Opinion

OPINION: COVID-19, NIGERIA, AND THE REALTIES, THE CHANGES

With the COVID-19 pandemic reality is not far away, there are changes, is Nigeria ready, great country, great people, poor people, and very fragile nation. In the midst of an unprecedented crisis, it can be hard to see more...

OPINION: IS THE CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER FEEDING ON THE BLOOD OF THE POOR?

In the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic, we suddenly come to terms with many dysfunctional aspects of our life as a country. One such aspect is the conditional cash transfer, a scheme supposedly to benefit the poorest of...

OPINION: IMO, UZODINMA AND HIS ATTACK DOGS

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Nothing better captures the tragedy that has befallen the good people of Imo state than that at a time when functionaries of other state governments are doing their best to provide their people with the necessary information on the...

OPINION: COVID-19: KANO, OUR WEAKEST LINK

A chain is as strong as the weakest link. This idiom is used to express that a group can only be as successful as its least successful or powerful person. If one person fails, the whole group fails. Kano State recorded...

COVID-19: A DOUBLE BURDEN FOR WOMEN IN CONFLICT AREAS, ON THE FRONTLINE

SAN FRANCISCO, April 24, (THEWILL) - Since COVID-19 broke out in December 2019, it has continued to spread across the globe unabated, with countries at different phases along the curve Public health emergencies worldwide, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and...

OPINION: COVID19: ‘FAKE’ VACCINES AND BOGUS CURE CLAIMS IN NIGERIA

While the coronavirus is a killer pandemic, there is another factor that could exacerbate the management of the virus, and lead to the death of many people in Nigeria -- the proliferation of fake vaccines and bogus cure claims...

OPINION: MY RECOLLECTION OF THE LATE MALLAM ABBA KYARI

The late Mallam Abba Kyari was perhaps arguably one of the most generally misunderstood Nigerians in recent memory, which all boils down to his now famously very taciturn disposition. Another possible explanation for the widespread misconception about who he was...

OPINION: COVID-19 PANDEMIC: DO NIGERIANS NEED CELEBRITY ENLIGHTENMENT ON CNN?

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, co-chairman of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the world’s second richest man is unarguably one of the foremost philanthropists of our time. Were it not for the current outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic,...

OPINION: MALLAM ABBA KYARI: A RARE GEM WITH COURAGE OF PERSONAL CONVICTION

The Almighty Allah has decreed that "every soul shall taste death." Indeed that has come to pass for Ya' Abba and for us his loved ones and admirers world over. This is more pronounced in the encomiums showered on...

OPINION: NIGERIA LOST ITS BIG ACHIEVEMENTS TO CELEBRITIES & POVERTY MENTALITY

What do you do when you have no major accomplishment to celebrate, you beat your chests on achievement of other individuals. There are so many individual celebrations in Nigeria, you would think poverty has been conquered. The further down...