors during the Babangida or Abacha military era. He was at an event organised by his wife in the state and when it was time for him to make a speech, he began by saying something like this: “I want …

Those who are in possession of the foreign loot are less than 3% of Nigeria’s population of about 170million people. This mind-boggling amount is equivalent to Nigeria’s budget for the next seven years. One-fifth of this stolen wealth of N5trillion is the budget of the embattled North-Eastern region by the dreaded Boko Haram for the past 11 years. By Charles …

By Sandra Eguagie I read a curious  story on sexual harassment in the Vanguard newspaper, Friday August 14th, 2015 titled ”Sexual harassment in which the writer said that Nigeria badly needs effective laws against sexual harassment.” Before I add my voice to this epidemic that is eating deep into the Nigerian society, perhaps we should consider Chapter four of the …

By Gboyega Amoboye The late Chief Obafemi Awolowo and President Muhammadu Buhari might have lived at different times but, like identical twins, possess many things in common-dynamism, pragmatism, integrity, self- discipline, vision and passion-to make Nigeria work. The impeccable past of these tested leaders has proved that the bane of the country’s slow development since independence has been lack of …

It all looks as the clash of desperate and vaunting ambitions. It is, and a lot more. Mr. Bukola Saraki, who emerged senate president from the pit of political debauchery and vicious backstabbing of his political party, evidently believed that Nigeria is a sort of unfinished family business. Son of the former senate majority leader in the second republic, the …

BY DELE MOMODU Fellow Nigerians, let me confess that in over 30 years of writing no President has ever reacted directly or positively to my constant admonitions, lamentations or commendations. Rather, most of the time, their aides, cronies and acolytes used to fire darts and barbs at us from every direction. We were called unprintable names that our parents did …

By Sonny Atumah Bravo! I have been vindicated on subsidy. President Muhammadu Buhari you indeed understand what subsidy is. We have been clamouring for transparency, honesty and accountability in running the affairs of the NNPC. Last Monday, the President aligned himself with my campaign that subsidy removal was not the issue but the management of our petroleum resources. According to …

By Abdullahi Suleiman Otiwe Before dawn is the pregnant night All circled by the cloud of darkness Light they withheld by federal strength Dream upon dream but none came to pass Such is but single man’s fate in odd world Facing the struggles against forces of darkness Alas! The people gathered in bundle To banished the rotten wood Here comes …

I have cited the above examples to show that neither the PDP, nor the APC that dethroned the PDP for the first time in more than 55 years in Nigeria has anything other than selfish interest at heart. It is a complete outrage that Bukola Saraki, who destroyed the PDP for his own selfish gain is attempting the same thing …

Our president, Mr. Buhari, must ride the tide and wave of this time to speak and mobilize Nigerians to rise up to the challenges of the time to fight corruption in both  private and public life, denounce ill –gotten wealth, and rebuff those who are responsible for the misery in the land. These looters of our treasury have caused darkness, …