Opinion

OPINION: BATTLING THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF ‘FAST FASHION’

A call for sustainability in the fashion world, as effects of climate change continue to bite The numbers are astronomical: to make one pair of jeans, it takes close to 8,000 litres of water—the amount a person drinks over seven...

OPINION: KANO STREET CHILDREN, A TIME BOMB

“Our lives begins to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr. I cannot imagine that in the 21st century Nigeria, with the abundant natural and human resources Nigeria is blessed with. With the...

OPINION: BIGGER THAN AFRICA: TALES OF THE YORUBA PEOPLE

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Conversations with filmmaker Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye The Yoruba people, one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, have survived for centuries on the African continent. Evidence points to a powerful Yoruba kingdom in the eighth century in Ile-Ife. They lived...

OPINION: CRUDE OIL STEALING: WALAHI, NNPC IS NOT A SERIOUS AGENCY

When the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, on Tuesday, 18th February, 2020, said "Any threat to the corporation's operations was a direct threat to the very survival of Nigeria because of the...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY, LGBTQ+, TRANSGENDER, GAY, HOMOSEXUAL & CHURCH

What if after same sex marriage, an individual decided to totally surrender to Christ, should the individual divorce that spouse, go for the opposite sex and marry again? What if a child feels uncomfortable in a gender and decided that...

OPINION: I HAVE THE VIDEO; NIGERIANS HAVE YOU WATCHED IT?

Applying a little wisdom and a little stupidity is how a king administers his kingdom. So I have the video, do you have the video, if you have it, have you watched it, who produced it, how about the actors,...

OPINION: LETTER TO EL-RUFAI @ 60: YOUR REPUTATION FOR HYPOCRISY OVERSHADOWS THE GOOD YOU DO

Dear Mallam El Rufai, Happy Birthday. Let me first start by saying I have nothing personal against you. Expect to see me singing your praises when next you do anything that calls for such. You I must say, are a...

OPINION: THE LEADERSHIP CRISIS SCOURGE

From the content of Hernando De Soto's book; The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, a book about the transformation of dead capital into live capital through the institution of formal property...

OPINION: JUDICRACY AND THE FAIRNESS IN BEING UNFAIR

Abraham Lincoln described democracy as “government of the people, by the people, for the people” during the American civil war in 1863. His notion later became the often quoted definition of democracy and a benchmark of rating its success...

OPINION: MEDIA AND ADVOCACY AGAINST WITCH PERSECUTION IN AFRICA

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches has launched an initiative to end witch hunting and witch persecution in Nigeria and in Africa in the year 2030. Media establishments are critical to the realization of this objective. Waging an effective campaign...