Opinion

With the current syllabus being used in our secondary schools, it is very possible for a pupil to finish in our secondary schools without ever being taught biology or even health science. It is that bad! At least, pupils should have a basic understanding of hygiene. It appears the powers that be think otherwise. I…

Saying Nigeria had been good sometime ago could be a surprise to the youth of these days. Then, the factories at Ikeja, Apapa, Iganmu, Ota, Ikeja, Kano, Kaduna, Aba, to mention a few were in full operation. In agriculture, Nigeria was able to feed herself and even export. Those were the days of the groundnut…

So, we have helped the rich to celebrate their festival. I used the word “helped” advisedly because what benefit is there for a prisoner to be checking what time it is? Now, we all must go back to live our normal lives after the festivities. We have to wake up from fakery and go back…

I hear Twitter says it neither knows Buhari nor the country he governs! In the Murtala/Obasanjo days, everybody that mattered knew Nigeria. In fact, if Nigeria coughed, the whole world would shiver. Those were the finest days of Nigeria’s foreign policy. The USA, UK, etc were all ‘begging’ to be in Nigeria’s good books. But…

Some are of the belief that since African governments generally oppress the average African, we shouldn’t expect Blacks to be better treated the world over. I see that argument as pedestrian. My stand is two wrongs can’t ever make a right. By the way, although Africa remains the root of the Blackman, many of them…

When I was a kid a few years ago, people who performed the pilgrimage to Mecca were the elderly. However, despite the so-called economic problems Nigeria is currently facing, relatively young Nigerians were expected to pay approximately 8.7 million Nigerian naira, as announced by the Lagos State Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board on January 21, 2025….