Opinion

OPINION: NIGERIA’S URBAN SLUMS AND HEALTH PROBLEMS

In Nigeria, access and quality of health care services area challenge particularly for disadvantaged populations. While health services are far better in the urban, compared to the rural areas, there remains a significant variation in health care services across...

OPINION: PENTECOSTALS AND CRITICISM OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

It is scary to see the recklessness with which many, who attend other Churches, criticize the Catholic Church. Some love to take a stand, picking apart their doctrines like it’s a strategy for evangelism, or like the Church is the...

OPINION: HEROES REJECT ABUSE & PAY DEARLY AS SEXUAL CAPITALISTS EXPLOIT IT

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If you hear the sacrifice ladies made and penalty paid after turning men down for sex, some may be surprised. Professionals ladies have worked in circumstances worse than being underemployed like men. Some never practiced their career and others...

OPINION: RUINING THE LEGACY OF THE NIGERIAN JUDICIARY: A CASE STUDY OF THE RECENT AGITATION OF THE DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT IN PRE-ELECTION...

The recent applications by some persons to the Supreme Court for the review the decision of the apex court in the appeals which emanated from the decision of the Tribunals in the recently concluded elections is quite worrisome and...

OPINION: WHERE IS BABACHIR LAWAL? IS HE STILL ON TRIAL?

On December 14, 2016, the senate asked Babachir Lawal, secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), to immediately resign from office. This followed the recommendation of its ad hoc committee on the humanitarian crisis in the north-east, which...

OPINION: KANO’s SIMPLISTIC FIGHT AGAINST BEGGARS

Kano is no doubt a big province in Nigeria due to its large land mass and huge population. In the earliest interactions with Western civilization, it used to be a West African trading post especially in the area of textiles...

OPINION: IT’S A SECURITY STRATEGY TO INVOLVE MIYETTI ALLAH IN AMOTEKUN

As I said in a column in June 2019, security is everybody's business. No individual, group, institution or organisation is nugatory in matters of security. All efforts are needed and all hands must be forged into one fist in...

OPINION: NIGERIANS FORGET VERY QUICKLY

“I sincerely believe that the incessant cries about Igbo marginalization in Nigeria is unfounded” - Ola (Kassim) Mr. Kassim in a well written article (On Feb 17, 2020, at 3:43 PM,) wrote the above. He went to try to prove the...

OPINION: THE COMMERCIALISATION OF GAS FLARING SITES

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has stated that over 200 bidders are competing for the available 45 gas flaring sites in Nigeria, adding that the national gas flare commercialization programme will be implemented from those sites at the...

OPINION: NIGERIANS FORGET VERY QUICKLY

"A lady in Chicago was reported to have used hammers to kill flies. When asked why, she replied that she wanted to make sure the sucker was dead! –Ezeana Achusim So...'Scientists are wrong', the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano said with...