Opinion

As Rivers State entered the second day of the total lockdown announced by Governor Nyesom Wike, many continue to question the strategic objectives of the painful and costly exercise by the government on the citizenry. Neither the governor nor...

I first met Willie, whom we fondly called Pa Willie, through my late friend Dr. Ime Umana (Imesco) in the mid 1980s. He and Ime were partners in a new BMW franchise with offices in Apapa, Lagos. He was...

According to Thomas Hobbes, life for man in the state of nature was, solitary, poor, brutish, nasty, and short. It was an era marked with great trouble as men, in their natural instinct for self-preservation, found right in might....

Covid 19 has become an enlightening and an unusual event. What is incontrovertible is that there is a huge gulf, a chasm of indescribable proportion between the "Governors" and we the "governed". Covid 19 has proven that. For one,...

Nigeria’s decision to ‘unwind’ the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in the capital, Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States refers. As we strive to “balance the need to protect health while also preserving livelihoods”, can we safely say that the worst of...

A society which eats, debases and abuses its young is a coven run by witches. The almajiri children are innocents socialised into a culture and system they did not create. They are just unlucky to be born in an...

After watching a video of racial intolerance, maltreatment and breach of the World Health Organization (WHO), procedure suffered in the hands of Chinese authorities by some blacks that allegedly had COVID-19 infection in Guangzhou, aside from being left lost...

Let’s tell the story of Venezuela, because it bears striking similitude with that of Nigeria. Just like us, Venezuela is rich in oil, very rich. At a time, the county’s problem was not money, but how to spend it. Just...

This is a piece around and about what I have seen about Corona Virus in Nigeria, from a sociological perspective, and not a report of any pathogenic experience. It has been more than a month since the Federal Government...

Even though by 2015, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had performed below the high expectations of many Nigerians and had rightly earned their rejection, I highly dreaded the disastrous possibility of Nigerians falling for the massive, overwhelming but...