Opinion

OPINION: UWAILA OMOZUWA: RAPE AND MURDER SO GRUESOME!

"One life taken in cold blood is as gruesome as millions lost in a pogrom."—Dele Giwa (Nigerian Journalist assassinated in 1986). After five whole years of seeking admission into the institution of higher learning, Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa was eventually...

OPINION: LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL FINANCIAL AUTONOMY: OUR PRESIDENT IS STILL ALIVE

The autonomy of the three arms of government is the very foundation of federalism. It is the foremost of its sterling attributes and its most selling points. This concept is well embedded—in principle—in Nigeria’s federalism. A cursory look at...

OPINION: THE ILLOGIC IN ANAMBRA SOUTH ZONING LOGIC

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There wouldn’t have been any need for this write-up if not for the growing tendency of our people in Anambra south senatorial zone to misunderstand and misrepresent the meaning of politics. First, I am neither a PDP, APC or...

OPINION: WHY RCCG’S ADEBOYE PREACHES SIMPLE SERMONS

There is sometimes an expectation for a Pastor to deliver big in sermons, delivering points from the Scriptures, using anecdotes, crosslinking inspirational samples, seem relatable, sound quite smart and not discuss much on judgement. This standard or around it defines...

OPINION: WE MUST RENOUNCE OUR TRIBAL IDENTITIES; I’M NIGERIAN NOT IGBO

The current of the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the US has surged tremendously in Nigeria – a country in the thrall of its own unique kind of ''racism'' – tribalism. Nigerians held protests at the embassy of the US in...

OPINION: BREAK THE CHAINS OF ECONOMIC, CULTURAL & RELIGIOUS INDOCTRINATION

How do we explain to the children that we have lived a borrowed and fake culture all our life? An African adage implores we must not throw the baby out with the bathwater. We pride ourselves as International Boy...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY, ATHEISM, RAPE & PORN – IS SEX EVIL?

What is it about sex that makes it responsible for so much trouble? Why is sex so enticing – making unknown and some known risks secondary, in moments before it? What is wrong sex and what makes it wrong? What is right...

OPINION: NIGERIA IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD ON FREEDOMS

In the heat of the current global campaign and protests against systemic and deeply entrenched racism in the United States of America and other parts of the World which came once again to the limelight with the killing by...

OPINION: AKINWUMI ADESINA: THE INSIDE STORY

By his bow tie, you know him. And that distinguishing feature was firmly in place when Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), breezed into the Presidential Villa at Abuja on June 3, 2020. One of the...

OPINION: ASSESSING BUHARI’S FIVE YEARS IN OFFICE

Muhammadu Buhari, a retired army general turned politician, was sworn in on May 29, 2015, as an elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for a first term of four years. A former military Head of State and...