Category: OP-ED

One week, One trouble, this line aptly captures the pathetic and sorry state of insecurity in Nigeria, especially in the North. In the aftermath of the Zabarmari massacre, the outcry and condemnation emanating from different  quarters, one would expect  the Federal Government get a little  more proactive rather  than  the usual reactionary stand that had long characterized  their leadership style.… Read More

“Political language is designed to make lies sound truth and murder respectable, to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind” George Orwell The Orwellian thought above clearly reflect the current political development in our country particularly the very annoying statement of the minister for Justice and Attorney General of the federation on the legality of the National Assembly invitation… Read More

Dr Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe, PhD, DD. Institute of African Studies/Dept. of History & International Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, recently regaled us with stories about how the 2015 election was won and lost as well as the roles played by certain people, especially some within the political class and some clergymen. Notable in his condemnation for the loss suffered by… Read More

When the news of the death of Diego Maradona broke, I was in a friend’s office. Our initial spontaneous reaction was sorrow and regret. And then we drifted, almost as if we had rehearsed it, to the next thing: who is football’s all-time greatest? Maradona or Pele? My friend wasted no time is declaring that for him, it is and… Read More

Nigeria is an exceptionally intolerant country – religion-wise. In fact, the country is next to Iran on the religious intolerance threshold. You could get killed, threatened, hounded, harassed and victimised for going against the religious orthodoxies. The two major religions in Nigeria – Christianity and Islam — bubble with the most fanatical of followers who elect themselves ‘’defenders of God’’.… Read More

Omoyele Sowore, journalist, activist, and leader of #RevolutionNow returns to court today in Abuja. Arguably, Sowore is the most popular and easily recognized prisoner of conscience in Nigeria today. Muhammadu Buhari’s regime is a cage for Nigeria’s prisoners of conscience and epicenter of a brutal crackdown. As Nigeria boils and burns with rage and riots over Buhari’s repressive regime, Buhari… Read More

The use of raw power to settle personal scores against ones perceived enemies, is a dastardly but palpable contemporary political reality. Our own nation’s political landscape has not been devoid of this aberrant behavior. Even though, our democratic dispensation is still in its infancy, yet it could be seen as being fully replete with these clearly very unpleasant but ubiquitous… Read More

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the National Assembly lacks the power to invite President Muhammadu Buhari, to speak on security matters. This is coming a few days after the President agreed to honour the invitation of the House of Representatives to address a joint session of the National Assembly on the security challenges in the… Read More

I almost lost my job as editor of a national newspaper in this country three years ago for publishing an interview on one self-acclaimed professor Chris Imafidon, who claimed to lecture at Oxford University (Keble College), in the United Kingdom.   Imafidon was in Nigeria to deliver the 33rd convocation lecture of the University of Ilorin in October 2017.  Apparently, Unilorin… Read More

On January 22, 2015 at Chatham House, London, Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), baited the whirlwind. He said he had suggested to Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to postpone the general election scheduled for February 14 by six weeks – which is within the constitutional 90-day election window – to give more time… Read More