Category: OP-ED

After years of outcries and calls for the notorious Special Anti-robbery Squad (SARS) to be scrapped, with the rogue outfit purportedly shut down for the fourth time this year, a final showdown weeks ago brought matters to ahead leading to the fatalities of scores with the murder of unarmed, organised, civil protesters at the Lekki tollgate on 20 October 2020.… Read More

The tenure of the 8th substantive Vice Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Olanrewaju Adigun Fagbohun, will end on 11th January, 2021. However, there are a number of Professors who have been shortlisted for interview, which is scheduled to take place on Monday 21st December, 2020. Among the five already shortlisted candidates, there are clear two frontrunners, Professor Ibiyemi… Read More

Security is everybody’s business. It is a flawed assumption that issues of security must remain strictly within the orbit of agencies with the lawed responsibility. Even security agencies cannot function without citizens’ alliance and community help. Simply, they cannot operate in vacancy of citizens’ collaboration and the support of stakeholders and other institutions – both formal and informal. The most… Read More

The interest in Kaduna state’s security is high because it is vital to the country’s security stability. There is a sigh of relief as the abducted boys from Kankara were released, and state Governors must take further security measures are taken to mitigate any potential threat. As the chief security officers of their states, albeit, without aberration, Governors are expected… Read More

Dictators use lies to legitimize and legalize  tyranny and terror of authoritarian rule. General Muhammadu Buhari is no exception. Buhari lied he would create two million jobs every two years. He lied he would build two million public housing units every two years.  He lied Boko Haram would be history six months after he assumed office. He lied N1 would… Read More

Ignore the show of national disgrace and glorification of debasement on the entire events before and after  surrounding the kidnap and the whole shenanigans of negotiation and so-called rescue of the KANKARA school boys. Apart from the degenerate celebration of a compromised and conquered state displaced by the Katsina state government and the presidency, the kidnap of over 333 students… Read More

With the highest sense of responsibility I am not sure Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari still has a reason to hold on to his office and I say this not just because we are in a time of crisis occasioned by insecurity but because he has demonstrated over again that he does not have answer to the many intractable problems facing… Read More

On May 22nd 2019, President Muhammadu Buhari set up a Presidential Task Force Team on Apapa gridlock, with the Vice President Professor Yemi Osinbajo as the chairman and Comrade Kayode Opeifa to serve as the vice chairman.  The objective of its establishment is to return normalcy to Apapa because of the incessant gridlock that is crippling the area, enforce discipline,… Read More

In a rare admission of incompetence, Nigeria’s Education Minister, Mallam Adamu Adamu, a few days ago gave a damning report on the quality of graduates produced by the country’s higher institutions. According to the minister, many of these graduates can neither read nor write.   The minister spoke in Yola, the Adamawa State capital, during the inauguration of some completed school… Read More