Opinion

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI AND ASIWAJU TINUBU MEDICAL TOURISM – DISAPPOINTING!

Nigeria’s President and Commander-in-Chief, Muhammadu Buhari, was in London for medical check-up and treatment. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu is also in London for medical reasons. We learnt from reports that Asiwaju Tinubu went through knee surgery in a London...

OPINION: ENDING THE 1-0-1 FEEDING CONUNDRUM IN NIGERIA

The contemporary economy of Nigeria, when juxtaposed with the pocket economy of her citizens, is too appalling. An average stakeholder skips lunch on a daily basis while some, observably, eat once a day for sustenance till the next day. ...

OPINION: THAT NIGERIAN YOUTH IN THE ANGWA

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Have you lived in the Northern part of Nigeria, if yes, and you understand Hausa you would be familiar with the word "angwa or anguwa".  Angwa is not an ordinary word that translates to neighbourhood but literally means 'slum', a...

OPINION: 2023: TINUBU VS BELLO AND OTHERS

From what we have seen and heard so far, it seems most likely that the race for the 2023 Presidential position would end up as the fiercest, most contested, and perhaps the most controversial since Nigeria's return to civilian...

OPINION: SERENADING THE MUSIC AND EVENTS OF TOKYO OLYMPICS

At last, the games of the XXXII Olympiad (Tokyo 2020) have come and gone. After all the COVID-19 induced delays that saw it held a year later, there is no gainsaying that it still met the razzmatazz associated with...

OPINION: DISSECTING PRESIDENT BUHARI’S LEADERSHIP ROLE IN AFRICA

Once again President Muhammadu Buhari had, in anticipation of the imminent fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban after the United States’ withdrawal after a 20-year sojourn, used his article published in the Financial Times of London on August 16th...

OPINION: ANAMBRA: TIME FOR JUDICIARY TO REDEEM ITSELF

Even non-legal practitioners know that a State High Court cannot give a consequential order to a federal agency like the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Any serious action which involves a federal agency must go to the Federal High...

OPINION: MAKING THE MOST OF OUR NATIONAL INDEBTEDNESS

Debt is one of the few English words that can be translated to any language in the world without a shed of sweat. It’s that universal. No doubt, it ranks as one of the foremost liabilities hugging man- and...

OPINION: PRINCE MUIS SHODIPE-DOSUNMU: AN AVOIDABLE DEATH.

I was a victim of COVID 19, a survivor through the grace of Allah. I know the tremendous pains, the excruciating vice grip on the lungs, the racking throttling of the throat, the persistent, savage coughing, the gasping heavy...

OPINION: NIGERIAN ELECTIONS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD LIKE SUYA

There’s this book by Peter Enahoro entitled You Gotta Laugh to Cry. The so-called democratic elections in Nigeria almost always end up making all Nigerians laugh to cry. Let’s start from Nigeria’s much-ballyhooed return to democracy in 1999 during which an...