Category: OPINION

By Collins Opurozor Yesterday, a local tabloid in Owerri went to town with a screaming headline, saying that implosion was looming in Imo PDP. The headline was sponsored by agents of the outgoing governor, Chief Hope Uzodinma, which was their own contribution to finding succour and relief to Uzodinma’s misery over his looming political doomsday. Ahiazuwa! That the opposition party in Imo grows by leaps and bounds day after day is enough nightmare to the man whose unearned mandate remains generally disputed till date. For such a man to find…

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By Oghenekaro Samuel Johnson “I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets” -Eugene V. Debs On Saturday February 5, 2022, barring last minute changes, the drums will be rolled out amidst ostentatious political fanfare as Rt. Hon Chibuike Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, Catholic Knight of St. John, will be turbaned by the Emir of Daura as the “Dan Amanar Daura”, meaning the “trusted son of Daura”. While Daura will regale in the pomp and pageantry concomitant…

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“He Is Not At Peace With Imo People And Does Not Feel Safe In A State He Is The Chief Security Officer” By Michael Anyanwu By its very nature, democratic process stimulates the citizenry to form collective opinion on specific issues of serious concern including the performance of the government of the day. Sampling public opinion in Imo and judging from an aggregate of their individual views, attitudes, and convictions, one would realise that since its creation in 1976 and its first democratic experience in 1979, the state is currently…

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By Oluwaseyi Egbewande The first “World Summit Against Cancer” which was convened in Paris in 2000 established the World Cancer Day. It is an international day commemorated annually on February 4 to promote awareness of cancer and to support its prevention, detection, and treatment. The theme for the World Cancer Day 2022 is “closing the care gap” and it aims to address inequities throughout the length and breadth on which cancer thrives. Money, education, race, ethnicity, gender, age, disability, and lifestyle are all elements that contribute to inequity. While it…

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By David Pilling “Muhammadu Buhari may go but it’s not the leader who matters, the system itself must change.” On the British Airways flight between London and Nigeria’s administrative capital of Abuja, one of the airline’s most profitable routes, nearly all the space is taken up with flatbeds. The unfortunate few making their way to a crunched economy section at the back must trudge through row after row of business class. Evidently, there is plenty of money to be made in Abuja’s corridors of power. Nigeria’s economy may be flat…

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By Tunde Olusunle If you are very familiar with the person of Onyema Ugochukwu, one of Nigeria’s most respected journalists who also served as pioneer Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), you will know he is a gentleman to the core. For the littlest thing you do for him, Ugochukwu tells you “Thank you.” It could also be “I appreciate.” You’ll think he’s an oyinbo man. And this is not minding the fact that he’s striding steadily to the ranks of Nigeria’s octogenarians. Indeed, this unassuming, urbane, cerebral,…

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By Martins Oloja In Chukwu, et al’s Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe @ 60: Audacity of Resilience, a young man embarks on a journey of self-discovery with surprising results. In the compendium of 340 pages, edited by some scholars ably lead by the University of Lagos Deputy Vice Chancellor (Management Services), Professor L.O. Chukwu, there is a story. In the anthology to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Professor Oluwatoyin Temitayo Ogundipe, ‘OTO’ as he is fondly called, you will read a lot of remarkable things about the 12th Vice Chancellor of the…

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By Gbenga Adefulu Without any iota of doubt, Bola Ahmed Tinubu is Vice President Yomi Osinbajo’s benefactor. In fact, everything Osinbajo has achieved politically has had the imprimatur of Tinubu. From his first political job as Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos (1999 – 2007) and taking Tinubu’s VP slot on the APC presidential ticket in 2015 on a platter of gold, Osinbajo has ridden on the back of Tinubu. Where was Osinbajo when Tinubu bankrolled the party and sustained it through its metamorphosis from AD to AC,…

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Prince Dapo Abiodun, Ogun State Governor By Funmi Branco Whichever way one looks at it, the security situation in the country is at a critical stage. It is ominous. In the last few weeks, in particular, terrorists masquerading as herders have unleashed mayhem on Nigerians, killing and maiming people at will. In part emboldened by the feeble response of the security apparatus of the state to their nefarious activities, the herders have made the states of the North virtually ungovernable. They have also pushed further down South, particularly the South-West…

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