Category: Opinion

By Martins Oloja There have been several Covid-19 matters miscellaneous to comment on at this time. More trees keep falling on trees and it has been intricate getting to identify which one has been on top at any time. It is not easy to ignore the economic capital of the North Kano, where an unknown […]

By Sylvester Odion Akhaine Many continued hoping that the epidemic would soon die out and they and their families be spared. Thus they felt under no obligation to make any change in their habits, as yet. Plague was for them an unwelcome visitant, bound to take its leave one day as unexpectedly as it had come. […]

By Femi Fani-Kayode Insults mean nothing to me. They only fuel my resolve and strengthen my determination. They are like water off a duck’s back and neither can they deter me from speaking my mind on any pressing or burning issue no matter how unpopular my position may be. Those that do not have the […]

By Kanenechi Emeka Eighty years of age, if what I heard of him is right, is a great age to leave the flesh. If it’s sixty seven, as I hear now, it isn’t too bad for someone who had his record in choice public service positions. Indeed I think, from the look of things presently, […]

By Martins Oloja ‘‘No man is an island entire of itself;every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;if a clod be washed away by the sea,Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as any manner of thy friends or of thine own were;any man’s […]

By Simon Kolawole On January 18, 2020, when I first read of the new coronavirus on the BBC website, my heart missed a beat because of what China means to the world. The headline was: “New virus in China ‘will have infected hundreds’.” And these were the opening paragraphs: “The number of people already infected […]

By Oyebola owolabi Uncertainties about delivery, breastfeeding and other maternal/child issues have become sources of worry for many expectant mothers. Some are too scared to even attend ante-natal clinics, let alone having their babies delivered in the hospital. The global lockdown is also not helping matters as many of them are worried about commuting to […]

By Tope Akinnola I learnt the other day, as reported by NBC News, of Bishop Gerald Glenn of The New Deliverance Evangelistic Church in Virginia, who died of coronavirus infection the day before Easter, and whose wife became seriously ill too of COVID-19. He was said to have held a crowded service previously on March […]

By Dare Babarinsa There are not many people who knew the world before the era of our father, Oba Kayode Sikiru Adetona, the Awujale of Ijebu-land, Ogbagba the second who has been on the throne since 1960. For six eventful decades, Adetona has done the same job with panache and profound commitment. He is the lord […]