Category: Opinion
Lest we forget
This is North-east Nigeria, some 3 years ago, at the height of Boko Haram insurgency. Nigerians – whole communities, villages, towns and cities – running for dear life. Those who caused this –...
Growing slowly but surely under Buhari – by Goffy Ugeh
Growing slowly but surely under Buhari We have just most recently celebrated two land mark events that speak volumes for our growing democracy. However, most intelligent celebrants appear not to want to acknowledge and...
Magu at the barricade of Abuja pirates – By Louis Odion, FNGE
Louis Odion Magu at the barricade of Abuja pirates – By Louis Odion, FNGE The introduction lately of the impeachment kite into the ongoing tussle between the executive and the legislative branches over the...
Tinubu, time to come out smoking
If Ashiwaju Bola Tinubu was politically lukewarm under Buhari, he must not be so now that his political Godson, Osinbajo, is in the saddle. Ashiwaju must now come out smoking without any pretences, unless...
Think Nigerians, think – by Frank Ofili
When the few who are benefiting from an existing order suddenly join the band wagon and begin to sing the song of change, then you had better look closely to see whether their own...
The 2017 Federal Budget Controversy
The National Assembly (NASS) has allegedly distorted the 2017 Budget. The Honourable Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has cried out that he could hardly recognize his Ministry’s own final budget as...
IBB On Restructuring?
I would respect any other person but Babangida calling for restructuring. Babangida set Nigeria on the downward slope when he annulled the June 12 1993 presidential election. He killed political apprenticeship in Nigeria when...
Random musing on restructuring – by Frank Ofili
In the hay days of IBB’s brutal dictatorship (1985 – 1993), foremost nationalist, late Chief Anthony Enahoro, the man who moved the motion for Nigeria’s Independence, formed a group known as the Movement for...
The emerging Kogi uprising – by Frank Ofili
I am aware of the constitutional processes to recalling a sitting Senator in Nigeria. Those processes are nothing short of obstacles deliberately put in the way. Why should it be so difficult to recall...
