Opinions

I salute the courage of governments around the globe; the Federal Government of Nigeria and the Delta State government for their efforts in the eradication of Covid-19. The whole of humankind could have been wiped out. Nations could have…

SINCE the first time I saw a Twitter user apply the term, ‘intellectual prudence’, to describe one of the actions of the Oyo State governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, the phrase stuck with me and I immediately resolved to further explore the…

THE 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (as amended) in Chapter-Two provides Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles of State Policy which contain litany of socio-economic rights. They include objectives on…

WE live in a world where as a preventive measure, people are ceaselessly taught not to get raped instead of the don’t rape teaching and message. We tell women and girls what kinds of dress not to wear in order not to be ‘provocative’, we…

FOR those of us who knew Wale (Babalakin) at school – Government College Ibadan(GCI), the positive outcome, his life is playing out is not unexpected, an accident or a coincidence! This is because everything has been ordained before the…

In the last three years and seven months, the people of Edo State have been enthralled by the re-enactment of people-powered governance led by the citizens, with Governor Godwin Obaseki on the front seat, designing and executing…

In the early 2000s while as a young man I lived at Ikoyi, Lagos with my mentor, Mr J.M. Ajekigbe, the then Managing Director of First Bank Nigeria Plc, we usually on Sundays play host to many high-profile personalities. While the big men…

THE recent riots in the United States brought about by the killing of George Lloyd and Rayshard Brooks has brought to the fore the intractable problem of race relations in that country. Thanks to the social media, the entire world in recent…

It is quite uncanny that the Oxford dictionary defines prejudice as a ‘‘preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience,’’ with a legal interpretation that reads ‘‘harm or injury that results or may result from some…

WILL the world and its economy return to normal after the coronavirus pandemic? The answer to the above question will probably be in the negative. Already, the term, “the new normal”, which has gained global currency suggests that the…