PERSPECTIVE – Emefiele and the logs in his eyes
By Felix Oboagwina What an irony! The operational network of Zenith Bank has collapsed for over a week now. No customer can transfer a farthing of their own savings out to other banks. Neither can…
Category: Opinion
PERSPECTIVE – 2023 countdown (6): How Tinubu, Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso stand
By Ehichioya Ezomon It's 19 days to the February 25 presidential poll, and there's anxiety that a winner might not emerge among the 18 candidates on Election Day, resulting in a run-off for the two…
PERSPECTIVE – How to win elections in Nigeria!
By Abiodun Komolafe To start with, election candidacy ought not to be an impromptu decision. For inspiration, we may have to turn to the Western civilization for succour. After all, our social structures and…
PERSPECTIVE – When government prompts the citizenry to violence
By Owei Lakemfa A Lebanese man on September 16, 2022, wielding a gun, held up the Byblos Bank in Ghazieh, Southern Lebanon. No, not to rob the bank or its customers. Just to retrieve part…
PERSPECTIVE – Bola Tinubu, Udom Emmanuel and the limits of political innuendoes
By Etim Etim APC presidential candidate Bola Tinubu came to Uyo last Monday to address his supporters in a large football stadium, made a few denigrating remarks against the State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, and…
PERSPECTIVE – Recreating the Holocaust in their own image
By Owei Lakemfa The month of January 2023 has been one of the bloodiest in the Palestine with at least 35 killed in various Israeli raids. Uncharacteristically, some Israelis were also killed. This happened when a…
PERSPECTIVE – E.K. Clark: How not to be an elder statesman
By Fred Edoreh As a matter of culture we respect elders, but when they sometimes misapply the honour to manipulate society to achieve self interest it becomes somewhat unbecoming. I have read the open…
PERSPECTIVE – E.K. Clark’s Open Letter to Okowa (Full text)
AN OPEN LETTER TO GOVERNOR IFEANYI OKOWA ON THE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN DELTA STATE BY CHIEF (DR.) E.K. CLARK OFR, CON ON THURSDAY 2ND JANUARY, 2023 His Excellency, Senator (Dr.) Ifeanyi Okowa, Governor of…
PERSPECTIVE – Buhari’s legacy of morally decadent politics in Nigeria
By Olu Fasan No politician ever became Nigeria’s president on pure deception except Muhammadu Buhari. Everything Buhari claimed to represent—and was perceived to represent—before 2015 has turned out to be a sham. “Sai Baba”,…
How I’ll change the economic direction of Nigeria for the better
By Atiku Abubakar. Late last week, Moody’s Investors Service (The Moody’s) sadly, but not unexpectedly, downgraded the Nigerian Government’s Credit Rating from B3 to Caa1. This is a very significant downgrade. Moody’s notes the FGN’s…