Opinion

OPINION: COVID-19 RESPONSE MUST TARGET AFRICAN AGRICULTURE AND THE RURAL POOR

Agriculture contributes 65 per cent of Africa's employment and 75 per cent of its domestic trade Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the continent looks like it could be the worst hit...

OPINION: OBASEKI’S OBSESSION WITH OSHIOMHOLE

If Adams Oshiomhole were a woman then we would have safely concluded that Governor Godwin Obaseki is romantically obsessed with him. Why wouldn't one conclude such when Obaseki has used all his resources in pursuing Comrade Adams Oshiomhole; why...

OPINION: AKWA IBOM COCONUT REFINERY, NIGERIA’S FUTURE BECKONS

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When Governor Udom Emmanuel set out to lubricate the once virgin well of agriculture in Akwa Ibom State with the establishment of Africa's biggest coconut oil refinery, most people had no idea of coconut's enormous potentials. But the Governor...

OPINION: THE PANACEA TO THE TREATMENT OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the importation of the acclaimed coronavirus remedy by Madagascar to Nigeria. Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, made this known during a briefing in Abuja recently. Mustapha, who is also...

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

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...