Opinion

OPINION: AFRICA MOST AFFECTED BY REFUGEE CRISIS

Ethiopia and Uganda praised for open-door policy As Germany, France and other European countries contend with an unprecedented influx of refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, shocking tales of women and children drowning in the Mediterranean Sea are repeated...

OPINION: THE PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Although Christians have lived in the Middle East – the birthplace of Christianity – for nearly two thousand years, as a result of years of persecution and discrimination, especially in the past 15 years, they now constitute no more...

OPINION: AJIMOBI: THE TRAJECTORY OF AN ENIGMA @ 67

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Celebrating ones existence on earth is not by the total number of chronological years, but to really showcase what the person has been able to do to affect the lives of people around or close to him positively. There...

OPINION: ARIK AIR GOES UNDER IN NIGERIA

I got information that my leader, Mentor and the servant Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will return to Nigeria yesterday after weeks of vacation and business trip abroad. I was to be at Abuja international Airport around 8- 8:30pm  to...

OPINION: UDOM: RISING TO THE OCCASION OF LEADERSHIP 

Leadership is a complex art that requires unique skills. The manifestations of its deposit in any individual are usually tested at periods of challenges. The tragic incident of the collapse of Reigners Bible Church International during the planned Bishopric...

OPINION: AS KANO STATE HOLDS INTERNATIONAL ANTI CORRUPTION DAY

On Monday, 12th December 2016, the Kano State Government in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Justice organised this year's International Anti-Corruption Day. The event was attended by many government representatives including anti-corruption agencies, National Orientation Agency, states governments...

OPINION: WHY IT IS TOO EARLY TO GIVE UP ON THE BUHARI GOVERNMENT

This piece was motivated by the apparently growing disillusionment with the Buhari government, especially on his handling of the economy. Many people, including some of the passionate Buharists, seem to have given up hope that the President would be...

OPINION: BUHARI, JONATHAN AND JAMMEH OF GAMBIA’S U-TURN

Ever since former president Jonathan made that call to president Buhari congratulating him on his “victory” at the last presidential polls, and following the enormous goodwill that has attracted to him worldwide, it is fast becoming a norm in...

OPINION: RABID, AGGRESSIVE OBASANJOISM

There is this malaise that former President Mathew Okikiola Oluseg­un Obasanjo has refused to extirpate from his character, so, it looms large in the despicable footprints he has left on Nigeria’s unfortunate history. And if we could look earnestly...

OPINION: FROM NIGERIA, GAMBIA TO GHANA; PSYCHOLOGY OF AN AFRICAN ELECTORATE 

Technology assisted voters card readers, cyber based pervasive media has greatly permitted positive impact on electoral process in Africa, where real time circulation of results is possible. These technological possibilities and the new policy by electorate to wait for...