Opinion

OPINION: SAVING INNOCENT LIVES: WITCHCRAFT ALLEGATIONS AND NATIVE MEDICINE IN EDO STATE

Intervening in cases of witchcraft allegations and witch hunting is a moral duty. It is a social obligation that should be fulfilled. Victims of witchcraft allegations are usually defenceless, helpless vulnerable members of the population, children, elderly persons and...

OPINION: BUHARI WHY

Sowore is not a terrorist, did not call for the breakup of the Country or threatened its existence as a religious or coup planner. He is not a money launderer, looter of Nigeria’s resources, 419 or ritualist. Sowore only...

OPINION: A SICK NATION AND HER SICKENING SECRET SERVICE

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The citizens' clarion call that the Department of State Services (DSS) should be scrapped forthwith by the act of national assembly and its operatives from top to bottom debriefed; re-educated, even rusticated or redistributed to other minimally functional paramilitary...

OPINION: APC’S DARIYE, KALU JAILED FOR FRAUD, BUT IS BUHARI’S CORRUPTION WAR STILL AGAINST OPPOSITION?

On June 12, 2018, Joshua Dariye, former Plateau state governor and senator, huddled in the dock awaiting the verdict of fate for pilfering N1.6 billion public funds at a high court of the federal capital territory (FCT). Dariye was lachrymal,...

OPINION: SOWORE: THERE WAS A CONSTITUTION IN NIGERIA

The re-arrest of Omoyele Sowore and his co defendant Olawale Bakare by the Department of State Security (DSS) is an all time low in the history of Nigeria. The commando move right in the court is a clear disregard...

OPINION: 100 FAKE PROFESSORS; A POINTER TO LARGER FRAMES OF CHALLENGE

Writing on the topic; The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer, Amar Bhide, Professor at Harvard University, among other remarks, noted that formulating a sound strategy is more basic to an organization than resolving hiring issues, designing control systems, setting reporting relationship...

OPINION: IN NIGERIA, HOPE IS OPIUM

The Fowl on a journey inside the basket does not know where it will end. There is this African riddle and I think it is most appropriate today and for the few words I have. The riddle asks, if you...

OPINION: FEAR OF WITCHCRAFT IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES

Some months ago, the BIC Ijiomah Centre for Policy and Research at the University of Nigeria Nsukka called for abstracts and presentations at an international conference on witchcraft. One expected the event to happen like other academic exercises. That...

OPINION: THE IMPERATIVES OF RE-NOMINATING IBRAHIM MAGU FOR SENATE CONFIRMATION

Upon assumption of office in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari left no one in doubt about his determination to 'kill corruption' in Nigeria. Fight against corruption was one of his major campaign promises both in the 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections. At...

OPINION: LAGOS AND THE PROSPECT OF A WASTE FREE FUTURE

Just recently, we introduced the Blue Box initiative – a waste collection programme designed to help residents sort recyclable waste from the source, that is, at the point where an item or material is considered waste. This eliminates the...