Opinion

OPINION: WHEN VOTES, PERSUASION & PROTESTS FAIL THEY RESORT TO VIOLENCE

We saw the Suppression of democracy and abuse of people's free will to express themselves, not only in the so called Third World countries but inside the Congress called the Bastion of Democracy: shaken six years ago, four years...

OPINION: MUBARAK BALA AND RAGE OF INTOLERANT ISLAM IN NIGERIA

The case of Nigerian Humanist, Mubarak Bala, highlights a warped sense of justice and piety among Muslims in northern Nigeria. His continued incarceration is a lesson in islamic extremism. It reinforces the notion that Muslims are intolerant and Islam...

OPINION: A NEW YEAR, NEW MINDS?

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Thanking God for giving each of us another year of opportunities of service to him would be appropriate. As leaders in our various corners and at variegated levels, we need a pause and self-examination to ascertain if we have...

OPINION: DANGOTE’S BEHIND, FCMB MD PATERNITY SNAG AND NIGERIANS’ LUST FOR SCANDALS

We love scandals. By ''we'' I mean both the dramatis personae in a scandal and the spectators sitting in judgment. Why would a superior at a workplace get entangled in a sexual congress with a subordinate if not driven...

OPINION: POWER VS. DUTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS

To anyone paying attention the last four years, Trump’s refusal to accept that he lost the 2020 presidential election fair and square could not truly come as a surprise. That he would never concede was practically a given. What...

OPINION: PLAYING WITH COVID-19

Nigerians are playing with COVID-19, and in so doing, they are playing with fire and death. Why are we so blest and yet so suicidal? When the index case of the virus was announced on February 27, 2020, and...

OPINION: LAGOS AND THE NEED FOR ROAD SPACE RECLAMATION

The expressway from Chevron Tollgate to Novare Mall Shoprite and beyond endures chocking vehicular traffic, high carbon emission, and heavy pedestrian movement. Sangotedo, particularly, suffers from cramped road space occasioned by seasonal sand deposits and unauthorized trading along pedestrian...

OPINION: THE CHURCH IN NIGERIA: SILENT NO MORE

The nominal Christian population in Nigeria is approximately 80 million people, traversing virtually all parts of our great country. It is widely suggested that Nigeria is home to the largest collection of black Christians in the world. When one...

OPINION: MINORITY REPORT; THE NIGERIAN EXPERIMENT

The future will only contain what we put into it now. Truth is that the little talked about New Year speech by the Nigerian President has come and gone, at the heart of it was sour hope, no charter, the...

OPINION: WITH CORONAVIRUS ON MY MIND, I BID BYE BYE TO 2020

l exhale and remain thankful to God for the escape of my family and l from the tumultuous year 2020 that tormented mankind with coronavirus. And as l and other survivors of the horrific 2020, bid the year with the...