Opinion

OPINION: GOVERNANCE AND EXECUTIVE RECKLESSNESS IN RIVERS STATE

One of the most dangerous things about being Governor of Rivers State is the enormous amount of money and uncontrolled power at the feet of the Governor. They become impervious to advice, reason and balanced judgement. And then cost us hundreds...

OPINION: THE CASE FOR A SEA WORTHY PORT IN TINAPA

We have all had our say about the merits and demerits of a seaport in Eastern Nigeria with our usual curses and defamatory words. The main explainers of why there are not and should not be a sea port...

OPINION: MUBARAK BALA: SPEAK OUT AGAINST RELIGIOUS TYRANNY IN KANO

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Today marks a week since the police arrested Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala in Kaduna. They later transferred him to Kano. His arrest was over a post that he made on Facebook, which some Muslims said insulted Prophet Muhammad. The...

OPINION: THE ROLE OF THE PMB ADMINISTRATION IN THE CONTAINMENT OF COVID 19

The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Nigeria on the 27th of February 2020. When the lockdown was announced by President Muhammadu Buhari on the 27th of March, there were 65 confirmed cases in the country, but today,...

OPINION: BOKO HARAM: NIGERIA’S FEMALE COMBAT PILOTS GO TO WAR

Flight Lieutenant Kafayat Sanni and her peers of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF), are living their dreams as Nigeria's first female fighter pilots; even as she readies to go and kick asses of some Boko Haram and Islamic State...

OPINION: ABBA KYARI, AND THE LESSONS LEFT BEHIND

Aside from the sad feelings that greeted the sudden demise of General Sani Abacha on the 8th of June, 1998, and that of President Umoru Yardua on the 5th of May, 2010, the Friday, April 17, 2020, episode remains...

OPINION: PREVENTING COVID-19 TRANSMISSION IN NIGERIAN URBAN SLUMS

From where it was first reported in Wuhan in the Peoples Republic of China in December 2019, the pandemic of the SARS-CoV-2, or Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19), caught the entire global community unawares, inflicting a deadly blow on the global economy....

OPINION: COVID-19, OH NIGERIA, “GAMBU”

Gambu You dey sing for thieves Gambu You go sing for me Person wey befriend rat go chop shit but I go Still dey follow you if you you swim for shit Love only me and be my own, Gambu Gambu Make we no climb ontop the...

OPINION: COVID19: APOSTLE SULEMAN AND FIVE THOUSAND DOLLAR HEALING CHALLENGE

Once again I am challenging, the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman, to heal a coronavirus patient and get a sum of money, this time a higher amount-five thousand US dollars. I am throwing the challenge one more time...

OPINION: WHY CORONAVIRUS WILL BECOME AFRICA’S CATASTROPHE

Coronavirus disease (Covid-19) is giving humanity its toughest challenge since 1918 - when influenza killed more people than during World War I. Since its outbreak late last year in Wuhan, China, Covid-19 has infected over 3.3 million persons and...