Category: OP-ED

Yusuf Gagdi, a member of the House of Representatives, has said the Department of State Services did not inform the National Assembly of the past extremist views of the embattled Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, during his ministerial screening in 2019. Gagdi, who represents Pankshin, Kanke and Kanam Federal Constituency in Plateau State at the House, spoke… Read More

Many Africans do tend to assess situations and events through emotions, so, often when “the Berlin Conference of 1884” gets mentioned – as will be done, annoyance and anger would come up and shut out some lessons that could have been learned, and that the community could even benefit from today. So, before the emotions that would prevent the Reader… Read More

Nigeria has already broken up! Nigeria is only together in body; its soul has been shared along ethnic lines. Its spirit has flown away. All well-meaning Nigerians were apprehensive about the state of the country prior to the general elections in 2015, because of two uncertainties. And, when I refer to well-meaning Nigerians, political leaders; who are the drivers steering… Read More

Abukakar Atiku has summed up the nation’s feeling – this most recent savagery against our youth is  heartbreaking.  More than the heart is broken however, more than millions of individual hearts that still lay claim to bonds in a common humanity. The already over-stretched sinews of moral restraint have been snapped off the casing of nation being, and nothing is… Read More

Sheikh Isa Ali Pantami holds a strategic position in the Muhammadu Buhari presidency. He is the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. He is young at 48 and brilliant given his impressive academic pedigree. Though he is not a member of the Aso Rock cabal he occupies an ultra-sensitive ministerial position that directly affects daily lives of Nigerians for good… Read More

I once witnessed a macabre execution – early 2000s. It was a quotidian day in Onitsha – except for a sudden alarm jarring everyone grinding away in the day’s humdrum. Thief! Thief! Swiftly, commuters, traders and idlers became vigilantes. They encircled a young man and bludgeoned him until he was lifeless. No questions asked. No trial. No justice – but… Read More

We have been screaming for years now that political leaders in Igboland must listen to our people.  It all fell on dead ears.  It’s now high noon for us all. We are witnesses to how they ganged up and invited the military to mauled down our people in 2017, they code named it Python dance.  We are yet to account… Read More

As the leader goes so goes the nation. The coming of dictator General Muhammadu Buhari brings along ancient evils. Under a bad president things go sour. The heart and skill of a president will always tremendously affect life of the people under his direction.  Good president draws loyalty from the people. Bad president draws rebellion from the people. Good president… Read More

The last time I was in Chad was in 2014. In its capital, N’Djamena, I couldn’t resist the feeling that I was in a big rural village. Many of the side streets I went, were either un-tarred or in need of some repair and in some cases, water logged. Desperation was written on many faces as poverty played widely popular… Read More

Let’s agree for once that it’s the north destroying us and the “northerners” will always protect themselves, no matter what. Riding on that fact, the rulers from the South should have used the Pantami campaign to score a point among their people. They should have unequivocally spoken against the terrorist hegemony.  But the turn of events on #PantamiGate has shown… Read More