Opinion

OPINION: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN WOMEN MUST RAISE THE BANNER OF REVOLT

On the sad occasion of the fiftieth year of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, I will be writing a series of articles that will propose a number of peaceful people-to-people measures—which have been largely missing—that Israelis and...

OPINION: MODERN BIOTECHNOLOGY A BOON TO THE BIODIVERSITY: NIGERIANS BEWARE OF MISLEADING ACTIVISM

It has been globally recognized that the need for food security and improved agricultural system are paramount. The Sustainable Development Goals further reaffirms this with its second goal which seeks to end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition...

OPINION: ANTICS OF OBA AKIOLU OF LAGOS AND THREATS TO YORUBA UNITY

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Since the day the video clip of the controversial encounter and subsequent snubbing of Oba Enitan Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, by Oba Rilwan Akiolu of Lagos, became public knowledge, the outcry as the video trended on new...

OPINION: PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’S DANGEROUS POLITICS

The President of United States is in a class all by himself because a lot of world peace depends on him. It follows that in anything the president says or does domestically or internationally must be very measured. All...

OPINION: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE DIRTY NOTES

Are you a Nigerian resident not locked away from the everyday realities on the streets? Do you transact with the naira notes, especially the lower denominations? Well, depending on your financial class, you might have come across a worrying...

OPINION: DINO MELAYE, THE RABBLE-ROUSER IN THE SENATE 

In societies where people have a sense of decency, decorum and proportion, characters like Dino Melaye will not be allowed anywhere close to the fence of the Senate  building, not to talk of being a Honorable Distinguish Senator of...

OPINION: SLS, OBY AND THE WEAPON OF “FILTHY LUCRE”

I consider the tale-bearings targeted at two eminent Nigerians - His Royal Highness, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (SLS), the emir of Kano, and former education minister and co-convener of the #BringBackOurGirls (BBOG), Mrs Obiageli Ezekwesili- as allegations bordering on the...

OPINION: JAMB: WHEN TRUTH HURTS INFINITELY    

Many Nigerians resent truth. They abhor it and seek to cage it within   the prisms of their crooked instincts. When President Muhammadu Buhari   launched the national re-orientation campaigns for attitudinal change   tagged #ChangeBeginsWithMe, many Nigerians never saw the wisdom....

OPINION: AISHA BUHARI AND OUR TEENAGE GIRLS’ PROTECTION     

The cases of child sexual abuse and defilement of underage/teenage girls   at schools, at home and in between are quotidian. The story of the   16-year-old JSS III student of Day Secondary School Tunga Minna, who was   allegedly impregnated by...

OPINION: ON CORRUPTION FIGHT, WHY PRESIDENT BUHARI SHOULD SUSTAIN MAINA’s PENSION FUND RECOVERY EFFORTS

In Nigeria at the moment, there’s a word, or more appropriately buzzword that resonates everywhere: It is a word that even children in nursery school may be familiar with given every usual reference to it at the slightest opportunity. Indeed,...