Category: Opinion

Louis Odion   Customarily, love is thought to be two hearts beating as one. What then defined the enigma of Abubakar Bello Masaba was an uncanny skill to stir and replicate such heartbeat in...

Muhammadu Buhari   The Naira continues to take a bashing against major currencies. there seems to be no let up. In saner climes, the Governor of the Central Bank would have voluntarily thrown in...

  I am not a happy man this bright afternoon day of August 17. I am not happy because of certain ominous signals emanating from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) convention holding in Port-Harcourt,...

  You are a 35 year old man. You say President Buhari has failed.    I ask, have you failed as a young man? You say no.   Then on what basis do you...

Nigeria’s Dream Team VI finally succumbed to Colombia earlier this morning in a 2-0 defeat in the on-going Rio Olympics games.   Our players did not particularly play so badly. They had superior ball...

Minister of Youth and Sports, Solomon Dalung   We are very funny in this country. And Youth and Sports Minister, Solomon Dalung (or is it Dalong?) seems to be most funny, or comical, of...

  I am outraged this morning.   I mean…… if ever my country Nigeria had an incompetent Minister, Youth and Sports Minister Solomon Dalong is it. How on earth did we end up with...

President Muhammadu Buhari   My President,   That sense of citizenship and duty to my fatherland which often propels me to take a position on issues of national importance has once again come upon...

A military coup? In Europe? In Turkey? In the 21st Century?   Europe has started again. It has started to spearhead the return of a political culture that was already dying.   If this...

Hadiza Bala Usman   Buhari-bashing is ok. It is his lot to be bashed. So there is no issue with that. But sometimes I can’t help but wonder what we really want as a...