Category: OP-ED

Like an angry tornado, sex for grades is effacing life away from Nigerian universities. Every year, stories abound of how university professors and lecturers seduce and blackmail students. We all hear about it but it’s almost never proven. The malfeasance buried in silence is denying victims to speak up. A lot of female students are being abused but silence has… Read More

I have always assumed that ‘’the cabal’’ or the kitchen cabinet in any administration exists at the pleasure of the president or the leadership; hence members of this clique owe him and everything that comes with him, unsoiled loyalty.  My assumption was underpinned by some classical examples. In 2010, the kitchen cabinet was Turai Yar’Adua’s bulwark when the late President… Read More

Against the background of the recent sting reportage of sexual harassment in Nigerian universities, with special focus on the University of Lagos, I am surprised that many Nigerians are feigning ignorance of the ravaging scourge of sex-for-mark practice which infests our tertiary institutions. There was nothing new or too salacious about the BBC report. There was nothing more fundamental revealed… Read More

One man can induce rippling change in a system. One man can stop illegal detention, arrests, and govern the impulse to clamp down on free speech and citizens’ rights. One man can rebuild relationships and cause harmony to exist among disparate peoples. That man is the president; if only he is willing. In Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, the young, charismatic prime… Read More

Great footage is the key to any good documentary. It is impossible to make historical films without it. Wole Soyinka’s article, “The Crimes of Buhari”, published before the 2015 presidential elections, is a gold mine of documentary footage of the sins of Buhari why he’s not a good president. The character analysis of Buhari in his days as head of… Read More

At the core of the Next Level Agenda that characterized the manifestoof President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term was the policy to lift 100million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years. The thrust of this isthe care of victims of the vast humanitarian crises that Nigeria hasbeen confronted with. It goes without saying that there’s no shortage of challenges ahead:For well… Read More

The flatulent size of the National Assembly accents the orthodoxies and paradoxes of Nigeria. Nigeria’s lawmakers are some of the highest paid in the world, in a country where about 100 million people live on less than one United States dollar per day, and where citizens are expected to be stoic and exist in deficit while their representatives in parliament… Read More

It is so interesting the way the BBC documentary on sex for marks in some African universities has turned many Nigerians into anti-sexual harassment campaigners of some sorts. Suddenly, almost everybody had something to say, either to condemn or commend those behind the “exposé”.It is important to clarify from the outset that sexual harassment either in school or anywhere is wrong and… Read More

In the United States, the Nigerian embassies in Atlanta and Washington DC have mysteriously run out of e-passport booklets. Thus, Nigerians coming home for 2019 Christmas are given appointment dates in March 2020 for e-passports in New York. This is technically telling thousands of Nigerians in the US that we love you but sorry, you are not going home for… Read More

The continued spate of degeneration in academic administration in the form of widespread infractions and impunities by management and governing councils in many universities across Nigeria is indeed disturbing and precarious for the country’s university system specifically, and societal progress in general. In many universities, the administrators (Vice Chancellors in particular) repeatedly ignore and violate statutory university laws and regulations… Read More