Category: OP-ED

The celebration, on Wednesday, March 17, 2021, by Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, caught me napping.  I stumbled on it when Channels Television abruptly broke KICC’s daily telecast and took viewers to Onikan Sports Stadium, Lagos, where Lagosians, led by Sanwo-Olu, their servant-leader, had gathered to celebrate the legend: Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, the state’s first civilian governor. Since Jakande’s… Read More

This appeal has come about because the older generation should speak out when their ancestral land is being taken over, and young people and children being slaughtered. Some background information is necessary, in order to put things in their proper context, and to appreciate the severity of the situation that necessitates this urgent appeal. It starts with 16th December 2020… Read More

As I write, Tunde Abass is just being released after 4 days Illegal detention by the Lagos Command of the Nigeria Police Force. Looking at the cameo picture with Adejobi Olumuyiwa, the Lagos police spokesperson; his orange top and trousers is stained with blood and dirt just as his face is swollen and battered. As a Revolutionary, Tunde managed a… Read More

The creative industry is affectionately referred to as the showbiz (show business) industry and for good reason mostly on account of the overwhelming image of glamour and stardom.  With Nigerian music and movies cornering large swathes of the global market (Nollywood, the local variant, is considered the 3rd globally, ranked just next to Hollywood and Bollywood and Nigerian Afrobeats is… Read More

Speaking on Arise TV Morning Show on the agitation for Oduduwa Nation, Dr. Reuben Abati among other things, said “And none of the people who are calling for secession is known, it amounts to a treasonable felony.”  In his anchor seat of Arise TV, Abati like the Old Testament Pharisee, pontificates his stupidity by equating the rights of people to… Read More

Warning against the declaration of Yoruba Nation and YoruExit from Nigeria, the Alake of Egbaland, Oba Adedotun Gbadebo said: “Nigerians, wherever we go in Nigeria, we must see ourselves as nationals of the same country, people of the same blood.” “We must work together to make Nigeria great because we must not fail. Nigeria must not fail, if Nigeria fails,… Read More

X-Ray of Femi Fani-Kayode: Sahara Reporters & Punch Investigations On His Abuse of his Domestic Workers. – Chidi Cali.  Sahara Reporters Investigated this story in 2020 and now Punch Newspapers with different batch of workers.  It is disheartening watching the agony, sexual abuse and dehumanisation recounted by the domestic workers of the former Nigerian Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode (FFK) in the… Read More

In Nigeria, almost everywhere you turn, you are likely to find a young person who owns one business or another. From Logistics, Food retail, cosmetics, event planning, interior design, fashion, style, Agriculture, tech or even as a Vendor, young people in Nigeria are trying to either start a new business or manage an existing business, despite the harsh and tough… Read More

“Great achievements are usually borne out of great sacrifice, and never the result of SELFISHNESS.”  “Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.”  “Every adversity, every failure, every heartbreak, carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”—Napoleon Hill. The mind is the engine room and battle field of life, it is where battles… Read More

When I first read Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy Of The Oppressed as an undergraduate at Temple, I never imagined that Nigeria will become a laboratory of oppression. Some fled Nigeria many years ago. Others who stayed behind nervously weighed their options until mounting danger finally forced them to leave their homes behind. Yorubas are living in a country where hunger, killing,… Read More