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OPINION: KUKAH AND THE DEBATE ON AFRICAN DEMOCRACY

Depending on where you stand on the active controversies of the day, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, 65, is either a passionate public intellectual animated and driven by his love for his fatherland and how to make her take her...

OPINION: YOBE SCHOOLGIRLS’ ABDUCTION: HAS KARMA COME FOR THE APC GOVERNMENT?

Karma is "a spiritual principle of cause and effect where the intent and actions of an individual influence the future of that individual". In Buddhism, it refers to "actions driven by intention, a deed done deliberately through body, speech or...

THEWILL Editorial: Aviation Security And What Government Must Do

BEVERLY HILLS, February 22, (THEWILL) - The report that a man identified as Kunle Oni was caught stealing aboard a taxiing Air Peace flight at the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos has come to many with shock and amazement. The report, which...

OPINION: TINUBU AND THE HOBSON’S CHOICE

President Muhammadu Buhari was demonstrably unfair to have saddled Asiwaju Bola Tinubu with the responsibility of reconciling aggrieved members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2019 general elections. Buhari’s order to him to undertake the exertion...

OPINION: POLICING THE POOR AND THE SECURITIZED ELITE

The attitude of the leadership of Nigeria and its security institutions to the safety of the poor and vulnerable is condemnable. In the same system, the social structure ensures the securitisation of the rich. While the tenets of the...

OPINION: KPEROGI: TOO FAR AWAY FROM TRUTH

The author of "Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English," Farouk Kperogi apparently overrates himself. He can lecture us on how not to abuse the English language with interference from our mother tongues. It is however...

OPINION: MANHOOD THIEVES AND TERROR OF MAGICAL THINKING IN NIGERIA

Superstition rages in Nigeria. Magical beliefs are ubiquitous and continue to terrorize the population. Irrational beliefs manifest in different forms amongst the country's educated as well as the non-educated, sometimes with violent repercussions mainly on the vulnerable members of...

OPINION: ROLE OF ADVOCACY IN BUDGET TRACKING

Presentation At The Launch Of Dubawa And Udeme By Premium Times Centre For Investigative Journalism (Ptcij) At Yar’adua Centre On 20th February 2018 BACKGROUND The budget is perhaps the most important instrument in any modern state apart from the constitution. The...

OPINION: AFRICAN UNION, PRESIDENT BUHARI AND APPEASEMENT OF CORRUPT MONSTERS

The damning verdict that Africa Continent has regressed terribly in the 21st century in every respect in modern memory has come to stay. African Union ( ) leadership in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is making more worsening mistakes which further...

OPINION: JUDGES, THE LAW AND OUR DEMOCRACY

To expand the democratic space in Nigeria and to ensure the legitimacy and stability of our democratic process, the rule of law, perhaps the supremacy of the law, anchored on constitutionalism and a progressive, liberal and developmental construction of...

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