Opinion

OPINION: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND ITS PASSION FOR UNROMANTIC INSERTIONS

Insertion! This word entered my offender's register in 2016. At the time, Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman, house committee on appropriations, was a caterwauler; he cried out, alleging that the leadership of the house of representatives was involved in impassioned...

OPINION: BUHARI’S JUNE 12 DECLARATION: A THIN LINE BETWEEN A BRIBE AND AN HONOUR

Growing up in a rural community in Bendel State now in today's Edo state, I remember fervently how candidates and parties use to bring bags of salt, rice and boxes of sugar as "gifts" for the women folks in...

OPINION: BUHARI’S AUDACIOUS DRIVE AND DEXTERITY FOR A BETTER NIGERIA

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Evidently,  President Mohammed Buhari has evolved a pragmatic blueprint (change agenda) for the capacity to live and develop Nigeria, and three years of the holistic implementation of the change agenda of this current administration is beginning to bear fruits...

OPINION: ABIOLA AND GANI WERE HUMOURED

One wonders why it took our president this long to make us happy as a country. President Muhammadu Buhari for once did something that gladdened our hearts all by recognizing late Chief M. K. O. Abiola as the beacon...

OPINION: BUHARI’S AUDACIOUS DRIVE AND DEXTERITY FOR A BETTER NIGERIA

Evidently, President Mohammed Buhari has evolved a pragmatic blueprint (change agenda) for the capacity to live and develop Nigeria, and three years of the holistic implementation of the change agenda of this current administration is beginning to bear fruits...

OPINION: AS THE NATION CELEBRATES

It is a time-honored saying that the interest, 'subjects take in their leader does not lie in the leader's physical and intellectual abilities, but, lies rather in what he can add to their lot in life'. Standing as a telling...

OPINION: SUPER EAGLES AND MARCUS THE PIG AT THE WORLD CUP

There has been nothing in recent memory like the build up to Nigeria's first match at the on-going 2018 FIFA World Cup tournament in Russia. Football is Nigeria's greatest unifier: when it is football, our compatriots drop all ethnic,...

OPINION: NNIMMO BASSEY: GUARD OF OUR COLLECTIVE EXISTENCE

We take nature for granted, extract our living from it, abuse, pollute and exploit it to the extent that we have changed the climate thereby endangering our very existence. However, there is a Nigerian Reverend, architect, poet and environmentalist,...

OPINION: JUNE 12 AND OTHER PRESSING MATTERS

"On behalf of the Federal Government, I tender the nation's apology to the family of Late M.K.O. Abiola, who got the highest votes and to those that lost their loved ones in the cause of June 12 struggle." This,...

OPINION: CAN HUMANISM PROVIDE ANSWERS TO GLOBAL INEQUITIES?

The lure of humanism is its universal appeal, and its global sense and commitment to human beneficence is its strength and compelling force. An international meeting of humanists, such as the International Humanist and Ethical Union's Conference to be held...