Opinion Corner

The Sub-Saharan Africa (Where Nigeria belongs) is the area with the most uneducated children of primary school age, numbering over 30million, out of which about 12 million girls are at risk of never receiving an education. By Charles Iyare Children are leaders of tomorrow, and as it were, education is the key to unlock the potential of every child in …

Why is the second goal of the Millennium Development Goals, still not achievable in this country that talks about achieving universal primary education and which targets ensuring that all boys and girls complete a full course of primary education? Although Nigeria has made little progress based on net enrollment where six out of every ten eligible children are now in …

According to a demographic health survey, 2013, Nigeria accounts for 13% of the global maternal death rates with an estimated 36,000 women dying in pregnancy or at child birth each year. At least 5,500 of these deaths occur among teenage mothers. 20% of child deaths in sub-Saharan Africa occur in Nigeria. About half of the world’s under-five deaths occur in …

A report titled “Swiss Traders’ Opaque Deals in Nigeria”, published by Berne Declaration, BD, a Switzerland-based non-governmental advocacy group in 2013, noted that some Swiss traders are allocated by the NNPC a major proportion of the crude oil that the four refineries in the country do not manage to process. The BD identified problematic aspects in the way in which …

Nigeria is in desperate need of a few good men and women to rebuild a broken and severely hemorrhaging nation! This incoming administration should have the ability to inspire confidence in its citizens as they have suffered way too long under the weight of greedy and self-centered leadership. Buhari must mobilize resources to accomplish a goal that transcends individual interests …

The United States and Europe today have no commitment to the development of nations. It is not an overstatement to say that governments in the west are utterly opposed to building up the physical economic capacity of developing nations, much less their own, due to their slavish, obsequious bowing at the altar of Wall Street and the City of London …

Women and girls are typically trafficked into the commercial sex industry, i.e. prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation. Victims are sometimes taken away from home for false assumptions that the person is a witch or wizard. They are often tortured, beaten, caged or imprisoned as means of punishment. By Charity Okpolokpo There are these four stickers produced by Ajegunle …

Owners of commercial buses plying different routes in the city, pay different amounts of money to touts as taxes every day. Drivers pay for up to 4 or 5 tickets a day or even more. The taxes are collected by force from them if they refuse to pay, following a fight that is intentionally provoked by the touts to enforce …

We believe that a Truth and Reconciliation Commission akin to those that have been set up since 1973 should examine the sixteen years of the PDP as a democratically elected government. Even though the objective is not to seek retribution for these many cases of impunity, graft and theft of public funds, it would be a platform to minimize the …

By JIDE OJO. Welcome to the new Nigeria! Sequel to the general elections held on March 28 and April 11, 2015 in the country, power has finally changed hands from one political party to another at the centre as well as in many states. The routing of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party by the main opposition party, the All Progressives …