Opinion

OPINION: DON’T FRET – MIYETTI ALLAH, OHANAEZE AND AFENIFERE CAN HELP TACKLE INSECURITY

Security is everybody's business. It is a flawed assumption that issues of security must remain strictly within the orbit of agencies with the lawed responsibility. Even security agencies cannot function without citizens' alliance and community help. Simply, they cannot...

OPINION: WHERE IS LEAH SHARIBU? DOES SHE KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS?

In the evening of February 19, 2018, 110 schoolgirls of Government Girls' Science Secondary School, Dapchi in Yunusari local government of area of Yobe state were abducted by Boko Haram and taken into grisly captivity. Five of the girls...

OPINION: SAM NDA-ISAIAH (1962-2020)

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Sam Nda-Isaiah, our friend and colleague who died the other day, aged 58, will certainly be remembered as one of the major contributors to the practice and promotion of the journalism profession in Nigeria, in the last moments of...

OPINION: ANGELS ARE IN HEAVEN: TRIBUTE TO AMAKA LAURETTA NDOMA-EGBA

Where do I start this tribute? Certainly I cannot talk about you in the past for you live. When you live in the hearts and minds of the so many you have touched you cannot die. When is the...

OPINION: PMB’s AGGRESSIVE ASSAULT ON POVERTY UNCEASING

It is imperative that I begin this discussion with laying a basic foundation of what Nigeria Economic Sustainability Plan, NESP is all about, what informed its setting up by the government and its main focus areas. The Nigeria Economic Sustainability...

OPINION: NIGERIA: FROM PETROL TO AUTO-GAS

The Nigerian government deregulated the downstream petroleum sector with effect from March 19, 2020. The key argument was that the fuel subsidy regime which gulps billions of Naira annually, had become unrealistic and unsustainable. One or two months later,...

OPINION: BLOWING THE WHISTLE IN THE 2020 US ELECTION

"I drove thousands of ballots from New York to Pennsylvania." When I heard the above statement this week from Jesse Morgan as he testified before President Trump's legal team investigating the alleged widespread frauds in the 2020 general elections it...

OPINION: MESSING WITH MERCENARIES ON BOKO HARAM AGAIN

On January 22, 2015 at Chatham House, London, Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), baited the whirlwind. He said he had suggested to Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to postpone the general election...

OPINION: RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES: COMBATING ISLAMIC EXTREMISM, WITCH PERSECUTION IN AFRICA

Events in the past few months have compelled a rethink of the link between religion and human rights. Protests across the Muslim world over the republication of the cartoons of Prophet, Muhammad and the attendant bloodletting in France have...

OPINION: BUHARI/NNPC: WHAT IS IT WITH NIGER REPUBLIC?

BEVERLY HILLS, December 03, (THEWILL) - Is there anything wrong with the brains of our people in government as manifested in the way they reason and the decisions they make? How can our leaders be making pronouncements and taking decisions...