Opinion

OPINION: OYEDEPO’S UNHOLY ANGER OVER CAMA AND NIGERIA’S KARMA

Is the church an enterprise? Yes. Is the church a place of spiritual alliance with the creator? Yes. Naturally, the church as an industry should be detached from incorporeal control. Both must not be conflated. There is the tabernacle...

OPINION: YAHAYA SHARIF-AMINU: BLASPHEMY AND DEATH SENTENCE REVISITED

While the Muslim Lawyers Association, the Council of Imams, and the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria have called for the execution of the Muslim singer, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, I urge a stay of action and ask that the death...

OPINION: BAYELSA AND OTHER STORIES

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OPINION: WHEN SILENCE IS GOLDEN

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -Unknown. I am a practising Muslim, but I have adequate understanding of the Bible and I am aware of the verse that says:...

OPINION: IHEDIOHA, IMO PDP AND YANYANPU

The Yorubas have the habit of greeting. Yoruba people are very good when it comes to greetings. It is a very significant part of their culture. The women sometimes kneel down to greet. You will hear them say,"E pele...

OPINION: THE TRAGEDY OF BAYELSA STATE’S UNENDING ELECTORAL CYCLE

Rumbles, side-talks, murmuring, sighs and more. I was suddenly losing the attention of the civil society stakeholders I was making a presentation to on freedom of information in Edo State. In the midst of all the madness taking place...

OPINION: THOUGHT PROJECT: DARE TO QUESTION

Today I announce an exciting program for schools in Nigeria, the Thought Project. The objective of this project is to foster critical and creative thinking skills in pupils and students and to introduce critical thinking and creative reasoning as...

OPINION: THE STRUGGLE IS MY LIFE

It's not a period to roll out the drums because the bell has tolled for one of us, Elder Sunday Ukaegbu, and, according to John Donne, has tolled for us- his surviving siblings. All the same, I return all glory...

OPINION: BULLION VAN: WHY TINUBU MUST NOT BE INVESTIGATED IN ISOLATION

Bola Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu Emirate, must not be investigated in isolation for the bullion van he kept in his residence in Lagos, to induce his foot soldiers to work hard for the re-election of incumbent President Buhari,...

OPINION: AT 71, ARTHUR EZE HAS LOST IT

Controversial as Prince Arthur Eze has become in his desperate bid to become the godfather of Anambra State which has earned him the moniker of "Money Miss Road", he may not be a fool, after all. Aware that his...