Opinion

OPINION: ANAMBRA AND THE CHALLENGES OF COVID-19

In my Easter message to the good people of Anambra state a few weeks ago, I noted that the disruptions to the global economy brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic will be huge. Monitoring the spread of the virus...

OPINION: QUARANTINE REGULATION: AUTHORITARIAN OBASEKI PLOTTING TO KEEP HIMSELF IN OFFICE WITH ILLEGAL RESTRICTIONS

Very many suspect that Governor Godwin Obaseki is unstable, but none thought his instability had dug so deep, deep enough to conceive the thought of obstructing the constitutional guarantee of periodic election into the office of Governor of Edo...

OPINION: COVID-19: OBASEKI, PHILIP SHAIBU AND THE BIG CONCEALMENT

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Yesterday, I received the notice of concern raised by the Edo State Chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists. The issue addressed by the honorable body is important and vital, especially as we are in a period of great...

OPINION: WE ARE ALL ATHEISTS

It is now over two weeks since police detectives arrested Nigerian atheist, Mubarak Bala in Kaduna in Northern Nigeria. His arrest was in connection with posts that he made on Facebook. The petitioners said that the posts insulted the...

OPINION: AJAOKUTA: RESUSCITATING A SLEEPING GIANT

The Federal Government has inaugurated the Ajaokuta Presidential Project Implementation Team aimed at realising the economic diversification agenda of the regime of President Muhammadu Buhari. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, is the chairman of...

OPINION: COVID-19 LOCKDOWN: TITHES, OFFERINGS, OFFERTORY IN DANGER

The Covid-19 lockdown imposed upon the churches in Nigeria by unbelieving, paganistic and ritualistic government officials have put tithes, offerings and offertory in danger. Endangered include seed faith offerings, thanksgiving offerings, second collections; project Sunday collections, collections for St...

OPINION: 2020: THE YEAR OF THE BRAVEST FRONTLINE SOLDIERS

When 2020 was declared ‘The International Year of The Nurse and Midwife’, I was amazed and honored by this annual World Health Organization theme being a nurse myself. It was the first of its kind, a year dedicated to...

OPINION: AKINWUMI ADESINA: BEST MAN FOR THE AFDB

The Board of Governors and the Ethics Committee of the African Development Bank (AfDB) have given Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, the Bank's President, a clean bill of health in a report dated May 5, wherein it is stated that Adesina...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY – BLACKS, AFRICAN AMERICANS, RACISM, ACTIVISM & KNOWLEDGE

It is possible that an undesirable place is waiting to get something from an individual or group – in possession of a need. The appeal, insistence, positioning, etc. is a process in situations every day across the world. But, the default...

OPINION: ZONING ANAMBRA GOVERNORSHIP: THE ANTITHESIS

For the German philosopher G. W. Hegel historical progress is the evolution of the Absolute. This evolution follows a definite pattern. A thesis is posed in the events of the world. From this thesis a counter or antithesis arises;...