Opinion

OPINION: PARTNERSHIPS: CREATING OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH

Public, private and civil society organisations team up to tackle unemployment A decent job is an essential marker of a young person’s success. It provides financial security for his or her future family and contributes to the economic growth of...

OPINION: WHY CORONAVIRUS MAY BE DEADLIER IN NIGERIA: A HOUSING PERSPECTIVE

Before this moment, Nigeria has been commended across the world for her readiness to combat and contain the coronavirus. Now that the virus is ravaging the country and other countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), we must brainstorm the absences...

OPINION: NIGERIA: ONE COUNTRY, WASTED VISIONS

Ask ZiVA 728x90 Ads
“We must make sure about two things, namely: that our principles are just and that are methods are practical; for nothing destroys her own ends as unjust principles and impractical methods and approach.”- Obafemi Awolowo. Twenty three years ago, yours...

OPINION: LESSONS FROM THE CORONA VIRUS PANDEMIC SO FAR

The Corona Virus pandemic is still making its way around the world and delivering lessons to mankind. There are lessons already taught and many more to be taught. So far we have learned or relearned these: That there is only...

OPINION: CORONAVIRUS ISOLATION CENTRES AND CHURCHES AS DEATH TRAPS: REVIEWING ENUGU STATE AND LAGOS CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE

Corona Virus isolation centres in Nigeria are death traps. Those who surrender themselves there may end up with Corona virus and colonial virus all put together. That was the unfortunate incident in Enugu when a 70 year old woman...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY, CORONAVIRUS, ANTI-SEMITISM, HATE & JUDAISM

There is a place that hate fills in hearts. It is mostly a tool for diversion, and sometimes a catalyst for satisfaction. Hate is almost natural, it is hard to be in any sociological structure and not be adapted to...

OPINION: CHILDREN ON THE GRASS, NIGERIA’S COVID19

A child said what is the grass? Fetching it to me with full hands, how could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he. —Walt Whitman SARS-CoV-2 or COVID19, now declared a global...

OPINION: COVID-19 AND COMMON-SENSE RELIGION

There is a new religion, a new world religion. This religion has suddenly taken over from various religions. This new religion is an umbrella religion that encapsulates others-African traditional religion, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Bahai. Even the non-religious...

OPINION: POLITICS OF JUDICIAL INTEGRITY

"The state shall abolish all corrupt practices and abuse of power," Section 15(5) of Nigerian constitution. One area of life in most jurisdictions in which the perception of corruption and loss of integrity has a multiply effects that dovetails into...

OPINION: WHO WILL EXPLAIN CORONAVIRUS TO BUHARI? 

Coronavirus (COVID-19), an exorable doom, threatens life on the planet. It is exorable because it is conquerable. This explains why world leaders are taking the charge to combat this ominous apocalypse. It is a time for leadership from the...