Opinion

OPINION: TRANSFORMATION TO IMPUNITY?

"If the point of life is the same as the point of a story, the point of life is character transformation. If I got any comfort as I set out on my first story, it was that in nearly...

OPINION: SHARING THE ECONOMY: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN INCOME INEQUALITY IN AFRICA

Globally: One of the major economic happenings bedevilling the global community in the twenty century is the rising inequality gap between the poor and the rich. Income inequality has increased in both advanced and developing economies in recent decades. Increasing inequality...

OPINION: BIOFORTIFICATION OFFERS HOPE FOR AFRICA’S MALNOURISHED RAISING THE NUTRITIONAL VALUE OF CROPS

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Many people who live in Lira district in northern Uganda consider Perpetua Okao a farmer and a life saver—and it is easy to know why. Her neighbour's son was malnourished and often sickly. But after feeding him a diet...

OPINION: DIARY OF AN UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE (DOAUG)

Every under graduate's dream is to excel in his academics, graduate from higher institution and start a career. The need to write this Diary Of An Unemployed Graduate (DOAUG) was necessitated because of the high level of unemployed graduates and...

OPINION: BRICK HOUSE 2015: THE OPTIONS LEFT FOR THE KALABARIS

With current happenings in the political firmament of Rivers State, the Kalabaris and most Rivers Ijaws are now left with only three options which they must as a matter of urgency apply or forget about the Brick House for...

OPINION: STILL ON THE 16 MOLES IN THE RIVERS PDP GOVERNORSHIP RACE

While serious contenders and political parties are busy strategizing and working hard to ensure victory at the 2015 general elections, starting from the primaries, an association of 16 governorship aspirants masquerading as PDP members have been jumping from one...

OPINION: PDP AND THE ABIA RATING; BEFORE WE MISS THE POINT.

In the last few weeks, the PDP Publicity Directorate has been on tours of states across the nation to showcase the achievements of PDP elected and appointed officers in the past 15 years as a way, not only to...

OPINION: OBASANJO DOES NOT OWN NIGERIA

When Senator Iyabo Obasanjo, daughter of the former president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, wrote a vitriolic letter to her father some time ago reminding him that he does not own Nigeria, many of us thought she was a bit too...

OPINION: B’HARAM INSURGENCY AND ATIKU’S CHICANERY

Last Monday, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar was so moved by reports that the terrorist sect, Boko Haram, captured Mubi, that he held a press conference to invite international assistance towards containing the growing insurgency. He was so distressed...

OPINION: WARD BASED CLUSTER PROJECT AS STRATEGY FOR RURAL EMPOWERMENT

The role of Science, Technology and Innovation (ST&I) in any nation cannot be overemphasized. As part of efforts to rescue the future of Nigeria and its people from poverty and deprivation, the Federal Government in 2012 approved the national...