Category: Opinion

Like Osun, Like Delta – by Frank Ofili 0

Like Osun, Like Delta – by Frank Ofili

  If you thought Osun State was the only culpable state in terms of owing its workers arrears of salary, you are gravely mistaken.    My own state Delta, the almighty oil-producing state, with...

THE VILIFICATION OF ADESINA: AS I SEE IT – by Frank Ofili 0

THE VILIFICATION OF ADESINA: AS I SEE IT – by Frank Ofili

  Presidential Media aid, Femi Adesina, is under fire from critics over his comment in an interview on Channels TV on Sunday night that those who are blaming the government for the on-going power...

2016 BUDGET IN LIMBO 0

2016 BUDGET IN LIMBO

  PMB with-holds assent to the 2016 Appropriation Bill for lack of details.   It has been over a week since the National Assembly passed the budget, yet details of its breakdown has not...

THE EAGLES STILL SUPER? 0

THE EAGLES STILL SUPER?

  Once again, the Super Eagles failed to qualify for AFCON.    The Nigerian football is like the Nigerian political system. It rubbishes anybody no matter how good you are.   When the Super...

STILL ON ASHIWAJU’S ATTACK ON KACHIKWU 0

STILL ON ASHIWAJU’S ATTACK ON KACHIKWU

  I admire Bola Ahmed Tinubu, APC’s national leader, former senator of the Federal Republic and former governor of Lagos State. I admire him for his political sagacity; I admire him for his talent...

PARK WELL, ASHIWAJU 0

PARK WELL, ASHIWAJU

  Why am I not surprised at Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's 10 paragraph blasting of Dr. Ibe Kachikwu over the latter's innocuous admittance that he was not a magician?    Commenting on the lingering fuel...

WHAT IS WRONG WITH US NIGERIANS? 0

WHAT IS WRONG WITH US NIGERIANS?

Boko Haram bombs and kills people in Nigeria – silence. You scroll am pass.   An NYSC member on national assignment is shot dead by unknown gun men – silence. You scroll am pass. ...

WHO KILLED SAMUEL DUMEBI OKONTA? – by Frank Ofili 0

WHO KILLED SAMUEL DUMEBI OKONTA? – by Frank Ofili

  He was called to serve his fatherland as an electoral officer in the Rivers State House of Assembly and National Assembly re-run elections.    On 19th March 2016, he set out to answer...

STORM OVER NOTHING 0

STORM OVER NOTHING

The opposition to governor Nasir el-Rufai's religious regulation bill has been more vociferous from Christians. They claim it is the beginning of the Islamization of Kaduna State and, by extension, Nigeria.    That simply...

SHAME ON RIVERS STATE 0

SHAME ON RIVERS STATE

Shame on the youths of Rivers State! After you have killed yourselves for Amaechi and Wike, both would eventually go home and settle their differences and may be even share a meal from the...