Opinion

OPINION: DECONGESTION OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICE CENTERS IN THE MIDST OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC

President Muhammadu Buhari has called for urgent measures towards the speedy trial of cases and decongestion of custodial centres in the country, in view of COVID-19 pandemic. The President has also suggested to the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, to consider setting...

OPINION: BUHARI, NOW IS TIME TO SLASH SALARIES, ALLOWANCES OF POLITICAL OFFICERS BY 70%

Nigeria is an impoverished country. In fact, the country has never been rich – in the economic sense of the word. The assumptions of wealth have always been hyphenated to the abundance of crude oil and other natural resources....

OPINION: UTU AND WITCH-HUNTING IN SOUTHERN NIGERIA

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While overwhelming attention on witch-hunting in Nigeria has been on the activities of pastors and other 'powerful' godmen and women in Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, little attention has been paid to the operations of witch-finders in other...

OPINION: MY LAST CONTACT WITH ABBA KYARI

He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not forever. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, has gone the...

OPINION: CRUDE OIL PRICE CRASH AND THE DIVERSIFICATION OF THE ECONOMY

President Muhammadu Buhari has already diversified the Nigerian economy, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has claimed. He pointed to Nigeria's exiting of recession as proof that some other critical sectors like agriculture and mining were now contributing...

OPINION: SADIYA FAROUQ AND THE BURDEN OF EXPECTATIONS

BEVERLY HILLS, April 21, (THEWILL) - Every crisis throws up either a hero or a villain. Most often, the person at the epicenter of the crisis, either as provocateur or solution, does not necessarily have to be the leader,...

OPINION: TO THE NEW GENERATION OF PUBLIC OFFICERS

Before you become a public office holder, you must realise that the people or citizens are your employers. They have a right to ask you questions and comment on your actions or inactions. It is a given. Thereafter, it is up...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY, COVID-19: RICHARD DAWKINS’ EXTINCT ATHEISM

As the world awaits science on how to beat the coronavirus, morality – or say doing things right is sort. There are reports of concealed deaths in nursing homes. There are reports of ‘unethical’ furloughs. There are reports of ‘unfair’...

OPINION: AU STUDY: COVID-19 COULD COST AFRICA $500 BILLION, DAMAGE TOURISM AND AVIATION SECTORS

Up to 20 million jobs in the formal and informal sectors in Africa could be lost because of COVID-19, according to a new study by the African Union. Released in early April, the study found that foreign direct investment (FDI),...

OPINION: ABBA KYARI: A DEATH

Aso Villa, Nigeria's seat of presidential power is bereaved. On Friday, April 17, 2020, it recorded its first major casualty of the Corona Virus disease, in the person of the President's Chief of Staff, Malam Abba Kyari. With Kyari's...