Category: Opinion

ByTunde Odesola Cocaine, opioids, and alcohol addiction is in the same league as tobacco addiction, says the Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada’s largest research and mental health teaching hospital. Members of the opioid family include heroin, morphine, codeine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and fentanyl, according to the Johns Hopkins University medical website. Unbelievable! Cocaine, heroin, […]

By Ugoji Egbujo Our Senate is a luxury. Akpabio, the Senate President, can’t choose his words carefully. Recently, he reminded a female senator that the Senate is not a nightclub. He was rebuking her for not obtaining his permission before speaking. In his flippancy and uncouthness, idleness could be gleaned. Senator Akpabio received a letter […]

By Funke Egbemode Not having sex before marriage ought to be good. Restraining yourself from all that tantalizing stuff is tough alright, but that is what the Bible says. Uncle, no touching; aunty, no sneaking. Keep the marriage bed undefiled. All solid contents must be kept in the bra and in the boxers. You can […]

By Tunde Odesola Now that my father and mother are dead and have gone to where the elderly go to rest their bones in death, I can confess my cigarette addiction. Not that either could put their hands on a Bible and vow that their firstborn was a nicotine-free teetotaler, but both card-carrying Christians thought […]

By Wale Adebanwi As the intellectual class contested, overtly and covertly, the attempt by the military to dismiss or destroy the collective will of Nigerians, the social and cultural ferment that defined the second half of the 1980s and 1990s Nigeria represented the last chapter of a country that once existed: a country in which […]

By Lasisi Olagunju On a bright, randy day in Lagos in the year 2015, a judge hurriedly used the law to dissolve a troubled marriage. Three months later, the woman was discovered impregnated by the tender-hearted judge. I pray that won’t be the case with the benevolent presidency of Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Nigeria’s local […]

By Lasisi Olagunju Justice Ibrahim Kolapo Gambari, JCA became the Emir of Ilorin in August 1995 and decreed the ‘Kolapo’ in his name abolished. He said he should thenceforth be known and called Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari; all former documents remain valid. He gave no reason for his decision but not a few of us thought […]

By Mike Ozekhome, SAN The Supreme Court judgment today, July 11, 2024, directing the Federal Government to pay allocations due to Local Government Areas directly to their account thereby abolishing the old practices of State-Local Government Joint Account, is timely and courageous. What the judgment has done is more like interpreting section 162 of the […]