Category: OPINION

By Charles Ogbu Every country, state, organisation or group rises and falls on leadership; and Leadership is about Influence; Influence is about relationship. If you don’t have a relationship with a people, you can’t influence them to do or not to do anything and once you can’t influence them, you certainly can’t lead them. The best way to cultivate a relationship with a people which will give you the needed influence to lead them is by demonstrating that you feel what they feel and share in their wars and woes,…

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By Collins Opurozor Today, media reports quoted Chief Hope Uzodinma as saying that the insecurity in Imo could be traced to the activities of convicted criminals who got state pardon in the past. Speaking through his commissioner for information and reported by Vanguard Newspaper, Uzodinma has now elected to sing a new song over a social malady which his mental capacity has proven inadequate to address. Less than three weeks ago, this same Uzodinma fouled up the media spaces with unfounded tales of how his perceived political foes have been…

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By Lasisi Olagunju The way we mourn tells something about our humanity. I read the Nigerian Army’s three-paragraph, late-night statement announcing the crash of an air force plane on Friday. It said the Chief of Army staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru “and ten other officers” died in the crash. There was another follow-up three-paragraph statement from the Defence Headquarters. It also said the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Ibrahim Attahiru and “his entourage” who were on an official trip, “were involved in an air mishap.” The statement prayed for…

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By Basil Okoh –The interest of the North is to impose its backwardness on the rest of Nigeria. Anybody who watched that speech by the Defence Minister Bashir Magashi at the graveside of the deceased Chief of Army Staff Ibrahim Attahiru and the other officers that died in the Beechcraft plane crash will understand why Southern youth say Nigeria is the joke of a country. His public delivery summarizes the shameful quality of Muhammadu Buhari’s government and the quality of personnel presently running the affairs of Nigeria. Bashir Magashi, the…

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By Remi Oyeyemi “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common with unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” – Calvin Coolidge “To choose the right moment in which to act is the great art of men…” Napolean Bonaparte. I have been watching the fast pace with which the so-called country of Nigeria has been tumbling towards tragedy. I…

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Governor of Cross River State Ben Ayade left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) to the shock of citizens of the state that has been deeply rooted in PDP since 1999 By Agba Jalingo 1. I saw first, Senator Florence Ita Giwa there. Remember she decamped from PDP to APC three years ago. Spent a few months in APC, fought with Ayade bitterly and even accused Ayade of hatching plans to assassinate her but later decamped back to PDP. Is she returning to APC…

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By Tony Nnadi “We Either Dismantle Unitary Nigeria Immediately To Save Our Lives Or We Preserve It For Fulani Conquest And Our Extermination: A Note Of Caution To The British High Commissioner To Nigeria – NINAS Secretariat, May 20, 2021.” It is no longer a matter for debate that the Fulani Caliphate, currently masquerading as “the Federal Government of Nigeria” is on a ferocious Conquest Mission against the Indigenous Nationalities of Nigeria in the desperate bid to create a homeland for all the Fulani of Africa. It is no longer…

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By Bayo Oluwasanmi “Fulani terrorists and kidnappers abduct our children from schools, colleges, and universities on daily basis, and when we complain, condemn or protest such barbaric acts, they say we want to destabilize Nigeria.” General Muhammadu Buhari as agent provocateur uses government power and machinery – armed forces, police, security agencies, judiciary, etc., to undermine, subjugate, oppress, and terrorise non-Fulani critics, activists, dissidents, who speak truth to power. Buhari as president, plays a significant role in the present turbulence in Nigeria. Since Buhari came to power six years ago,…

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By Mike Ozekhome The sudden unexpected kick by some Northern elites against the patriotic resolutions passed last week at a meeting held in Asaba, by the 17 Southern Governors of Nigeria is quite worrisome, but definitely uncalled for. The kick is illegal, unconstitutional, and even immoral. I have since termed the Asaba resolutions the “ACCORD CONCORDIALE”. The sudden hoopla and ruckus seem to suggest that these few vocal elements are suddenly scared of certain manifold effects that the unanimous resolutions by the APC, PDP, Benin, Anioma, Yoruba, Igbo, Ijaw, Ikwerre,…

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