Opinion

OPINION: MUCH ADO ABOUT CORRUPTION TI

Since the recent release of the Transparency Index rating on Nigeria, so much potopoto has been flying around. I have watched the Federal government pass buck by maligning the index, saying that it is the way it is because...

OPINION: PALESTINE: FORTY FIVE YEARS AFTER YOM KIPPUR!

It is almost certain that US president, the choleric Mr. Donald Trump, has not heard of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, otherwise referred to as the Yom Kippur war. Beyond his sheepish love for Israel, it is unlikely that Mr....

OPINION: ATHEISM AND RELIGIOUS HATRED IN ZAMBIA

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Atheists in the southern African country of Zambia are beginning to go open and public with their non-belief. But godless and god-doubting people in this country have a key concern: religious hatred. At the moment, atheists in Zambia have...

OPINION: WHEN LEGISLATORS DEBATE DRUGS AND SEX

The national legislature in Abuja has been busy embarking on high profile policy interactive sessions in different parts of Nigeria on the vexed twin societal evils of hard drugs and trafficking for sexual enslavement. Kano and Benin City have...

OPINION: IS BOKO HARAM REALLY DEFEATED?

The recent kidnapping of more than another 100 girls from the Government Girls Science Technical College in Dapchi, Kobe state shows that the sect is far from defeated: it still has the manpower, logistics, intelligence and organisational command to...

OPINION: UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN SECURITY DISCOURSE: WHAT NIGERIA SHOULD LEARN

Nigeria is a country that seems to have refused to benefit from the abundant security educational resources within its space. Rather than using research conducted by scholars in different areas of national development, successive government continues to engage in...

OPINION: DAPCHI 110: THE TRAGEDY OF A NATION

Karma is a bitch. Poetic justice is a bastard. Both have combined to wrong-foot the incumbent Buhari administration to make it look like a big mistake and an act of misjudgment by the Nigerian electorate. If Buhari had been...

OPINION: NIGERIA AND THE CORRUPTION PERCEPTION INDEX: PERCEPTION VERSUS REALITY

Perception and Reality are two different things – Tom Cruise For the last 25 years, Transparency International, an international body comprising of eminent persons from various countries, releases yearly reports on the corruption of about 180 sovereign nations. The findings...

OPINION: SK USMAN AND FOOTPRINTS OF A CULTURED IMAGE MANAGER

Those who have had the experience of superintending on the publicity profile of an institution like the Nigerian Army confess it is a herculean task, especially at times of multifarious local conflicts as currently obtainable in Nigeria. The frequency...

OPINION: THE TRAVESTY OF IGNORANCE AMONGST NIGERIANS

Ignorance is death in life. I recently enjoyed reading an analysis made on this deadly disease which many people take as a comfortable companion. The study put it that ignorance with poverty engenders criminality; ignorance with wealth creates corruption;...