Opinion

“A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”. – William Shakespeare. This describes a campaign of calumny in the form of an old article in the 12th July, 2008, issue of The Sun newspaper making the rounds on…

Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections…

In the 1960s, when Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari was an A Level student at the King’s College, Lagos, the Yoruba students always had a good laugh anytime his…

*Trump’s America is Facing Unparalleled Economic Disaster By Umair Haque See that chart above? That’s the American economy, dying. It shows retail sales across the…

The social media is an exciting space, always buzzing with life. One moment, guys are swearing at one another, the next instant they are making peace amid unusual comradely. That is the…

Pay television company, Multichoice Nigeria, has dismissed reports that it is set to increase subscription rates for its DStv and GOtv packages from 1 June. The company…

Whatever public reaction Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari expected of his appointment as President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief Of Staff (COS), he probably didn’t imagine the…

Let me start by giving due credit for this headline, which is not original to me. I lifted it from the 1983 song by reggae star, Peter Tosh, in the album titled Mama Africa. The song is Glass House, and it goes thus: “If…

According to the Merriam Webster online dictionary, elites are groups of persons who by virtue of position or education exercise much power or influence. They are usually regarded as…

In a recent article in The Atlantic also widely used elsewhere, American journalist, Anne Applebaum, described the pathetic meltdown of US President Donald Trump,…

ON Sunday, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike demolished two hotels in Port Harcourt for allegedly flouting his executive order on lockdown. The state like many others is on a…

Idi Amin Dada was the Ugandan military officer who served as the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. During his reign as the President, he was ruthless, merciless, in fact, he was…

IN the Rivers front, COVID-19 appears to have birthed a severe strain of another gubernatorial virus.  So, it’s politic to ask: what ails Rivers Governor, Nyesom Wike?  This question…

If the gods want to punish a people, they either   invoke plagues on the land or deploy agents of slaughter as leaders. The gods are not happy with Rivers state, obviously, hence the…

Your Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, Vice-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, you would recall that when the coronavirus pandemic began to take its toll on the…

We need to impose on ourselves the freedom of conscience in the pursuit of our daily bread. Remember, for our sword, we should wield our sanitizer …! On this one, we are on our own HONESTLY, judging by everything going on…

The Boko Haram crisis in North-East Nigeria means different things to different people. While to some, it is a war against Nigeria, few others perceive it as propagation of their ideals. For another category, however, it is just a business…

As if the coronavirus pandemic that has virtually turned the world upside down with the grisly daily bulletin of deaths and more deaths and misery and…

BY AISHA ABBA-KYARI On 17th April, 2020, my world came crashing down and my heart shattered into a billion pieces. Upon receiving the news of my father’s passing, I immediately felt the most excruciating pain – a pain I would not…

Against the backdrop of the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic , All Progressives Congress(APC) stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, pushes for low interest rates and the need for the Central Bank of Nigeria to boost the economy Time to …

Ralph Fiennes is one of the most fearless individuals on Earth, having embarked on incredibly dangerous expeditions. But then, even Fiennes has his fears. He is…

My brother, Femi Adesina, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, once observed that those who believe do not need further explanation,…

“In spite of our age difference, he encouraged me to call him by his first name Abba, but I always preferred Mallam Abba. Forget what anyone might tell you, Mallam Abba was a…

If there is any lesson we have learnt from the past five weeks, it is how difficult it is to enforce a meaningful lockdown or social distancing in Nigeria. All over the country,…