Opinion

OPINION: TRACKING TAX EVADERS AND DEFAULTERS

Hard times await tax evaders this year, the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has said. The agency has launched a national intelligence gathering system to prevent tax evasion. The system will gather data that will be used to expose...

OPINION: HOW SECURITY FORCES AID KIDNAPPERS

Years back, in Mafoluku, Lagos in my neighborhood, as it then was, there was this commando style armed robbery operation that happened. As the story goes from the eye witnesses who relayed the information to us then, the gang of...

OPINION: WORSHIP: UNDERSTANDING HOW RCCG, ADEBOYE PREACHES

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RCCG messages, preaching and sermons are often a continuation of their worship sessions. They discuss stories of miracle, signs and wonders in the Scriptures. They refer to testimonies from Church members, or events that show the Power of GOD. The message often...

OPINION: CEPEJ: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE PEACE AND SECURITY IN A TROUBLED NATION  

From the approach, the Centre for Peace and Environmental Justice (CEPEJ), a Pan African non-governmental, non-religious, non-political and not-profit civil society organization, utilizes internationally and locally identified strategies, partners with relevant stakeholders within and outside Nigeria, to promote activities geared towards peace building,...

OPINION: CHRISTIANITY, WORSHIP, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY AND PAIN

One advantage for devout Christians in whatever challenge or situation they face is worship. There is always one thing to remember about the Creator that could take the mind through the rough road of life’s tribulations. Sometimes, it is to...

OPINION: UNIVERSITIES AS MINI PROJECT CENTERS FOR COMMUNITIES

Universities must not be turned into business centers to generate profit alone, but can also be of value beyond academics to their communities. Unfortunately, these days in many African countries, schools have degenerated to cash cows. Some graduates are...

OPINION: OSUN: THE STORM FORESEEN (1)

To a casual observer, the philosophy of maize signifies that the process of life is gradual. The first thing you see in maize, when it is growing, is the root, followed by the shoot, before the leaves eventually appear. What...

OPINION: THE ALARMING AND OVERBEARING DEMAND FOR GRATIFICATIONS IN NIGERIAN AIRPORTS: THE NEED FOR A COMPLETE OVERHAUL

Apart from the numerous airstrips built mainly by the Nigerian military and multinational oil companies, Nigeria has 31 airports out of which only 5 are functional for international travels. With the soaring number of licensed pilots, aeronautic engineers/technicians and cabin personnel...

OPINION: ASABA DEMOLITIONS: BETWEEN ECONOMIC SURVIVAL AND CITY BEAUTIFICATION

'The goal of government should be to improve the life chances of the citizens - German Sociologist, Ralf Dahrendorf.' The unprecedented spate of unrelenting demolition of the so called shanties and illegal structures in Asaba, the Delta state Capital by...

OPINION: NIGERIA & THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE

Numbers are eternally fixed. Two is two and five is five. Two is not five and five is not two. Their combinations often produce infinite results. Two plus two cannot be twenty two and five plus five cannot be...