Opinion

OPINION: PRISONERS’ TRANSFER AGREEMENT AND OUR ECONOMY

The recent report of impending implementation of repatriation of prisoners’ agreement between Nigeria and Britain will definitely not come without controversy and clash of cultures and morality. Nigeria is the biggest country in a continent the so called developed...

OPINION: THE HIGHLY BENEFICIALLY NUTRITIOUS BUT OVERLOOKED WATERMELON SEEDS

Watermelon is a fruit in the melon family that can be eaten or made into drinks. There are more than 1,200 varieties of watermelon with variation in their size, shape, and colour of the flesh. Watermelon was originated from...

OPINION: LAWS MIRROR MORAL VALUES OF ‘COLONIAL ERA’, NOT SRHR REALITY!

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OPINION: NIGERIA’S WHO CERTIFICATION ON GUINEA WORM

After defaulting several times to meet targets for the eradication of two major epidemics, polio and guinea worm, Nigeria has finally broken the myth.  The report that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has finally declared Nigeria free from guinea-worm...

OPINION: WHY GUSAU SHOULD BE IN JAIL AND NEVER NOMINATED FOR DEFENSE MINISTER

Coup plotter Aliyu Mohammed Gusau staged the Babangida military coup that ousted one of our better regimes, the Buhari-Idiagbon government in 1985. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau was a pivotal part of the Babangida dictatorial regime that embezzled billions of dollars and...

OPINION: JONATHAN BASHING: RESCUING FANI-KAYODE FROM HIMSELF

Chief David Oluwafemi Adewunmi Abdulateef Fani-Kayode (Femi Fani-Kayode, for short), former Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to former President Olusegun Obasanjo; former Minister of Culture and Tourism, and former Minister of Aviation, is truly a remarkable fellow.  Whenever he talks...

OPINION: ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW: WHERE IS APC?

In the past few days, the federal government, and its head, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, have been receiving encomiums from all shades of groups in the country for signing the same sex prohibition bill into law.  Amongst these have...

OPINION: CHANGES IN THE MILITARY: IS JONATHAN NOW A GENERAL?

Sometime ago, President Goodluck Jonathan, while attending a military ceremonial function, had remarked that he was not a military general.  Many analysts wondered if the president really understood the enormity of the power of the office he occupies. How...

OPINION: WHITHER PDP NOW THAT TUKUR IS GONE?

Prior to his predicted ouster last Thursday, erstwhile national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, was seen–rightly or wrongly - as the clog in the wheel of the party’s progress. The all-powerful governors within the party...

OPINION: THAT JONATHAN’S HOUSING INITIATIVE

One of the challenges facing an average citizen of this country is shelter.  Previous administrations, since independence, have attempted, to no avail, tackling the matter. The establishment of Mortgage Banks to deal with the challenges of providing shelter to...