Category: OP-ED

Last week, exactly a year before another round of gubernatorial contest in the ‘Heart Beat of the Nation’, it’s shocking the entire Edo landscape boils with political tensions like Papua New Guinea jungle bristling with head hunters and primitive blood-curling human vampires. This is the time the governor should have been reeling out all his achievements, three years down the… Read More

The interpretation of maladies churn out daily by Department of State Services why Omoyele Sowore was not released despite two separate court orders by two separate judges makes DSS an extension of President Muhammadu Buhari’s despotic and toxic regime. The continued detention of Sowore brings into the fore the monumental breakdown of rule of law initiated and supervised by the… Read More

The 2007 general election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission under the supervision of Maurice Iwu is perhaps one of the most fraudulent in Nigeria’s electoral history. Human Rights Watch said this about that election: “Instead of guaranteeing citizens’ basic right to vote freely, Nigerian Government and electoral officials actively colluded in the fraud and violence that marred the… Read More

Indigenes of Northern Cross River Senatorial District have urged the state’s House of Assembly not to allow a vacuum in leadership by ensuring the screening of Tanko Ashang as commissioner-nominee. The residents expressed concerns over the delay in the screening of Ashang, a lawyer, who is among three nominees named by Governor Ben Ayade recently. According to the people, any… Read More

The world does not listen to the good guys. The good guys are too gentle. Most good guys do not understand that the “kingdom of God” suffereth violence and that the violent taketh it by force. You see the bad guys? They have no time for peace talks. If there is going to be a peace talk, there must first… Read More

The current generation of Nigerians is obviously progressing in the path threaded by our parents and the generation before us. That path led us to where we are today – i.e., penury, high level of illiterate citizens, religiosity without integrity and humanity, the highest level of corruption, a lawless country, and a teaming population of docile, uneducated youths. Today in… Read More

Time and again, there are desperate calls not just by veterans but also by younger and discriminating practitioners about the compelling need to rescue journalism practice in Nigeria from obvious dereliction, continuous degenerative state of violation and steady slide into disrepute. If these calls are being heeded and efforts are indeed being made by stakeholders to arrest this worrying drift,… Read More

Nigeria’s Senate is one of fools, blockheads, Ignoramuses, and idiots. Yes, of course I know this description of Nigerian Senate by a Nigerian is offensive to some, maybe more than some people. Nonetheless, it is true. The Senate is made up of callous, indifferent, stupid fools, who keep silent in the face of tyranny while Nigerians are dying every day.… Read More

The SSS issued a statement on Wednesday claiming that those, who came forward to collect our clients – Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare (defendants), are not qualified and that it will only release Sowore to his sureties after verification of the sureties. This is the height of impunity and lawlessness and this is how full-blown dictatorship evolves over time. The… Read More

This is my experience with the Ethiopian Airlines. I have flown this airline twice now. I flew them in May 2019 from Prague, Czech Republic, to Lagos and back to Prague, and also in August. My first experience with them wasn’t a good one. Really horrible hostesses and poor service. But my second experience flying with them was the worst.… Read More