Opinion

OPINION: NO AMOUNT OF FOREIGN JOBS, MONEY, AID CAN LIFT AFRICA

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...

OPINION: BUHARI, NASS AND THE RE-INTRODUCED NATIONAL WATER RESOURCES BILL

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...

OPINION: DO WE FIGHT OR ‘ENGAGE’ CORRUPTION

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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...

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

"Sorry about your man" "Thank you" "You know I used to think that this COVID-19 thing is a kind of scientific joke, but now I am beginning to take it seriously." "How can you say that? It is people like you who...

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...