Category: Opinion

By Steve Obum Orajiaku [FILE] Palestinians search through the rubble of a collapsed building looking for victims and survivors following a strike by the Israeli military on Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on November 4, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas. – Thousands of civilians, both Palestinians […]

As Nigeria continues to savour its court victory against Process & Industrial Developments (P&ID) Limited in the protracted P&ID v Federal Republic of Nigeria case, the Federal Government should consciously put in place mechanism to prevent the country from being similarly ensnared in legal processes bereft of due diligence. On October 23, 2023, the Business […]

By Abdu Rafiu Print as well as electronic media are filled with opinions on the Israeli-Gaza war. Horrendous devastation in Ukraine has yielded space to news from Gaza City with unceasing palpitation among the readers. The conflict in Sudan has paled into insignificance. There is the anxiety among those who have deep feelings over when […]

Seyi  Tinubu and Father, President Bola Tinubu. Photo:Peoples Gazette That there is no specific law against the misuse of the presidential aircraft by persons other than the president does not at all excuse its frivolous use as Seyi Tinubu clearly did. An indignant commentator is quoted to say that “even if our laws are vague […]

The report recently that one Seyi Tinubu, son of sitting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, took a plane in the presidential fleet to attend a private function in Kano is sufficiently improper to be condemnable. But the deepest import of this is that it impugns the moral high ground that the president must necessarily stand upon […]

By Olusegun Adeniyi For the past several years, the joke in Abuja is that whenever Nigeria encounters dire financial straits, the late General Sani Abacha looks down on us from beyond and drops a hefty sum into the national coffers. While I disagree with a friend who insists that Nigeria may have used Abacha for […]

By Simon Kolawole Long ago, I read the story of a young boy whose mum gave two 10 kobo coins on a Sunday morning. “This 10 kobo is for offering. The other one is for sweets after service,” the mum instructed him. The boy kept the coins in his breast pocket. On his way to […]

By Abdu Rafiu Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher, (1712-1778), it was who said, “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” This profound thought borne out of knowledge which in turn was derived from experiencing, could not have been truer today than it was more than 300 years ago when he made his […]

The resolve of the National Assembly to proceed with the acquisition of luxury Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) for its members, despite public outcry, is condemnable and highly insensitive to the poor economic plight of most Nigerians, the downturn of the country’s economy and the mood of the nation. To that extent, the plan of the […]

Repentant Boko Haram fighters. Photo: Punch Reported escalation of terrorist attacks in Borno State and environs that have claimed many lives in the past few months is unfortunate and should not be taken lightly by the authorities. Reports that the development is not unconnected with the so-called repentant terrorists who were recently integrated back into […]