Opinion

“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. You build one by doing what is right at the right time.” Senator Bala Mohammed (KauranBauchi) wrote on his Facebook wall as far back as September 22,...

It is quite unsettling that the leaders of the leading opposition party, All Progressives Congress (APC), have decided to self-destruct. They are doing their best in putting the wrong foot forward in almost all their recent public outings. After...

Looking back into our national history, the last time a top government official engaged in an act of sedition and rebellion against the Nigerian State was in 1967. That was when Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, then Military Governor of...

I have often wondered whether the problem with Nigeria has always been the lack of an effective leadership or more like that of followership. Recently, the matter was once again brought to the fore by Prof. Chinua Achebe’s seminal...

Beyond the issue of direct resource control and Determination is the perspective of Stakeholdership. This view does not toe the line of merely agitating for economic freedom to explore and exploit natural resources especially oil by host communities/states in...

In Nigeria, as in virtually all parts of Africa, when elders speak, younger people are expected to listen, obey and act accordingly. For this reason, the recent “rig and roast” statement attributed to former Lagos State governor and national...

Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy is being hailed as a hero and patriot in his stand-off with the Federal Government over cattle grazing in Nevada by most white conservatives in the media and across the nation as well as by...

My piece today contains a “classified ad.” Nigerians are looking for a certain kind of person – someone to do an important job for them. Do you have the qualifications for the position? “Wanted: Someone with a heart loyal to...

I find it compelling to respond yet again to the editorial in your newspaper for Wednesday, 16th April, 2014, with the above title. My aim in this short rejoinder is to show that the conclusion the editorial draws from...

Mr. Godwin Jeddy-Agba, OFR, Group General Manager (Crude Oil Marketing Division) of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, is a frontline aspirant for the ticket of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the gubernatorial race of Cross River State in the...