Category: OP-ED

Omoyele Sowore’s attempted murder yesterday at the Unity Fountain, Abuja ordered by General Muhammadu Buhari brings to the fore how we will remember the blood thirsty dictator. Nigeria is at war. The war began 2015 when General Buhari became president. But we have the impression that nothing is happening around us. Do you consider the reign of terror unleashed by… Read More

The cold-blooded murder of Hon. Ahmed Gulak, former Speaker of the Adamawa House of Assembly, former Special Adviser on Political Affairs to President Goodluck Jonathan, former national co-ordinator of the Goodluck Support Group (GSG) and former Governorship aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) is yet another tragic indication of the crisis of insecurity that Nigeria faces.… Read More

For close to two months now, courts all over the country are under locks and keys. On April 6, 2021 judicial workers under the aegis of Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) embarked on an indefinite nationwide strike to push for the implementation of financial autonomy for the judiciary. It is the Union’s position that the failure of the authorities… Read More

For the upteenth time, the Nigerian ruling class has launched another deadly attack on Omoyele Sowore, the National Chairman of the African Action Congress (AAC) and leader of the TakeItBack Movement (TIB.) This time, it’s at Unity Fountain and it’s yet again the same SARS Squad that made the last attempt on Sowore and other comrades’ lives during the January… Read More

It has been 28 years since the last coup d’état in Nigeria. The coup ushered in the late Sani Abacha, arguably the most brutal Big Brother in Nigeria’s torturous past with military dictators. The current Fourth Republic has thus far been untainted by military coups – the singular bane which truncated the previous triplets of democratic republics after Independence. Nigeria… Read More

Ahmed Gulak, former President Goodluck Jonathan’s side was murdered Sunday in Owerri, Imo State by unknown assassins. General Muhammadu Buhari was swift to condemn the senseless killing of Gulak. In a statement issued by the president’s spokesman Garba Shehu, the president said: “I’m repulsed by such premeditated murder of Gulak by evil people who are determined to undermine the peace,… Read More

Before you call me names, read and understand what I have to say.  Yesterday I listened to a recording of Nnamdi Kanu spitting out orders regarding the May 30, 2021, observation of Biafra Heroes lost in the various struggles with the Nigeria State.  There was something very sinister, illegal, and wrong with Kanu ordering schools to be shut down, airports… Read More

At a time when evil spars against good, we must choose a side. We either opt to be a part of darkness or take a place in the phalanx of virtuous knights. Staying taciturn while evil course through the land like molten magma from a volcano does not absolve anyone of complicity. All who keep silent in the face of… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari recently appointed a new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) following the fatal Beechcraft King Air 350i plane crash in Kaduna that killed Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru who until his tragic demise occupied that post. Major-General Farouk Yahaya was announced as the replacement for the ‘killed’ Gen. Attahiru, the circumstances of whose death are still a subject of… Read More