Category: OP-ED

The government did not extend the lockdown by two weeks to punish us. But the unintended consequence of the extension for a poor country such as ours will be just that: hardship beyond description, misery by default.   Yet, that might not even be the worst thing. It appears that on top of the hardship, a good number of people would also… Read More

It’s amazing how some people are responding to the challenges posed by this COVID-19 pandemic. A university in Japan just developed some robots to represent its graduating students at their convocation ceremony. This was done to beat the social distancing measures brought about by the pandemic. A team of robots with Ipads for faces would be standing in for students… Read More

In chess game, a fork is a strategy whereby a single piece makes two direct attacks on opponents’ pieces simultaneously. It’s also called a double attack. This is one of the most effective ways to capture opponent’s material because it becomes difficult to save pieces that are under attack. The real master of fork is the knight. The knight’s ability… Read More

Coronavirus pandemic is spreading like wildfire across countries of the world. The pandemic has brought to the fore the need to re-examine police response in COVID-19 affected countries and to possibly shape police agenda for pandemic policing. While, it is no longer news that the virus is fully in Nigeria since the index case was recorded on the 24th of… Read More

Okay, let me deadpan and say 2019 was a remarkable year for me, and particularly for my health. I am among the unfortunate percentile that suffers from chronic heart disease (since I have been on medication for close to 20 years). In early March 2019, the chest pains became regular and increasingly severe after any strenuous activity or a spell… Read More

We love staring at present we stabbed in the past and blinking into future we have no plan for.  We sow wind but do not want to reap whirlwind. We are a people that engages effect by putting the law of causality in abeyance. To the average Nigerian rulers and their lackeys on dinner table, they cannot understand why trust… Read More

Whenever man is confronted with a terrifying aspect of the world in which he lives, his natural instinct is to seek to understand the new phenomenon and bend it to his will. Pre-historic man opted for ritual as a means of mollifying and dominating his environment, but man soon moved from the age of rituals to the age of science,… Read More

The conundrum: Do we sustain the lockdown to contain Coronavirus and risk the upsurge of insecurity and citizens’ unrest or do we lift the restrictions and find other means of controlling the spread of COVID-19? For a country like Nigeria with complexities and depreciable socio-economic indices, imposing restrictions on movement for an extended period of time — asphyxiating the economy… Read More

Oppressors gyrate to see the oppressed people bow and applaud them, but the current plague devastates their whole system since it affects them and their cronies. A hopeless man has nothing to rely on; he will utilise his last energy wisely for him to survive. Also, a neglected pregnant woman only has little hope with the local midwife who might… Read More

Many Nigerians had foreseen that this would happen. This being the robbery attacks that have almost become commonplace in the South-Western part of the country especially in states like Ogun, Lagos, and Oyo. Many who had thought that any theft cases or robbery incidents would manifest only by household food items being forcefully carted away since the federal government did… Read More