Opinion

We must examine the myth of Traditional Medicine as we learn Chemistry, Biology and Physics from primary schools to the university level. Africans are the only ones that still see Traditional Medicine as Fetish, Voodoo and Mystical. Other continents...

As it stands now, the fate of Mubarak Bala, Nigerian humanist who was arrested last week is unknown. Nobody is sure if Mr. Bala is alive or dead. If he is alive, no one knows the conditions of his...

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...