Category: Opinion

Obasanjo, Buhari Femi Adesina, Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, says only his principal has enough confidence to confront former President Olusegun Obasanjo, tell him his honest opinion on things “and survive it.” Obasanjo and Buhari have a few things in common. Obasanjo was Nigeria’s military head of state between February […]

By Fred Ohwahwa “The culture of only reading to pass examinations leaves us a barely functional society. It only enables us breed people who can barely think. And they are the ones who cede their thinking to their pastors, imams and politicians. And trust these categories of people – they take full advantage of this […]

By Segun Gbadegesin In the life of the nation, these are not normal times. These are troubled times. Many may consider this as an understatement. They may suggest something more dramatic. These are calamitous times. I concur. What with the unending spate of violence from terrorism to banditry, kidnapping, cultism and armed robbery? Or the […]

By Femi Adesina There’s this hilarious video that went viral recently. A boy had offended his mother, and was about to get a beating. Tearfully, even before he got whipped, the boy tried to plead his way out. As the mother told him to stretch forth his palm to be caned, he entreated: “Mummy, it […]

By Martins Oloja We should not allow the state of anomie that has paralysed most analyses of the way we are at the moment to pave the way for our elders in the news media to get away with their recent provocative and hasty act – naming the NIJ House after the late Ismaila Isa Funtua. […]

By Afis Oladosu …It is neither their meat nor their blood that reaches Him but your piety (Q22: 36-37) The Eid el-Kabir is the great Festival. It is great because of the merger which it evolves between the profane and the sacred. This is a festival which predates Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W); it is a festival instituted […]

By Dare Babarinsa Perhaps the probe into the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, would end in a whimper. So far no one has been arrested and no one is facing prosecution yet. However, we have all been gainfully entertained and that is enough for us. The former Managing Director of the NDDC may want to tell […]

By Niyi Akinnaso There are several strong reasons why I will not send my 10-year old girl back to school this year. First, there is an ongoing spike in positivity and hospitalisation or home isolation rates in my state, where the number of confirmed cases jumped from 292 on June 30, 2020, to 1,103 by […]

By Tunde Odesola Coronavirus is death’s latest stranglehold on the breath called life. Its mishmash surname, COVID-19, gives no damn about breaking ocular dams and flooding households with tears. Since 2019, COVID-19 has been busy digging graves worldwide, handing out shrouds to families to wrap their dead. Coronavirus isn’t joking. It’s seriously grinding humanity to a […]

By Uzodinma Nwaogbe It is disheartening that for months in Southern Kaduna, scores have been killed, houses and other valuables destroyed by bandits without security agencies doing anything to quell it. The worst hit are children, women and the aged. More regrettable is that the governor, Nasir Ahmad El’Rufai is having a good sleep at […]