Opinion

OPINION: DIRTY RELIGION AND THE DILEMMA OF MANAGEMENT OF COVID-19

Controversies surround reasons why religion thrives in Nigeria. It is said to be an opium. For some, regular religious attendance is a prerequisite for a good life in heaven after the misery here, and continued merriment for them that...

OPINION: WITH ADESINA, OKONJO-IWEALA AND OTHERS, NIGERIA ATTAINS HUMAN RESOURCE POWERHOUSE STATUA UNDER PRESIDENT BUHARI

Professor Ibrahim Gambari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, international relations guru and bureaucrat, does not think we should wait for historians to do the assessment of the Buhari administration in the international arena given limitations of the focus...

OPINION: PASTORALISTS AND FARMERS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA: TIME FOR FULANI CAPITALISM, NOT HERDSMEN TERRORISM

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Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka’s country home in the forest area of Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, has reportedly been invaded allegedly by herdsmen. Although the police have denied the invasion of Soyinka’s sanctuary, he has confirmed that the peace of...

OPINION: EX-SERVICE CHIEFS AS AMBASSADORS: CAN THE SENATE STAND UP TO BE COUNTED?

BEVERLY HILLS, February 19, (THEWILL) - General Muhammadu Buhari's recent surprise nomination of his immediate past service chiefs as non-career ambassadors has continued to generate serious reactions some of which are actually interesting while most are either naive or outrightly...

OPINION: OONI & IGBOHO DISTRACTION AS FULANI USE HAUSA IN KILLING FIELDS

BEVERLY HILLS, February 17, (THEWILL) - The issue is bigger than the Ooni and those that disagree with his approach. Ooni is respected like the Supreme Court without its own Police or Army. Whatever his age, Ooni is not infallible...

OPINION: PTF, VACCINE NATIONALISM AND NIGERIA’S QUEST FOR DOMESTIC PRODUCTION

Recently, the Federal Government through the Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 (PTF), announced that the sum of N10 billion has been released to appropriate agency to fund domestic vaccine production to tackle the scourge of Coronavirus in the country. The...

OPINION: MAKING SENSE OF EL-RUFAI’S SEEMING DISPARATE STANCE ON CITIZENS’ RIGHTS

The Kaduna State Government had in May 2020 repatriated over 30,000 Almajiri children back to their respective states of origin in the wake of the onset of the raging pandemic, as part of its efforts to check the spread...

OPINION: FRESH TROUBLE AT LEKKI TOLL GATE

The rancor that occurred, Saturday, February 6, at the sitting of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry investigating the shootings and alleged killings at the Lekki Toll gate in Lagos in October 2020, in addition to reported cases...

OPINION: THE NECESSITY OF TEACHING CRITICAL THINKING IN AFRICAN SCHOOLS

The realization of a more critical thinking African society must start in the schools and with the schools because schools are spaces where values, skills, and competencies are nurtured. Schools are places where the minds of children and youths...

OPINION: NDI – ABIA, GODS’ OWN STATE – WE WON’T ALLOW THAT WE ARE ASKED, WHERE IS THY GOD?

My Abia Progressives, we don’t have a choice but must begin to come together for one single reason, to liberate ourselves from the shackles of our enemies. Our enemies are no other than – the swindlers, profiteers, 10 per...