Opinion

OPINION: IF NIGERIA WILL HAPPEN, THEN…

In November of this year of COVID19 2020, days after a starving lion and a number of other severely underfed animals were discovered by a shocked visitor to Gamji Gate Zoo in Kaduna State, a wildlife charity, Wild@Life e.V,...

OPINION: SOCIAL MEDIA COULD END MARRIAGE AS WE KNOW IT

Chioma is having troubles with her mother-in-law. I know because she made it headline news on her social media page. She does not share her concerns with the other party in the nuptial contract or with a trained counsellor,...

OPINION: BOOK REVIEW: AN OPEN LETTER TO GOODLUCK JONATHAN

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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)

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...