Category: OP-ED

Re: Femi Adesina’s ‘We Have Not Many Fathers’ And so, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says that we were lucky that the other side of the president that is frightening, fearful, and vicious was not manifested, otherwise ears would have tingled and tongues wagged about the calamities that would have befallen us lesser mortals following the #EndSARS episode. In his words,… Read More

A terrible day, a terrible experience. It was a bright peaceful morning, we converged at Akindeeko to ignite the #Endsars protests despite all forms of intimidations and brutasalitions we witnessed 2 days before this day. In company of some comrades we went to Olaiya junction in Oshogbo to assemble, gyrating while waiting for others to join.  Not up to an… Read More

After employing and sponsoring hoodlums, thugs and other bloodthirsty agents to forcefully end and disperse peaceful protests, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, current governor of Osun State, reluctantly showed up at the barricades to address protesters since all excuse to defend the brutality and victimisation earlier meted on demonstrators failed. Instead of hearing their pains and grievances; he turned the protest ground… Read More

The gradual but methodical counting and tabulation of the votes from the November 3 elections here in United States for the presidency, instantly offered three things.  The first as digital civic education.  The second came as another opportunity to millions of Americans and people of the world to take in the contrasting personalities of the Republican and the Democrat seeking… Read More

Mr. Joseph Nwaegbu/Pathfind Attorneys/MNBI and their shadowy minders and paymasters obviously think that the ICC is a forum for frivolities, especially of the type we have gotten accustomed to in Nigeria… They will sooner or later know that the ICC is not such a place. I welcome them to pursue their petition. I move around the world and I have… Read More

Prior to the controversial presidential poll of last November 3 this year in the United States of America one of the dramatic events that stunned not a few folks came from Nigeria, my beloved homeland. Some members of the so-called Living Christ Mission, based in Onitsha, Anambra State and led by its founder and leader, Pastor Daddy Hezekiah, had undertaken… Read More

Bigotry. We are big on it. To inflame passions and to smoke out the most reticent of Nigerians, flagellate the tempers of religion and ethnicity. Yes, then you will see the beast behind the mask. The mute compels speech and even the Nigerian PhD holder brawls when matters circle around his religion and ethnicity. Critical thinking is embargoed and the… Read More

The events around the #EndSARS protest have shown that the struggle of Nigerians for democracy has not ended. Under a democratic government, some rights and liberties are taken for granted. Under a democracy, principles such as ‘freedom of association’, ‘freedom of expression’, ‘right of protest’, and ‘freedom of the press’ are markers an non-negotiable. The #EndSARS protest has revealed how… Read More

I have seen (as attached) a certain document on social media concerning a criminal complaint before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Abuja against certain 50 persons for their alleged roles in the #EndSARS protests. The document shows that the criminal complaint was filed by a certain Mr. Kenechukwu Okeke against Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Aisha Yesufu, Davido, Tuface, Kanu, and 45… Read More

PRESENTATION AT A SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY NILDS ON 10TH NOVEMBER, 2020 INTRODUCTION It has been recognized all over the world that democracy is the best form of government. Democracy is so important in the world today that it has become the driving force of development making many scholars to draw a nexus between  democracy and development. Although different people put… Read More