Opinion

OPINION: STILL ON FEEDING SCHOOL CHILDREN AMIDST COVID -19 PANDEMIC

The minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Farouk Umar and her team in the ministry in one’s estimation are people of timber and caliber who rose or were appointed to the position they occupy as...

OPINION: LOOKING BEYOND COVID-19: DEVELOPING NIGERIA’S HEALTHCARE SYSTEM

The current COVID-19 pandemic has taken the world by storm and shaken the health systems worldwide. Nations that apparently had advanced and sophisticated health systems have struggled to deal with this pandemic. Current morbidity and mortality figures show that...

OPINION: NIGERIA; DEMOCRACY AND THE LOST BATTLES

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OPINION: COVID 19: ONCE AGAIN NIGERIA ABANDONS ITS CITIZENS IN SOUTH AFRICA

As the COVID-19 pandemic spreads like wildfire around the world, leaders of several nations instituted emergency efforts to repatriate their citizens from foreign shores. For Nigerians in foreign lands, accustomed to the usual incompetence of their officials, there was...

OPINION: GEORGE FLOYD: BLACK-AMERICANS’ OUTRAGE AND NIGERIA’S RARE CHANCE TO COURSE-CORRECT

Whether Donald Trump and the GOP likes it or not, a movement of rage has begun in America. The movement has been largely symptomatic of the latent rage of Black-Americans and the oppressed people of colour in America, and...

OPINION: N-POWER AND SADIYA FAROUK’S DETRACTORS

In my early days as editor, one day, as I agonised openly over what I had considered was a misreading of my intentions leading, at times, to hostility towards me, my colleague Tony Nzotta, asked me to come over...

OPINION: REORGANIZATION OF THE POLICE FOR MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY

The Federal Government has approved the reorganization of the Nigeria Police with the creation of an additional department, five Zonal Commands and granting of full autonomy to the Force Intelligence Bureau (FIB). The Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), DCP...

OPINION: POLITICS AND NIGERIA’S ELECTRICITY SECTOR

While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national life which require equal attention both now and after COVID-19 – the increasing spate of insecurity in...

OPINION: ABDULRAHMAN ABDULRAZAK: A CELEBRATION OF NON-PERFORMANCE

It has been one year since the present government in Kwara State was ushered in through a sea breeze of change. It was seemingly a reflection of a general feeling of peoples malcontent with the system as it then...

OPINION: DONALD TRUMP, THE AFRICAN STRONGMAN IN AMERICA

One of the five cardinal objectives of the United States foreign policy is ''promoting and supporting'' democracy. The US has fought wars and spent billions of dollars ''promoting and supporting'' its own genre of democracy in other countries –...