Opinion

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...

OPINION: THE DISTURBING SUCCESS OF CORONAVIRUS: WHO WILL SAVE THE WORLD?

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These are very abnormal times. The earth we labored to build is shutting down before our eyes and we have no magic wand. Although we’ve faced several challenges in our lifetimes, overcoming them never made us thought something so...

OPINION: THE COQUETTISH POLITICS

Coquettes, according to Robert Green, the author of; "The 48 Laws of Power," are experts at arousing desire through a provocative appearance or an alluring attitude. Their strength lies in their ability to trap people emotionally, and to keep...

OPINION: CHACHA’S MURDER AND UGWUONYE’S 491 DAYS OF INCARCERATION

A recent post on the Facebook group of the Due Process Advocate - DPA reminded me of the fact that the founder of DPA, Chukwuemeka Ephraim Ugwuonye is still languishing in Kuje Correctional Center, Abuja, where he is remanded,...

OPINION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF COVID-19

Nigeria announced its first COVID-19 case on February 27 - an Italian who came into the country on February 24 and displayed symptoms of the disease while visiting Lafarge Cement Company in Ewekoro, Ogun State. He has been treated...

OPINION: ISOLATION WITHOUT GIRL-FRIEND, ALCOHOL, CIGAR, COFFEE OR TEA DEADLY

What is life in your fifties to eighties if you are left in physical isolation from your family, even in the same house? Life without either your girlfriend, chocolates, alcohol, cigar, coffee or tea in moderation will be miserable....

OPINION: COVID-19 AND THE DARK SIDES OF THE MEDICAL WORLD

According to preliminary test trial reports, of 350 patients administered with a combination of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin medication in the state of New York, within 3-4 hours, breathing was restored, zero intubation, zero hospitalization and zero death. If the above...

OPINION: COVID-19 AND END OF FAITH HEALING?

Has the outbreak of the coronavirus marked an end to faith healing practices in Nigeria, Africa and the world? This question has become necessary because traditional, Christian and Islamic faith healing claims have been rampant. And they include claims...

OPINION: ARE THE ALARM BELLS RINGING A TIMEOUT FOR NIGERIA?

If "Covikk one nine (1.9)" as pronounced by President Buhari in his (COVID-19) broadcast does not rouse us all to the ever present dangers we are in as a nation, I wonder what else would? And if it turns...