Opinion

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...

OPINION: 2018 BUDGET AND THE PALTRY ALLOCATION FOR EDUCATION

My worries about the several months of delay in passing the 2018 Budget of Consolidation were abated as the Senate finally approved it on Wednesday, 16th May. But my heart turned to jelly as I read the breakdown of the...

OPINION: BIAFRA FREEDOM AND THE QUEST FOR IGBO INDEPENDENCE

Since the last nineteen years there has been a revival of the quest for the reestablishment of the defunct Republic of Biafra. Between 1967 and 1970 Biafra existed as an independent state apart from Nigeria. The boundaries of the...

OPINION: ON FATHERS’ DAY; TO THE IG OF POLICE AND SIMEON

The policemen did not attack the robbers People: No mind dem The policemen attacked the robbers People: Dem just wan kill themselves. I was watching some little kids play soccer. These kids were only five or six years old, but they were playing...

OPINION: MKO ABIOLA AND JUNE 12: IS NIGERIA’S DEMOCRACY DEAD OR ALIVE?

MKO Abiola won the 1993 presidential election. The election was the freest and the fairest election held in Nigeria. The tooth-gap dictator-butcher IBB dastardly murdered both the winner and our democracy. Ever since, we're yet to recover from the...

OPINION: COLLAPSE OF NATIONAL SECURITY: NEED TO ACT DIFFERENTLY

The Chairman of Nigeria Governors Forum and Zamfara State Governor, Abdulaziz Yari on Friday alerted the nation to the intrinsically flawed national security architecture when he officially announced his resignation as the Chief Security Officer of his state. Coming from...

OPINION: IF OSHIOMHOLE WINS APC CHAIRMANSHIP

"I strongly believe that with the experience I have gathered in my public life, having served as President of NLC, governor of Edo, I have what it takes to take our dear party, the ruling party, to the next...

OPINION: HOW PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI IS BEGGING NIGERIANS AHEAD OF 2019

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari may be asking for absolution from Nigerians through his ongoing choice to the youth of the nation. Buhari is a retired major general in the Nigerian Army and was the former Nation's head of...