Category: Opinion

By Tunde Odesola Dear Hajiya, With gratitude to God for a vacation well spent, I, Babatunde Odesola, Esq., heartily rejoice on the safe return of the First Lady, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, to Nigeria after spending 4,380 hours in the cozy United Arab Emirates city called Dubai, away from the kisses and cuddles of her aged […]

Oil spill. Photo: aljazeera.com Apprehension being generated in parts of Delta State over recent oil spill indicates lack of sufficient government presence and representation of people in the area. Otherwise, government, as protector of the people’s welfare, should have been the body sounding alarm and taking charge of the situation rather than wait for fear […]

Based on study of the history of nations and as outlined in my article, you should please read it in its entirety. Here are Nigeria’s problems: colonialsm. Like in most of post independence Africa the boundaries Europeans created, were artificial and never existed before the advent of colonialism. They were created for the purpose of […]

By Emeka Omeihe Fiery Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi was treading on a familiar turf when he told bandits that Christian soldiers are responsible for attacks mounted on them by the military. Even when he later claimed his statement was misunderstood, the reasons adduced ended up reinforcing his narrative to the bandits. A video clip […]

The ploy to remove the minimum wage from the Exclusive List seems dead on arrival with critical stakeholders promising to ensure it does not see the light, writes Tony Akowe The minimum wage is as old as the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which was founded in 1919. The 1919 ILO Constitution, in its preamble, notes […]

Sheikh Gumi, left, handing items to a bandit’s leader at a meeting By Mike Kebonkwu I would like to start this discourse by stating some basic wrongful assumptions that have heightened the ethnic tension of north-south dichotomy and the growing animosity.  First is the assumption that the Fulani herdsmen are the bandits behind the kidnappings, […]

By Ahmed Adamu It was not a surprise the real price of petrol in Nigeria shot up to N212 per litre. In fact, it could still reach N300 per litre depending on the market situation, particularly crude oil price and exchange rate. If there are no sufficient local refining capacities, there are going to be […]

By Patrick Dele Cole Nigeria was better than we are now. We recognized our responsibility to bring the African from slavery, discrimination and to imbue Africans with pride. Walter Rodney and a host of other African intellectuals and freedom seekers saw Nigeria as African’s champions and Nigeria responded. We led the fight against Apartheid in South […]