Opinion

OPINION: BURATAI SAYS 10 YEARS NOT ENOUGH TO DERADICALISE ISLAMISTS, WHY THE HURRY TO FREE BOKO HARAM SUSPECTS?

My theory. Boko Haram is an enterprise. The wheel of the war must be kept spinning for the profiteers and racketeers of blood. The insurgency has raged on for more than a decade. And when it appears the vestiges...

OPINION: SCIENCE, CHRISTIANITY – IS SUICIDE GUESSWORK?

There’s so much guesswork in the process that leads to established science and technology that it is almost impossible to not involve guessing – or more acceptably referred to as experimenting. When some people say throw things and see what...

OPINION: PRESIDENT BUHARI MUST MOVE AGAINST INSURGENTS

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The recent killings by the Boko Haram elements must be visited with resentment, organization, intelligence, strategy, professionalism and determined approach by President Muhammadu Buhari and the security chiefs, if they mean resolving this menace once and for all. This...

OPINION: THE CORONA VIRUS CHALLENGE, NIGERIA AND OTHER RESPONSES

The biggest threat to our collective humanity today is not the suspected threat of a Third World War, but a corrosive, debilitating, murderous pathogen known as new Corona Virus. The fear of a World War III was fuelled by...

OPINION: STRENGTHENING THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC WELLBEING OF CORPS MEMBERS

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has said the monthly allowance of corp members has been increased to N33,000. Ibrahim revealed this while addressing corps members during a working visit to the...

OPINION: THE ANATOMY OF CORRUPTION FIGHTS IN NIGERIA

Right from the moment Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI), a flagship research product  which  measures the glimpse of perceived corruption in the public sector of surveyed countries, released its 2019 report, different comments that  will safely qualify as...

OPINION: THE CHURCH DESTROYED BY ENVY AND SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS

Another way to look at the story of the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, who offered strange fire before the LORD, which He commanded them not, is of envy and self-righteousness. The priests were in duty, in the presence...

OPINION: A REASON TO SEPARATE THE IGBO FROM NIGERIA 3.5

Mr. Kassim, You wrote the excerpt below (among other points): While I find the renegotiation of the Nigerian union as a plausible idea with a promise of better co-habitation among all of her citizens, I consider the idea of negotiating the...

OPINION: INSECURITY: WHAT BUHARI HAS DONE, AND IS DOING

Each time he itemizes the three focal areas of government, President Muhammadu Buhari follows the same order: we shall secure the country, because you have to first secure a country or institution before you can efficiently manage it. We...

OPINION: ACCEPTANCE FEE; A METAPHOR FOR EXPLOITATION AND DEVELOPMENT COLLISION

There was a veiled agreement among participants at a recent gathering in Obiaruku, Delta state, Nigeria, that as a nation; if achieving a people-purposed leadership forms part of our aim as a nation, if accelerating economic development is our...