Opinion

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY, COVID-19, ATHEISM – IS INTEGRITY IMPOSSIBLE?

Sometimes, when people say that’s how the world works, in some contexts it is like saying integrity is not the way the world works. There are lots of good and advantageous economics without integrity. There are some great psychologies without integrity. There...

OPINION: AKK GAS PIPELINE: PRESIDENT BUHARI’S BIG INFRASTRUCTURE PUSH

One of the big promises made by President Muhammadu Buhari in his campaign for Nigeria's presidency is the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project. The project entails the "engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning" of 614-kilometers gas pipeline and stations, traversing the...

OPINION: EDO/ONDO: RIGHT TO LIFE OR RIGHT TO VOTE?

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It was a mark of statesmanship for President Muhammadu Buhari to have steered the ruling party leadership from a potential mutually destructive brinkmanship and imminent " politicide" defined as additive acrimony and deafening collapse of compromise, comradeship and cooperation....

OPINION: AN ILLUMINATING FARMER-TO-FARMER STORY IN MOROCCO

Bill Nichols served as a volunteer consultant to the High Atlas Foundation (HAF) through the Farmer-to-Farmer Program (F2F) for two weeks in January 2020. Originally from New Mexico, now residing in Boston, Bill collaborated as an F2F volunteer with...

OPINION: ON ISLAM AND BLOODLETTING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA

Something is amiss in African religiosity and sense of piety because sometimes the African holier-than-thou-ness comes across as shocking and surreal. It is difficult to understand that Africans, in this case, African Muslims and to be specific Northern Nigerian...

OPINION: THE GAINS OF IPPIS

The acting Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HCSF), Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan. The Head of Service of the Federation, Folasade Yemi-Esan, says the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, has helped to attain projected savings to...

OPINION: PARTY POLITICS; APC AND PDP AS SIAMESE TWINS

You don't ask a toad to give you a chair. You can vividly see it's squatting. To say that Nigerians are easily excitable people is stating the very obvious and indeed our political players do not spare any effort...

OPINION: THE POLITICS OF AJIMOBI’S DEATH

Except something else occurs that grabs the headlines and dominates Nigerian social media, the big news of the past week would probably be the death of Senator Abiola Ajimobi and the political drama that it has generated. Senator Ajimobi...

OPINION: NIGERIA: LOOKING AHEAD TO A PLANNED FUTURE UNDER PMB

Will the world and its economy return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic? The answer to the above question will probably be in the negative. Already, the term, "the new normal", which has gained global currency suggests that the...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY: TUNDE BAKARE, RCCG, OYEDEPO, NIGERIA & CRITICISMS

Pastor Tunde Bakare of Latter Rain Church is a Pastor with fierceness in two ways, build Church and build Nation. He probably understands that physical and economic welfare in the place of origin is better for Faith in JESUS, than...