Opinion

First I must say this, I am a Nigerlite, I am a keen observer of political happenings in the state, in fact an active participant. So I speak with the tune of an authority on happenings in the state. Some persons...

Nigeria's blasphemy laws have been of focus locally, nationally and internationally following the arrest and detention of Nigerian Humanist, Mubarak Bala, the sentencing to death of a Muslim singer, and the imprisonment of a 13-year-old boy for blasphemy in...

I admire Nasir el-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State for his intellectual abilities and what he has been able to achieve within the public space, but I am not his fan. I have had two rather disturbing encounters with...

Maybe the reason anyone does most things in this life is power. Power, or the position of power, is more likely the pull for everyone, on most things. Power directly or parallel can be found in purposes and objectives. To hold power...

The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe because its handle was made of wood, and they thought it was one of them! As a young child I marveled at an obvious contradiction in life: why...

I am writing to urge the Kano state government to release Mubarak Bala, president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria. Bala has been held incommunicado in Kano since April 29. Kano state officials continue to misinform the world about...

As a globally recognized event, the world on Wednesday, 12th August, 2020, celebrated the International Youth Day (IYD), a programme that gives youths the voice and opportunity to celebrate actions and initiatives, as well as their meaningful universal and...

If Africans cannot help one another as their brothers' keepers, who is going to help them for free? Heaven only helps those that help themselves. Prayers, incarnations and belief empower and strengthen your nerves to be strong and durable...

If there are two events in recent times that reinforce King Solomon’s warnings thousands of years ago that when there is no vision, people perish. It is President Muhammadu Buhari’s led administration’s reintroduction of a bill which was rejected...

The Muhammadu Buhari's administration has made unusually heavy weather of fighting the social monster of corruption. But as we have now seen, all these noises are on paper only because appearance is different from reality. In reality, it is more...