Opinion

OPINION: “ IF YOU PAY A KIDNAPPERS RANSOM YOU’LL GO TO JAIL!”

NIgeria is a funny and strange country to live in and the lawmakers are even stranger making you think whether they’ve lost touch with reality all together: recently the Senate is trying to push a Bill, the Terrorism Prevention(Amendment)...

OPINION: RIGHT OF REPLY RE: YAHAYA BELLO: PROTOTYPE OF VISIONLESS EXUBERANCE

A so-called special report written by one Sam Diala, which filled with fiction and orchestrated misinformation, with the intent to malign, has come to our attention. The report exposes the writer as someone who has a preconceived animosity towards the...

OPINION: MALAMI’S NONSENSICAL COMPARISON

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During an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, Minister for Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, left me bewildered and wondering if he still has his thinking faculty intact. Malami, while speaking against the ban on open grazing...

OPINION: MINORITY TRIBES IN MIDDLE-BELT FIND NEW VOICE IN ORTOM

Nigeria is arguably regarded as a federating state with 36 states and six geopolitical zones of North-Central, North-East, North-West, South-East, South- South and South-West. It is also made of more than 250 ethnic groups. However, three of them are...

OPINION: GANDUJE IN THE EYES OF SOCIAL MEDIA

Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has been identified by social media activists as an indispensable fan since the inception of his regime. This is supported with pictures of the various structures put in place by his government. The...

OPINION: FULANI HERDERS HAVE RIGHT TO DO BUSINESS ANYWHERE IN NIGERIA

BEVERLY HILLS, May 19, (THEWILL) - Matters of volatile quality require statecraft. That which is necessary may not be expedient or practicable under certain circumstances. And it takes statesmanship to discern the feasible moment for applying needed policy prescriptions....

OPINION: POST-COVID-19 PANDEMIC, NIGERIA AND FRANCE MUST SEIZE THE CHANCE TO STRENGTHEN MILITARY AND ECONOMIC TIES

Today, leaders from across Africa meet in Paris to discuss plans to recover from the impact of a common enemy – COVID-19. But for African nations from across the Sahel region and beyond, the issues are inseparable from the...

OPINION: THE SIGNIFICANCE AND LESSONS FROM RAMADAN

There is a need to pay more attention to the plight of the poor. The Muslims' holy month of self- purification and self- denial otherwise known as Ramadan has just ended. While it lasted, the season of fasting and...

OPINION: VILLAGE PEOPLE AND THEIR POWERS OVER NIGERIA

Until the philosophy which hold one race superior And another inferior Is finally and permanently Discredited and abandoned Everywhere is war Me say warThat until there no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation Until the colour of a man's skin is...

OPINION: GRIEVING WITHOUT ILLUSIONS

How does one grieve if the person does not subscribe to any religion or a belief in a God? How does one make meaningful sense of the tragic loss of a relative without pandering to ancient myths and misconceptions?...