Opinions

Earlier this year, Yahya Jammeh, the former Gambian president who ruled the country for twenty-two years as a dictator, was accused of carrying out a series of rapes and sexual assaults while in office. The accusations were made by three…

I returned to and, recently, visited my folks at Kirikiri, part of the land of my upbringing, in my adolescent years as an Ajegunle boy. To the majority of Nigerians, Kirikiri is synonymous with the dreaded Maximum Prison.  Yet long before…

ON October 29, Governor Seyi Makinde ticked off the fifth month on the 48-month calendar of the first term of his administration.On that day, there were no drums or fanfare, at least from the side of the government. But there…

As the world over celebrates World Toilet Day on Tuesday, 19 November, Philip Thomas and Funmi AREMU speak to a cross section of Nigerians on the problem of open defecations and the effects on public health.Victor Aremu, studentLack…

I have written a few weeks back about the lamentation of the 14th Emir of Kano, Alhaji Lamido Sanusi II. However, the critical mass of Nigerians still seems to be going about their daily social activities as if nothing frightening is in the…

WE have a rare chance as a continent to send a message to the whole world: Africa is the first to eliminate Hepatitis C.This would also take the world one step closer to reach one of the targets of Goal 3 of the United Nations’…

In a country where governance performance is few and far in between, it is so easy to see those few conscientious performers who came into politics solely because they were driven by the desire to serve. It is in this context that we can…

I never paid much attention to diabetes and its related ailments until I became seriously ill in 2015. Each time I went to the hospital for treatment, one of the tests the doctors recommended for me was blood-sugar test, and each time the…

At his inauguration for a second term on May 29, 2019, Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State unveiled what he described as a “Completion Agenda”. In advanced democracies, the popular thinking is that political leaders soon become lame…

Life is a paradox, Humans mostly focus on seemingly irrelevant things by vigorously attacking the ringworm in their bodies while leaving leprosy that is ravaging the same body.For the majority of  Nigerians, life has become a hell of a…