Category: Opinion

By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha Sunday the 5th of June 2022 started like any other Sunday in the year. It was a day set apart for God-worship universally. And for the faithful men and women who trooped into St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church Owo that Sunday, they expected to meet God in spirit, seek His grace, […]

By Abimbola Adelakun By now, you must have seen the viral video of Catholic priest Rev Fr. Kelas Gogwim, who stopped parishioners without their Permanent Voter Cards from entering and observing the mass in his parish. According to the priest, they must show their PVCs or not show up. He intoned, “If you don’t have […]

By Niran Adedokun Nigeria is full of endless and unnecessary drama. As life flows out of one contestation, we kindle another one that will reverberate and keep us busy for another fortnight. Within this period, more serious countries are tackling issues that improve the standard of living of their people and better position their countries […]

By Azuka Onwuka On Friday, the Independent National Electoral Commission announced that based on the reports it received from some states about “unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wish to register as voters and the challenges they face across the country,” it held a meeting and decided to deploy additional 209 machines to […]

A heap of weapons, seen on April 21, 2022 as part of small arms and light weapons recovered from bandits during Operation Safe Haven and during the military mop up in Jos and surrounding areas in Plateau State in northcentral Nigeria. – The Nigerian military under the platform of Operation Safe Haven has handed over […]

By Sly Edaghese One would like to know from President Buhari if he had a candidate in the just concluded APC Presidential Primaries! If he had, who was the candidate? My guess is that the president had a candidate but he abandoned him in the middle of the ocean to face the sharks on a […]

By Dan Agbese Thomas Erskine, a British lawyer, defended Thomas Paine on charges of alleged treason in absentia on the publication of his book, The Rights of Man. In his address to the court on December 18, 1792, Erskine, famous for his flowery language, said, “Methinks, I see this noble and puissant nation, not degenerated […]

In what may be described as a case of an institutional victim of leadership misadventure, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has been declared by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) untrustworthy and ipso facto, unfit to keep sensitive election materials for the forthcoming elections – soon in the case of Ekiti, Osun states, and […]

By Dele Sobowale “Prophets are accustomed to being ignored.” Anonymous. Accurate prophecy is a divine gift; it should not be commercialised. I am a prophet in a small Church, but, I don’t do it for profit. I announce what the spirit directs only; no more no less. That is why my predictions are always precise […]