Category: OP-ED

In 2018, during our struggle against evictions of this manner, the popular and hypocritical propaganda of the university was that we were against renovation exercise to be carried out by them as we chose to remain in the hostels. Renovations could be done systematically with students’ understanding, only when there is a cordial discussion with them. That would never happen… Read More

I am constrained to pen this open letter owing to the cloud of silence exuding from your political party. Citizen Agba Jalingo was arrested in a gestapo fashion on August 22, 2019 on the instigation of Governor Benedict Ayade, over an article through which Jalingo opined that the governor approved and diverted the sum of N500m meant for a microfinance… Read More

Permit me to indulge in this end-of-the-year humbug. I have read some prophecies for the year 2020 by men who arrogate to themselves the title ‘’man of God’’.  Well, since I am not born of Satan, I believe I am a craft of that supreme intelligent being.  But let me say upfront, the ‘’spirit’’ which dwells in me is not… Read More

Shows were top on our Yuletide list and Burna Boy’s Christmas day performance was not originally part of it. However, my wife and daughters were keen. Majority rules in our house and I caved in. I made arrangements for six tickets, including one for my driver, who was just as ardent about the show. In the past, I normally would… Read More

Once a dictator, as a military Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari sought democratic power, preaching change; and we embraced him, believing that nothing could be worse than the regime of Goodluck Jonathan. But we are finding out the hard way: the obvious change the Nigerian people have seen since Buhari came back to power is a change to a “next… Read More

Journeying from Environmental Microbiology to a Master’s in Business Administration and settling onto the knowledge platform of Law, factually, Ben Ayade, a professor, former senator and current governor of Cross Rivers State, has done quite well for himself in this ‘fleeting’ life of impermanent stages and phases. However, when one farts where fragrance has just been diffused in the air,… Read More

Nigerians look around! Can you see the multitude of the poor amid the care and struggle of daily life? Can you see them in the jar of the noisy streets and amid the squalor where want hides? Can you see the wrong that produces inequality? Can you see poverty in the midst of abundance that tortures men with want or… Read More

I never thought President Muhammadu Buhari cared about posterity or how he would be evaluated when he leaves office because his actions now betray any reflection on the future. I also never thought he was a “philosopher president’’ who ponders and asks” “why’’; again, because his actions have been that of a sciolist. So, my perturbation here is provoked by… Read More