Opinion

OPINION: THE CODE OF CONDUCT ENSHRINED IN THE CONSTITUTION OF NIGERIA AND ITS CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

It is a great honour and a privilege being invited to present a paper by the Legend and Patriarch, Professor Ben Nwabueze SAN, before a noble and distinguished audience on the occasion of the inauguration of Ben Nwabueze Centre...

OPINION: HOLLYWOOD EMBRACES NORTHERN NIGERIA MEDIA PROFESSIONALS FOR RELATIVITY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOPS

It was tagged #kannywoodmeetshollywood and it was billed as an integration of cultures, a brokerage of ideas, and a progressive exchange of media best practices that will eventually lead to the successful positioning of Nigerian (and indeed African) stories...

OPINION: GARBA SHEHU”S FOREX: TOO CHEAP A FALSEHOOD

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The brickbat between government and the opposition is taken a ridiculous dimension. False accusations are employed for personality attacks; falsehood are presented as facts, all in desperate bid to run down the current administration.   That is the context of the...

OPINION: BONI YAYI: OUR FRIEND NEXT DOOR

Our neighbours to the West, the Republic of Benin, have just concluded a Presidential election, which has been considered free, fair and peaceful, from the first round, to the run-off which produced businessman Patrice Talon as winner and next...

OPINION: MIXED RESULTS IN MATERNAL HEALTH GOALS ACROSS AFRICA

Lack of Resources Affecting Interventions Despite some success by Africa in achieving much of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), improved maternal heath has proved the hardest to deliver. The fifth development goal sought to reduce the maternal mortality ratio by three-quarters...

OPINION: COMBAT HIV/AIDS, MALARIA, TB AND OTHER DISEASES

New Cases Drop, But Numbers Still High   Africa made good progress in meeting Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 6, which called for halting and reversing  the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015, achieving universal access to treatment for the virus and stopping...

OPINION: WHY I STAND WITH BUHARI

General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, must be a rare genius in a class of his own. A man who tenaciously pursued his ambition of ruling Nigeria till he eventually became president after failing...

OPINION: CLOSING AFRICA’S ‘ELUSIVE’ GENDER GAP

Architects at the drawing board of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) identified gender equality and women’s empowerment as key to achieving all the other goals. Six out of the eight MDGs mentioned women and girls as priority targets. The third...

OPINION: ARE MANY NIGERIANS STOICS, HEADY AND HARDY OR EPICUREANS, GULLIBLE AND FOOLISH?

  Last week, I read Reuben Abati’s opinion published in The Will Internet Newspaper. In his write-up, he chronicled how the Nigerian people are “special people”, how resilient and unshockable people they have turned to be in the face of...

OPINION: THE PEOPLE AS THEIR OWN AMBASSADOR

I have thought over an issue in the last few weeks. Who are the best ambassadors of a country? The professional diplomats in well-tailored clothes, exhibiting a cultured presence aided by good diction? Or the citizens who fan out...