Category: OP-ED

The Church was packed full. It was a gathering of eminent Nigerians to remember. But there probably more soldiers than dignitaries and well wishers who came to wish Papa Adekunle Ajasin final bye. The men in green were in the Owo Church to “guard” then No 2 in the country: gen. Oladipo Diya who came to stand in for his… Read More

Section 17 (3) (d) of the constitution has imposed a duty of the state to ensure  that “there are adequate medical and health facilities for all persons”.But the section is not justiciable like other provisions of the Fundamental Objectives and Directive Principles State Policy enshrined in Chapter II thereof. Hence, successive governments have failed to provide medical care  for the… Read More

There is a natural mystic blowing through the air If you listen carefully now, you’ll hear This could be the first trumpet, might as well be the last Many more will have to suffer; many more will have to die Don’t ask me why Things are not the way they used to be… One and all, we have to face… Read More

As expected, the Vice Chancellor’s response on the barrage of lies that Babalakin tried to peddle about the suspension of the 51st convocation of the university, elicited anger and rage from a faceless and dishonest ‘Concerned Stakeholders’ and a group of delinquent non-academic staff making scrupulous releases requesting for the Vice Chancellor to proceed on leave, because, for them Babalakin… Read More

Re: Babalakin obsession with…….. My attention has been drawn to a sponsored treatise by an unknown Alabi Azeez of a phantom online magazine codenamed Unilag Vanguard. The decision of the writer to launder the image of his paymaster is not of interest to me. However, he goofed big time when he chose me as an object of vilification and insults.… Read More

Has the outbreak of the coronavirus marked an end to faith healing practices in Nigeria, Africa and the world? This question has become necessary because traditional, Christian and Islamic faith healing claims have been rampant. And they include claims of healing persons who are suffering from all sorts of illness, the blind, lame or those with HIV/AIDS. Faith healing is… Read More

Does Nigeria possess the relevant forensic expertise to deduce the size of the explosive that devastated Abule Ado? I am referring here not to the trigger which could jolly well be a match stick, box of matches, a cigarette, a 12.5 or even a 50kg cylinder of LPG. If could also be a 2-ton industrial LPG storage.  Let’s leave the… Read More

“Federal Government and Private Institutions should embark on workforce innovative platform” Coronavirus is pandemic, it’s not under control. No one can determine the timeline, the virus do. So, nations are now conditioned to redirect their course, program, system, constitutions, fundamental policies etc.  We need all hands on deck for this new way of life/living. It will cause more havoc if… Read More

One of the first definitive steps taken by General Ibrahim Babangida on displacing General Muhammadu Buhari in a “palace coup” and coming to power in Nigeria in August 1985 was to set up, four months later, a 17-member committee (two women and 15 men) to organise, conduct, collate and then report on a general national political debate. He called the… Read More

I am no expert at pandemic disease and global health crisis but the responses of African leaders and Nigerian leaders to be specific to the global health crisis of Covid-19 has generated a lot of mixed reactions in my mind. Should I be happy that finally this pandemic is generating the right responses in “our so-called leaders” about the dire and… Read More