Category: Opinion

By Abdu Rafiu Among the responses to last week’s column on Bobrisky was the surprise by one of the readers that there is so much difference between man and woman beyond the physical and the physiological. In the physical, the most obvious being in the reproductive features. A reader asked: “You mean there is so […]

By Abdu Rafiu Bobrisky has been in public glare for quite a while, but more compellingly following her imprisonment for six months two weeks ago. Her life has been controversial and so, predictably, her imprisonment. A trans-gender, she has been an editor’s good copy and delight for what many consider as her defiance in life, […]

By Abdu Rafiu In every direction we look, in every aspect of public life and relationships– business or private, there is considerable evidence that man has lost his sense of shame. Hardly do we hear it said, “It is a no-go area for me; it is an abomination. I cannot be found in or with […]

By Abdu Rafiu The idea of our returning to the Parliamentary system of government is seriously being mulled. This is as a result of the frustrations the country has been experiencing since 1979 when we embraced the American Presidential system. The Presidential form was brandished before our gaze in 1975 as the veritable tool for […]

By Abdu Rafiu It cannot be for nothing that we human beings are endowed with the faculty with which to reflect, to weigh and examine, to think and in the words of a wise man, think and think until thinking hurts. Over the Ages, there have been pronouncements and concepts which have been accepted hook, […]

PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu’s new plan to bridge Nigeria’s colossal infrastructure deficit is both ambitious and audacious. To actualise it, the Federal Executive Council on Monday sanctioned the Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund, a parastatal targeted at constructing capital projects without the notorious delays associated with budgeting and bureaucracy. The President’s intent resonates with Nigerians of […]

NIGERIANS might still have a long wait to experience effective policing. In a note after its monthly meeting of March, the National Economic Council said only 16 of 36 states had submitted memoranda to it on the establishment of state police. Although NEC, statutorily chaired by the Vice-President, refused to name those liable, it means […]

By Abdu Rafiu It is in our character as human beings to turn every anniversary into a celebration. There is dancing and rejoicing. Easter is here and what will happen in Christendom was already foreshadowed last Sunday during Palm Sunday processions. Tomorrow which is Good Friday, except in places some young men act the crucifixion […]

NIGERIANS are living in very difficult times. Fresh reports that Nigerians are deserting their farms in several states due to banditry and other forms of insecurity are ruinous. In a damning report on March 20, this newspaper said that farmers are dying in scores from bandit attacks. Others are being kidnapped. The worst-hit states are […]

By Abdu Rafiu I have received a mail in which the writer has expressed curiousity about events of past centuries and those of the present time. He contends that there have always been disasters. He states that human beings have always fought wars and there have always been natural disasters. In the writer’s own words: […]