Opinion

OPINION: A NATION TRIED BY HISTORY

Separate from recent gradual and silent encroachment on, and outright abridgements of the masses welfare by the Federal Government via increase of Value Added Tax (VAT) from 5 to 7.5 per cent, re-introduction of Stamp Duty Charge, re-introduction of...

OPINION: NIGERIA’S NEXT PRESIDENT: A RIPOSTE

Rumours about some people's presidential ambition towards 2023 have been doing the rounds. The credit should go to the hecklers who help in spreading them. They, the hecklers, have been prickling innocent Nigerians with the noise of who wears...

OPINION: COVID-19: A NIGERIAN UPDATE

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It is now more than six months since Nigeria reported its index case of Corona Virus. On March 23, the country closed its airports to all international flights and commercial operations, for a month, in the first instance, with...

OPINION: OPEN LETTER TO OBADIAH MAILAFIA

Dear sir, writing you this letter comes impromptu. Sir, this morning, I had planned to offer commentary on any topical issue of the Nigerian state just as you often do through your column and other fora. But having read...

OPINION: FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL: THE NEEDLESS FURORE

Mr President is in the eye of the storm recently for bravely realizing the inevitable expungement of the fuel subsidy in Nigeria, brave due to the extreme furore and knee jerk reaction by some gullible and credulous Nigerians, who...

OPINION: HOTEL JOS, MOTEL NIGERIA: WHERE IS HOME?

A Tarokh adage translates, a child lacks wisdom, and some say that what is important is that the child does not die; what kills more surely than lack of wisdom? (A foolish child is not much better than a...

OPINION: NORTH WEST COUNTER BANDITRY CAMPAIGN AND THE BURATAI FORMULAE

2015 was a turning point in Nigeria for several reasons. President Buhari won elections as an opposition candidate, which is a very rare occurrence in this part of the world. He thereafter made what I call one of the...

OPINION: GANA AND THE REST OF US

In the most bizarre turn of events yet, Benue State Government and leaders from Sankera axis of the state said they have accepted the killing of notorious militia leader, Terwase Akwaza, aka Gana, "as an act of God" while...

OPINION: A NOTE FOR MILLAND DIXON DIKIO, THE NEW AMNESTY BOSS

It is now pedestrian information that Professor Charles Dokubo has been disengaged as the Coordinator, Amnesty Programme with immediate effect over allegations of financial misconduct and mismanagement in the Amnesty Programme. What is however, worthy of mention is that...

OPINION: THE PLIGHT OF CHILDREN LIVING IN FRONT LINES OF CONFLICT

Fifteen year-old Sadiq from Sinjar district in northwest Iraq cannot write his own name. His education, like those of other children in the volatile North-East axis of Nigeria, has been successively destroyed by war, displacement, and now, COVID-19. According to...