Category: OPINION

By Emmanuel Mgbeahurike President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to Imo State last week was significant for the state and the region as it attracted dignitaries across the South-East zone to interface with the president. However, signs that a major event was in the offing in the state, often regarded as the Eastern Heartland, became manifest when Governor Hope Uzodimma started to give the state a new look through construction of new roads, reconstruction, painting the pavements and planting of flowers. As Imo people wondered what was happening, the governor, on his…

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President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria (left) and Imo State Governor, Mr Hope Uzodimma By Okafor Elekwachi By this time, Governor Hope Uzodimma’s political hallelujah boys are busy thinking of how to explain Mr. President’s carefully selected last words in Imo after the show of shame tagged project commissioning. In closing his empty few minutes remark, Buhari said, and I quote; “The Governor of Imo State I cannot thank you enough, however I will be careful with your future invitations.” The above clearly is a statement of dissatisfaction and disappointment, from…

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GoldenNewsNg gathered that respected newspaper columnist and public affairs commentator, Alhaji Majeed Dahiru, on Tuesday identified popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, as the most dangerous individual in Nigeria, describing him as an unabashed terrorism sympathizer. According to report, Gumi had taken to his Facebook page to declare yesterday that bandits who are terrorizing states in the northern region of the country are going nowhere. The pundit, who said he had taken time to read Gumi’s write up, summarised some of the arguments contained therein as follows: “Gumi was trying…

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By Ikechukwu Amaechi President Muhammadu Buhari never ceases to confound. Even his most strident supporters, who are ever willing to cut him some slack, are gradually but inexorably coming to the inevitable reality: he is a study in hypocrisy. His claim to higher standards is a ruse. Too often, he fails to follow his own expressed moral rules and principles. I will come back to this shortly. On August 19, the National Security Adviser (NSA), Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno (rtd.), reported Buhari as telling his Service Chiefs that he was not…

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By Solomon Ifeanacho Any politician in Anambra State seeking public office who furtively goes all the way from Awka to Birnin Kudu, Jigawa State, a distance of 901.8 kilometres, to engage in what lawyers call forum shopping cannot be bestowed with an integrity award. Any politician from Anambra State who sues the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) at the Jigawa State High Court sitting at Birnin Kudu, without the party being aware of the action or the proceedings, cannot by any stretch of the imagination, be considered honest. Any public…

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By Okey Ikechukwu The sixth season of the Big Brother show started last month. The winner of this ‘Shine Ya Eye’ edition is expected to go home with a grand prize of N90 million. A handsome fee for doing nothing meaningful, alongside others of no particular definition, while the rest of the world stares at you; isn’t it? Many are glued to their television sets as I write. They want to know the latest antics of specific Housemates, or all of them together. BBNaija is the discussion among substantial populations…

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By Martins Oloja This is not a lamentation on Abba Kyari and what the nation and FBI would like to do with him. Nor is it another opportunity to ask the governing party and indeed our current leaders the kind of police force they want to secure us internally. After all, we may have lost consciousness of the fact that our internal security responsibility lies with the Nigerian Police Force as it is in most parts of the world. Rather, it is a time we should begin to advise people…

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By Ikechukwu Amaechi Once again, President Muhammadu Buhari is in London, primarily on medical tourism, but also to attend a Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. Aso Rock says the summit will bring together Heads of State and Government, as well as stakeholders and youth leaders, and provide a platform to chart a course for transforming education systems in partner countries through exchange of best practices. Deliberations will focus on issues such as the power of education, transforming education for girls, priorities for transforming education in the…

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By Frank Aigbogun That day in 1984 when Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor were both driven from a Lagos courthouse in a Black Maria to begin their jail term, I had just started my career as a young reporter at The Guardian. It was a fearful start to what I considered a life-long calling as a journalist. As I went back home that evening, however, I was stoic in my desire to continue my life as a reporter yet worried for my country and for the profession I had chosen…

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By Femi Fani Kayode When the Crusaders, led by Godfrey of Bouillon, took Jerusalem from the Muslims in 1099, they butchered every single Muslim and Jewish man, woman and child that they found in the city, and they pulled down all their places of worship. 100 years later, in 1187, when the Muslims, led by Salahudeen Al Ayyubi, took the city of Jerusalem back from the Crusaders, every single Christian man, woman and child that they found in the City was given safe passage to leave, not one of them…

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