Opinion

OPINION: A BUMPY ROAD AHEAD WITH COVID-19

The world has finally seen a glimpse of light at the end of this dark tunnel. The coronavirus outbreak is starting to level off across many countries and cities. Looking at the new daily infected cases and death toll...

OPINION: NIGERIAN ELECTRICITY SECTOR: A HOUSE OF FRAUD

For years, prior to the privatization and commercialization exercise of year 2013 that was supervised by the Bureau of public Enterprises with the corruptly rooted emergence of eleven privatized electricity distribution companies (DISCOS) and six equally corruptly selected six...

OPINION: WILL NIGERIANS SOON WIPE OUT EACH OTHER?

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I know that the dominant health topic now is Coronavirus (or, if you like, Chinese Virus), but I feel compelled to draw attention to some egregious practices by some callous and cruel Nigerians that are ruining many lives daily in...

OPINION: COVID-19: NIGERIA’S INNOVATIONS, IDEAS, OR THE LACK OF IT

Let me start this way, a man was trying to get some rest in his home, it is the say at home, stay safe ere, the following conversation ensued with his wife. Wife: Hermann? Husband: Yeah? Wife: what are doing? Husband: Nothing Wife: Nothing? Wife:...

OPINION: LOCKDOWNS AND HOMESCHOOLING

The global closure of schools in the wake of the Corona Virus pandemic was an obvious safety call. However, the level of preparedness required for such a call is obviously missing. It is common knowledge that many children who...

OPINION: COVID-19: COMMON SENSE RELIGION AND AMNESIA CONCERNING AFTERLIFE

You may be wondering if a common-sense religion has a place for an afterlife. That is indeed a valid concern because life is a key element in the religious enterprise. In fact without life, human life, there is no...

OPINION: LOCAL HOSPITAL & CONVALESCENT CENTERS NO MORE A PRESIDENTIAL SNUB

Political and business men of timber and Calibre are back into African Teaching Hospitals they have ignored until this Coronavirus strikes. This is what it takes to realize they have been patronizing the wrong hospitals overseas at the risk...

OPINION: NIGERIA AND THE LIFE AFTER

In Nigeria, my country of close to 200 million people, the COVID-19 lockdown began on March 30 in Lagos, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). As with nations the world over we are following the advice of a scientifically-led national...

OPINION: GENERAL ADENIYI REMOVED FOR WAILING OVER BOKO HARAM? IS NIGERIA ALLERGIC TO TRUTH? 

Subterfuge. Propaganda. Lies. All have a date with truth. The truth is inexorable; it will always extinguish lies and propaganda. Nigeria's ''successes'' in the war against Boko Haram have been largely propaganda. Since 2015, when the Buhari administration declared...

OPINION: SOCIAL MEDIA, NGOS AND THE NIGER DELTA STRUGGLE

When Oil was discovered in Nigeria in 1956 at Oloibiri in the Niger Delta after half a century of exploration by Shell-BP, and the nation joined the ranks of oil producers in 1958 when its first oil field came...