Opinion Corner

By Igbotako Nowinta During the Presidential Election on February 25, 2023, Wike and his co-traitors abandoned the course of progress and national interest, and through a combination of trickery and gangsterism groveled before Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the APC. While hiding under the pretext of democracy they became insidious and ruthless enemies of our country. They simply reduced themselves to …

By Erasmus Ikhide It is common knowledge that between 1993 and 2016, successive Nigerian regimes have spent through the NNPC, about $6.065 billon on the so-called Turn Around Maintenance (TAN), and rehabilitation of the four refineries at various times. It is in the public domain that the Turn Around Maintenance of the refineries was not carried out, yet APC/Buhari’s government …

By Erasmus Ikhide A cursory inquiry into the opaque Dangote Refinery revealed that the Nigeria stock exchange does not have any record of share sales in the Refinery, other than the NNPC alleged 20 per cent investment. That has put further lies to the claims of Godwin Emefiele, even though Nigerians are already aware that Dangote Refinery was built with …

By Erasmus Ikhide We’re all living witnesses to how town criers were deployed to the streets of Lagos, warning foreigners to remain indoors on the days of elections, to avoid the raw wrath of Eyo festival and all the other dreaded masquerades in the state. In totality, conservative analyses showed how 109 hapless citizens paid the ultimate price for no …

By Maxwell Oshodin Speaking of 2023 presidential election, don’t allow anyone buy or bully you into voting anyone you know isn’t the right candidate – those who lack the requisite qualifications to govern and rescue Nigeria from its present socio-political and economic quagmire. As the countdown to the presidential election continues in our dear country, it has become necessary to …

By Bidemi Nelson Racheal (not real name) is a 12-year-old girl who lives in an urban area of one of the Southwest States in Nigeria but cannot read. She tried to keep it a secret because it embarrassed her until she was specifically asked to read a portion of the Bible in her church’s children class. Amid tears, she blurted out …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku November 16th, 2022, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman wrote Nigerians a letter. In that letter, the INEC chairman said that there were only a hundred days left for the general elections in 2023.  The part of Prof Yakubu’s letter which struck home was in paragraph three wherein he said that ‘our (INEC) loyalty is to Nigerians …

By Bob MajiriOghene Etemiku The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report in 2020 say that Gombe power is in its agricultural produce: sorghum, millet and allied seed-based produce. While the report said that an important sector of the Gombe economy is ‘others’, it also indicated that there is a service sector accounting for a single digit influence on the state’s …

By Victor Ogiemwonyi Those who fear we may be back, to the 1984 confusion, the last time we did this, should realize, that most people have their money in the Banks now, backed by their ATM cards and the various channels to reach their money. The 1984 scenario is completely different. The recent experience in India, where a similar policy …

By Victor Ogiemwonyi The two things ASUU should fight for, are its autonomy, for universities to run their affairs and a commitment from Government to provide a certain level of support that can be written into law, with the instrumentality to enforce it. For instance, the Federal Government should commit to contributing 15%-20% of its annual Budget to Education. This …