Category: Opinion

Shiite cleric Ibrahim El-Zakzaky is seen in Kano on July 28, 2021 upon his release. – A Nigerian court on Wednesday acquitted and released Shiite cleric Ibrahim Zakzaky, who had been detained for murder with his wife since 2015, one of his lawyers said. (Photo by – / AFP) The handling by the Nigerian State […]

By Femi Adesina Former Governor of Anambra State and running mate to Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election, Mr Peter Obi, flew into the eye of the storm some days ago, when he said on the breakfast show of a television station that the Nigerian economy couldn’t be driven on infrastructure development. Mr Obi, […]

By Olukorede Yishau It was immediately after the June 12, 1993 presidential election. Bashorun MKO Abiola had won decisively all over the country, even defeating Bashir Tofa in places you would have expected ethnic affinity to guarantee him success. Then Messiah Ibrahim Maradona Evil Genius Badamasi Babangida had a vision: Declaring Abiola the winner would […]

Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed By Phil F. Aragbada The startling revelation that the Federal Government spent N2.34trillion out of a total sum of N3.25 trillion accrued revenue in 2020 on debt servicing, to put it mildly, shows a potent recipe for economic bankruptcy.Expending over 72% of the annual National revenue on debt servicing in one […]

By Afis Ayinde Oladosu “O! Ibrahim, you have indeed fulfilled the vision; this indeed is how We reward the good-doers (Quran 37: 105). “Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith… because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses; They did not prevent one another from committing sins nor would they […]

By Rosalind Mathieson The world is focused on one global crisis, but another is erupting. The immediate priority is Covid-19, as the delta variant sweeps through countries that had thought they were coming out of the pandemic but are now struggling to vaccinate people. Even so, the most comprehensive report to date shows that climate […]

By Hope O’Rukevbe Eghagha There is hunger in the land. Real hunger. Hunger for food. Hunger for truth. Hunger for security. Hunger for reassurance that the Nigerian dream is not going off in a puff. Hunger for heroes, for real heroes. Hunger for true religion. Hunger for stability. Hunger for ethnic harmony. Hunger for the rise […]

Nigeria, undeniably, is at war with itself and delicately mangled between brutal terrorists in forests and inept leadership at the peak. Nowhere perhaps is the war more evident than in the Nigerian Middle Belt, particularly in the Benue, Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Niger and Zamfara states axis. The persistent and methodical killings of natives in that […]