Opinion

OPINION: WHEN ‘DEMOCRATS’ LEGISLATE AUTOCRACY

The current ninth National Assembly right from inception has traveled from one journey of insanity and incomparable infamy to another and seems to be in a race against time to become the most anti- people session  of virtually all...

OPINION: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI ON THE NEW $22.7 BILLION LOANS APPROVAL

Your Excellency, I hope this letter meets you well. Like many fellow citizens, I have had serious concerns about your proposal for new loans totalling $22.7 billion. Except for the concerns, I should be congratulating you on securing the Senate’s approval...

OPINION: NIGERIA: AMNESTY BOSS APPOINTMENT: TASKS AHEAD OF FG

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It is general knowledge that President Muhammadu Buhari, precisely on Friday 30th February, 2020 approved the suspension of the Cordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, and Professor Charles Dokubo, with a promise to set up a caretaker committee to run the...

OPINION: FAMILY BREAKUPS ABROAD TOO PAINFUL FOR AFRICA

It used to be that if you go abroad and failed after four years of first degree, six years for masters or ten years of Ph.D. you are too embarrassed to return home. Village people would visit your families...

OPINION: YES, ADAMS CAN LEAVE!

Dear Sam, I take a cue from your missive titled *"Adams or Leave?"* published in your usual column in the Nation Newspaper of 9 Monday 2020. Permit me to declare my interest here: I am a friend and an...

OPINION: AMALA AND THE CORONAVIRUS PATIENT: MATTERS ARISING

Of all the updates that have been given so far by the Lagos State authorities on the government's efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus, and ensure proper care for the reported index case, and other possible cases (there...

OPINION: REHABILITATING PRIMARY HEALTH CENTRES AND AVAILABILITY OF BASIC HEALTHCARE

The Minister of Health, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, says additional 10,000 Primary Health Centres (PHC) will be rehabilitated to boost healthcare delivery across the country. The minister made this known while addressing State House correspondents at the end of the meeting...

OPINION: ON SANUSI’S DETHRONING: THE NORTH ONLY BEHEADS THE BEARERS OF TRUTH

Northern Nigeria is prostrate. It is the axis of uglies – banditry, insurgency, kidnapping, diseases, ignorance, and drug abuse. Alas! The region's elite are aware of the problems, but look away because the disequilibrious status quo sustains them. What...

OPINION: SCIENTIFIC CONFUSION OVER CORONAVIRUS – CHRISTIANITY, ITALY, KOREA & MICROBIOLOGY

In a world of incredible scientific capability, massive military power and economic might, the coronavirus has shown how unknowns, fears and uncertainty outstrip the confidence of nations. The scientific confusion of COVID-19, changing information, diverging prognosis, relapses, mutations, symptom emergence,...

OPINION: BLACK HUMANISM: RELIGION AND EMANCIPATION OF YOUTHS IN AFRICA

The seventh anniversary celebration of the Association for Black Humanists (ABH) deserves commendation because embarking on this myth-bursting and stereotype-shattering initiative has not a mean feat. It's an astounding achievement. So hearty congratulations! Humanism is a universal outlook that...