Opinion

OPINION: ISLAMIC EXTREMISM AND LURE OF PARADISE

A paradise is one of the most powerful inventions of religions. It is a facility that religions have used to attract, hold, and control believers. A post mortem life in heaven is one of religion's most cherished goods. It...

OPINION: FIRING THE N-POWER VOLUNTEERS IN THE FACE OF BOOMING CRIME INDUSTRIES IS BRUTISH

If the Federal Government through the Office of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development makes good its announcement to exit the N-Power volunteers by the end of June and July without meaningful exit packages, it...

OPINION: 2023 ISN’T THE IGBO’S TURN FOR PRESIDENCY – IT’S NIGERIANS’

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How much progress has Nigeria made with its ethnic-motility politics? Since 1999, we have had presidents of different ethnic extractions – Yoruba, Fulani, and Ijaw – who were largely elected on the portfolio of ethnicity and religion rather than...

OPINION: MELE KYARI AND NNPC: ONE YEAR AFTER

A year ago, Mele Kolo Kyari was named as the Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). He succeeded Maikanti Baru, now of blessed memory. On July 8, 2019, the then incoming GMD made the...

OPINION: MY FULANI FRIENDS…FROM WHICH STATE?

Everything has beauty not everyone sees it—Confucius So over the week, I had the pleasure of some wonderful Fulani guests, two males and two females, they were all 'full' Fulanis, but one was black...Black Fulani are not an everyday sight....

OPINION: EFCC’S MAGU ‘ARRESTED’: WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE BUSH MEAT

BEVERLY HILLS, July 06, (THEWILL) - ''It has been long coming. Expect things to be done differently from now on,'' a source in the thick of things told me regarding the ''arrest'' of Ibrahim Magu, acting EFCC chairman, by...

OPINION; OSHIOMHOLE AND THE MAGNITUDE OF HIS POLITICS

In a season of partisan frenzy, with many red-eyed politicians focused on various power-grab projects, discipline, party supremacy and rule-governed processes become threatened, as it was in the enclave of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) until recently when...

OPINION: LOST NKRUMAH & NIGERIA: THE SAFE HAVEN WE RELIED ON

What happened to Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana and how did Nigeria lose its potential power as the place to be for all Africans at home and from diaspora? Seriously, both cease to exist when we need them most! It...

OPINION: WILL HERDSMEN PLUNGE NIGERIA INTO FOOD CRISIS?

One of the most worrisome developments in today's Nigeria is what appears like a firm resolve by the Muhammadu Buhari regime to continue circulating the very distressing impression that it does not know how to solve the endless aggression...

OPINION: WIKE VINDICATES BUHARISTS

Wike It came like a bolt out of the blue. Early this week, Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, issued an advertisement, which went in a completely different direction compared to what he had always said of President Muhammadu Buhari. The...