Category: OPINION

By Tony Eluemunor Subterfuge, deception, lies, and pure tricks (let alone wickedness and unforgiving spirit) come up when former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s name is referenced. Obasanjo has been blessed with a long life and is now either in his 80s or 90s, but he is not about to change from his well-beaten path of disdaining the truth and frustrating wisdom. Hey, is there any Nigerian who does not know that the Obasanjo administration was neck deep in the Third Term scheme or is unaware that each Senator and House of…

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Ahmed Lawan Kuru, OFR, Managing Director/CEO, Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) By Bashir Ibrahim Hassan All too often, investors in businesses who were not involved in the day-to-day running of the show look on helplessly when, owing to a variety of factors in prevailing global, national, and local economies, the fortunes of the businesses took a downward dive. As individual investors, mostly through shareholdings, and corporate players, including financial institutions – banks, leasing companies, etc. – they licked their wounds in utter helplessness.   The paradox is that much…

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By Amanze Obi THE electoral authorities in Sierra Leone have just commented on Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election. The focus was on Mr Peter Obi, who flew the flag of the Labour Party in that election. Just a few days ago, the chairman of the country’s Political Parties Regulations Commission (PPRC), Abdulai Bangura, urged politicians participating in the country’s ongoing elections to borrow a leaf from Mr Peter Obi of Nigeria. He told his countrymen and women that Obi held so much promise in the February 25 presidential election in Nigeria.…

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By Ikeddy Isiguzo Nothing is wrong about spouses sharing confidences which should normally be private. Everything is wrong with such marital bonds where they result in possible intentional miscarriage of justice. Still worse, is when one of the parties’ brags about his interference with judiciary processes as an achievement to be celebrated at the valedictory session of the Senate. Senator Adamu Muhammad Bulkachuwa chose June 10, 2023, his last day of representing Bauchi North, to thank his wife, and remind some of his colleagues that his wife assisted them. He…

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By Nwankwo T. Nwaezeigwe I have great respect for such fearless and principled Niger Delta warriors as His Majesty King Ateke Tom— Amanyanabo of Okrika Kingdom of Okochiri and Chief Tompolo Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo. These are men of honor and principle whose pedigrees in militancy are not questionable. This is not the case with Mr. Melford Dokubo Goodhead a. k. a. Alhaji Mujaheed Asari Dokubo, whose trajectory of militancy is guided by the political compass of his stomach. The people of Kalabari ethnic nation know their true sons and daughters…

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By Lasisi Olagunju In 1948, Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, thought of the best way to protect his country’s security information from invasive media toxins. He summed his strategy up in one short sentence: “Take the thief and make him guard.” But a thief would remain a thief even if he is made the chief hunter. A maxim of the Yoruba drives this home: Twenty years after you’ve made the palm wine tapper king, he still won’t stop casting furtive glances at the neck of the palm tree (Bi…

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By Prof Nnamdi Obiaraeri Many do not believe that elections can ever be democratic in Nigeria. Nigeria does not have good democratic credentials. This has led pessimists to consistently reach the conclusion that nothing good can ever come out of Nigeria and her elections. The sceptics intone that Nigeria remains a country where the best appears impossible, but the worst will never happen. On the contrary, optimists believe that election in Nigeria is work in progress although Nigeria is making very slow progress in that regard but with the right…

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By Uche Anichukwu “Death closes all”, writes Alfred Lord Tennyson. And in that tradition of all mortals, the earthly chapter of Her Excellency, the late Lady Jane Udenwo Nnamani, came to a close on May 4, 2023, albeit unexpectedly. She was someone I was privileged to relate with very closely. Fate brought the family and I together when in January 2003 I joined the campaign team of His Excellency, Senator Ken Nnamani, ahead of that year’s general election in Enugu. Thus began a long journey that took us to Abuja…

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…Airline owes AMCON N297.3b There are indications that the battle by erstwhile owner and founder of Arik Air, Sir Arumemi Johnson-Ikhide to reclaim the airline has collapsed. This follows the inability of the ailing airline to wriggle out of a settlement condition it entered with Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) as precondition for taking back the carrier after a protracted operations that marred an impressive beginning. AMCON came into salvage Arik Air from imminent drop following a debt burden totaling about N297.3 billion and a depleting fleet that could…

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