Category: OP-ED

It’s wrong for a foreign media organization to poke nose into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. By  Nigeria’s unwritten law, exclusively known to our leaders, the life and death of Nigerian citizens absolutely belong to government. And government invariably can determine when, where and how citizens will die or “undie”. With its so-called exposure of Lekki massacre, CNN… Read More

The sad events of November 20, 2020 have come and gone. The slain and the wounded #ENDSARS Protesters and there families are left to bear the burden of loss of their wounded and dead young ones. The real question is “What really happened?” This question continues to beg for correct answers. In this confusion and information contusion that followed, the… Read More

CNN, though in Nigeria, is an international media organisation in the United States of America which operates via cable television on DSTV network and other platforms. The operations of CNN on world press coverage is not regulated by the National Broadcasting Commission. NBC or the Minister of Information has no such powers to sanction an organisation that is not under… Read More

Nigeria was built on a deceitful foundation, and all things woven around that deceit have now crumbled. Nigerians have been battling with sorrows and tears. We have not succeeded in attaining a peaceful moment as a people under a democratic dispensation. Like all dictators, bloodshed and bullet-firing are the only economic response that the Buhari regime can offer as a… Read More

The saying that a prophet is not appreciated at home may well be referring to former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings, who died last Thursday from COVID-19 related complications, three weeks after his mother was buried. Ghana is in seven days of mourning, but Nigeria is crying more than the bereaved. Among Nigeria’s political elite, there has been a “condolence contest.”… Read More

Four days ago, Manuel Merino, Peru’s Interim President, resigned a day after two people were killed during protests against his government. The two died as a result of a police crackdown on protesters.  Merino’s resignation came a few days after taking over from President Martín Vizcarra. Unlike Nigeria’s #ENDSARS protesters that were just sitting down singing the national anthem and… Read More

On 18 November 2010, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a preliminary examination into the situation in Nigeria. It is a decade on now, yet the Prosecutor is yet to make a decision on whether to proceed with investigating and prosecuting perpetrators of crimes committed in the northeast by both sides to the conflict: Boko Haram and… Read More

Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched here not for righteous ends but for some predetermined recidivist motives. In particular, the so-called ‘’corruption probes’’ are themselves felonious panels set up to exact vengeance, broker deals or cause distraction from national discontent. Beelzebub cannot cast out demons. I… Read More

If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven beyond doubt, it is how humanity depends on science for its survival. Every confounding development that has been thrown up by nature or biology since the days of the prehistoric man has been resolved, and humanity has advanced on the back of scientific discoveries, from the argument by Galileo, who… Read More

My summary of the outcome of the United States election was that the promoters of nationalism, isolationism, xenophobia, conspiracy theories, lies, indecency, hatred, division were rejected. We saved science; we saved democracy; we saved the world, and we saved Christianity too. One of the things that became clear to me after Joe Biden won the United States presidential election was… Read More