Opinion

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

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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...

OPINION: POWER SECTOR REFORM AND TARIFF HIKE

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...

OPINION: PETROLEUM SECTOR AND NIGER DELTA REGION IN A POST COVID-19 NIGERIA

'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...

OPINION: NIGERIAN CELEBRITIES AND RAPE

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...

OPINION: CAPTAIN HOSA: OF DILIGENCE, HONOUR AND OTHER MATTERS

“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...

OPINION: BUHARI BACKS GIADOM: HAS TINUBU FINALLY BEEN TAMED?

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...

OPINION: CAUGHT BETWEEN TWO BRUTALITIES: POLICE OR GANGS

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....

OPINION: A DAY OF BIG WINS FOR PASTOR OSAGIE IZE-IYAMU

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...