Category: OPINION

By Ray Ekpu The crowd that is chanting Run, Jonathan, Run is a composite contingent made up of greedy and hungry fellows, rented fellows, political flunkeys of the basest type and those who think that Nigeria may be ready for any kind of political tomfoolery at this time. Ordinarily, a man who had risen from the position of a Deputy Governor, Governor, Vice President to the apex of his country’s administration, the presidency, ought to be happy that he had done, without being harmed, a marathon that most Nigerians only…

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By Chido Nwangwu Equally important to me as an African political economy and public policy specialist, are the facts that Prof. LIsa Cook has served on the Faculty of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and Deputy Director for Africa Research at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. We’ve seen the same playbook all over, again. The leadership and operatives of the current Republican Party, generally, continue to show an almost giddy inclination, a dangerous propensity to target very qualified African American ammunitions especially and clean claim without…

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By Austin Tam-George. I served as Commissioner for Information in a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) government in Rivers State a few years ago, but I was not a member of the party. In fact, I have never been a member of any political party in Nigeria. Do not blame me for this. For anyone watching from outside, politics in Nigeria may seem like a peep into a dimly lit psychiatric ward, where the inmates cannibalize one another in a deadly struggle for the Warden’s key. But in this election season…

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According to a Harvard University study, the Islamization of a country cannot be stopped once the Muslim population reaches 16 per cent of the total population. This is what Islam expert, Nikoletta Incze, said on June 22, 2019, on Hungarian public television. Incze points out that many countries that are Islamic today were originally Christian, for example, Turkey, Egypt, and Syria. In other countries as well, Islam supplanted the previous religion: Pakistan was Hindu, Afghanistan was Buddhist, and Iran was dominated by Zoroastrianism. According to her, the Islamization of a…

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Former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan who is reportedly being lobbied by the All Progressive Congress (APC) to enter into the presidential race in 2023 By John Araka For a very long time now, there have been intense speculations that ex- President Goodluck Jonathan is under immense pressure to contest the 2023 presidential election on the platform of the very party that kicked him out of office in 2015, the All Progressive Congress (APC). Most Nigerians thought that it was a huge joke. This…

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By Onyema Omenuwa Before I am accused of bias, which I am entitled to, anyway, let me immediately state that I write as a citizen of Nigeria who has seen it all, since May 29, 1999, when the present democratic dispensation was birthed. So, beyond bias, any patriotic citizen that shuns political correctness for realism, can only gravitationally consign the incumbent Administration, and indeed the All Progressives Congress (APC), which spawned it, to a dark chapter of Nigeria’s political history. Such a logical assessment can’t be objectively viewed as biased.…

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By Kunle Adepitan Professor Oluyemi Osinbajo (PYO), pastor and incumbent vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria declared his intention to run for the presidential post on Monday April 11, 2022. This declaration has put paid to wild speculations whether or not he is going to get into the fray. Even though I have not met him once, I hold it true that PYO has every right to contest for any political office he so desires. However, it is his capability to perform optimally as an executive president given…

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By Ikem Okuhu For many Nigerians that have mostly encountered the world through the mirrors of literature and the picturesque narrations of those that have trotted the globe, Dubai might as well be a country in the Middle East created by God with streets and skylines pouring forth the Biblical milk and honey. If you tell many of these people that Dubai, unarguably the most discussed city in the world today, is just one city in a country called the United Arab Emirates, a lot would doubt you until you…

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