Opinion

Violent crimes, such as armed robbery, assault, carjacking, kidnapping, and rape is almost commonplace throughout the country. Most Travel Advisory would ask that one exercise extreme caution throughout the country due to the threat of indiscriminate violence. Terrorists continue...

Democracy is freedom; freedom to exist and to exercise the full catalogue of natural rights. The quality of democracy in an ordered system is assessed by the quantity and level of freedom the citizens enjoy. Any type of government –...

A few weeks ago while looking through the dailies, attention at the Civil Empowerment and Rule of Law Support Initiative, CERLSI, was drawn to a news item indicative that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had at last decided...

Atheism was the focus of a seminar by the Centre for Islamic Civilization and Interfaith Dialogue (CICID) at the Bayero University Kano. The seminar was held on September 12, 2019. Panelists explored the topic: Social Media and the Rise...

The Federal Ministry of Health must take urgent measures to stop roving pastors and clerics from entering hospital wards to openly pray for patients of all faiths and none. The practice is against medical ethics and violates the rights...

The reason people from the richest countries leave and come to Nigeria we hate so much, is because Nigeria is the easiest place in the world to make money; as long as you can hold your nose, they say....

Few days back, I occupied my self with the usual habit of reading through all the editorials of at least the key national newspapers in Nigeria. This was done to read the pulse of the nation given that the primary...

I am getting sick and tired of the raging violent conflicts overseas and the political mess here at home which is consuming us day in and day out. I thought that for a change a little levity is in order. During...

As background to this piece, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924, in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1963. He founded ZANU, a resistance movement against British colonial rule. Mugabe became prime minister of the new...

Those who are still hoping that the African continent might someday reinvent itself for the better are at best hallucinating, at worst living in the world that's out of it. Africa has remained a basket case and no amount of outward...