Opinion

OPINION: ABUJA UNDER SIEGE BY BANDITS, BUT DSS, ARMY AFTER AGITATORS IN SOUTH-EAST

Abuja is under siege. Terror lives and breathes here. Citizens are kidnapped every day from their homes but sadly, some of these tragedies escape outrage and alarm. There is a false sense of security in the federal capital territory...

OPINION: AS KIDNAPPERS DISVIRGIN ABUJA

Two DISTINGUISHED professors of Politics in what is considered the best University in the World- Harvard University wrote in their new book as follows: "Although some elected demagogues take office with a blueprint for autocracy, many, such as Fujimori,...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS

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I start my admonition with a story of a certain legislator, representing one constituency like that in a place like that, on getting to the assembly he was made opposition leader. He was so good at his task that...

OPINION: STATE OF THE NATION: RODENTS IN THE VAULTS!

BEVERLY HILLS, January 27, (THEWILL) - I stumbled on a few words of E.B White of "The rat has no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctious, no higher feeling,...

OPINION: ARE BRIGHT SIDES TO CORONAVIRUS SIGNALING IMPENDING DEATH OF DEMOCRACY?

The bright side that one has in mind is not really the fact that vaccines to protect mankind from being further decimated by coronavirus have been produced, which is  good, anyway. Neither is it the number of those struck...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S ONE BO… AND A PLATE OF PEPPERSOUP

Fowl and dog chop sh*t but na goat teeth dey rotten On 6 January, the world witnessed an interesting spectacle, an assortment of what appeared to be characters from fantasy television shows taking possession of the US Capitol, where the...

OPINION: INSURRECTIONISTS & BOKO HARAM HALLUCINATE THE SAME IDEOLOGY

Hallucination is now a just cause for real violence? Stop the hypocrisy and call a spade a spade, all right wing terrorists are the same locally or internationally, based on supremacist ideologies that are repulsive to the sick and...

Reasons Coronavirus Crossed Over With Us Into 2021 And The Looming Catastrophe

Barely a few days into the new year, the Nigerian Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported that on Thursday, 7th day of January , 2021, a whooping 1,664 people tested positive to Covid-19. The spike in the number of...

OPINION: COUP IN THE CAPITOL HILL AND THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA

BEVERLY HILLS, January 13, (THEWILL) - The strange events that reached the crescendo on 6 January in the country formerly known as the United States of America, USA, which with heavy heart l’m reluctantly rechristening, the Divided States of...

OPINION: ARE THERE NO ELDERS IN ABIA?

I am inclined to ask this question; Are There No Elders In Abia, that can talk sense into the present political leadership in the state? Why are our elders mum over the poor state of development in the state...