Opinion

It is a common knowledge that The Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, at the Investigative Public Hearing on Power Sector Recovery Plan and the impact on COVID-19 Pandemic, organised recently by the Senate Committee on Power, insisted that the new...

'Among the many frustrations in development, perhaps none looms larger than the "resource curse." Perversely, the worst development outcomes -measured in poverty, inequality, and deprivation - are often found in those countries with the greatest natural resource endowments. 'Rather than...

Celebrities worldwide have been associated with rape culture, and Nigerian celebrities are not an exception. The difference is that rape cases involving Nigerian celebrities are variously underreported because admirers of the musician, artist, actor or pastor, usually talks down...

“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.” Proverbs 22.29. The above eternal words from the wisest man that ever lived in Bible times, King Solomon, ring true...

Screeching on television in February 2018, Remi Tinubu, wife of Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu, let out a bellow. She said her husband was ''trashed'' (her word) after the 2015 election. Her wailing: "I was hurt what...

During the time when Mental Hospitals around the world had mental patients admitted, there were violent ones among them, even assaulting their caregivers that had to be restrained on a daily basis by health and mental workers without guns....

It was Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States of America, who observed that "politics is a contact sport." Participants, either out of ambition or by the sheer nature of the sport, have to come in friendly...

President Muhammadu Buhari Something good is already happening. Something marvelous is in store, as the Federal Government kickstarts the $2.8 billion Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) National Gas Pipeline Project next Tuesday. It’s another humongous signature milestone by President Muhammadu Buhari, which will...

No one could have imagined the full extent of this COVID 19 pandemic when we all enter this year 2020 on 1st of January. As mankind works at finding answers to this new extraordinary challenge, all sorts of reasons are...

To appease the international community, Nigerian authorities have told British parliamentarians that Nigerian humanist, Mubarak Bala, has been charged in court in Kano. They claimed that he was charged with insulting religion. This is not exactly the case. This...