Opinion

OPINION: FG-NASU FACE-OFF; TIME FOR TRUCE

Communication, in the words of Grunig and Hunt (1984), is the biggest tool mankind has as a potential way of overcoming difficulties. But in most cases, we have it abandoned and embrace traveling the circumference of chaos before coming...

OPINION: PRESIDENTIAL STATE VISITS AND ALL THE BOJU BOJU

'Boju boju, akara nbo, she kin shi' meaning the masquerade is coming with a (Bean ball) delicacy, do I open it. "...A stifled, caged and gagged populace can only be marginally propensible to positive political interaction. In a similar vein,...

OPINION: INSECURITY AND THE CLAMOUR FOR STATE POLICE: BEYOND SLOGANEERING AND GRANDSTANDING

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Whenever the question of restructuring and devolution of powers have been raised by the contending factions and fractions of Nigeria’s prodigal ruling class, one of the issues that have always been brought to the fore is that of State...

OPINION: HUMANISM AND ITS POSSIBILITIES IN AFRICA

I want to share with you the reasons why I am a humanist and why I have devoted the last two decades of my life working and campaigning to promote humanism in Africa. Humanism is a way of thinking...

OPINION: 2019 ELECTION SEQUENCE: OVERRIDING PMB’S VETO

By writing to both chambers of the National Assembly to express his reservations about the Electoral Act 2010 Amendment Bill, President Muhammadu Buhari has  withheld his assent and cast doubt on the rationality of the lawmakers to review or...

OPINION: SKEPTICAL AFRICA: HOMEOPATHY IS SUGAR, NOT MEDICINE

Funding for homeopathic medicine is coming to an end in the UK. The BBC has reported that from April the Royal London Hospital, which used to be called Royal London Homeopathic Hospital will no longer be financing homeopathic remedies....

OPINION: OBASEKI AND THE DIALECTICS OF OPPOSITIONAL POLITICS

The political developments in Edo state, presently, are akin to a game of football in which two teams are determined to run away with victory.  The match has been intense and energy-sapping.  Controversial goals have been scored.  And just now, due to...

OPINION: OSINBAJO’S DEFENSE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S APPOINTMENTS

Human beings are such complicated creatures who can hardly be satisfied. And Nigerians, though great in mental capacity and wisdom, have proven to be amongst the most complicated of God's creatures on earth. At least, I have come in...

OPINION: LAGOS STATE AND THE POLITICS OF TAXATION

The government of Lagos state seems to be currently in the eye of the storm over its introduction of a law, a property tax as it were, known as the Land Use Charge Act of 2018, which repeals a...

OPINION: SO IGP IDRIS DISOBEYED BUHARI, ABANDONED BENUE TO CELEBRATE BIRTHDAY?

The first task of Ibrahim Idris, inspector-general of police (IGP), when he assumed office in 2016, was to probe Solomon Arase, his predecessor. Idris had alleged that Arase privatised official vehicles on his departure, rendering him "immobile". But this turned...