Category: OP-ED

Before he was given the heave-ho, Okoi Obono-Obla, ex-chairman of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the recovery of Public Property (SPIP), bagged notoriety as a ”serial power abuser” and a ”carefree violator” of due process. Obono-Obla’s success is, perhaps, more in the aspect of motoring controversy and bringing attention to the public property recovery panel than in fighting corruption.… Read More

Only wailers would doubt this administration’s love for Nigerians especially the poor among them. Both President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo have shown in their words and actions that they have a special passion for the poor in Nigeria. That is probably the reason why in spite of the unprecedented suicide cases recorded in the last five years… Read More

The 2015 general elections had just ended, with Nigeria’s ‘achievement’ of an unprecedented transition from one civilian government to another. The losers were beginning to lick their wounds, while the gladiators in the winning party were busy strategising for the ways and means of cornering the juiciest portions of the spoils from the just-concluded electoral war. As the airways quaked… Read More

It was Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the musical iconoclast, multi-instrumentalist, who first used the iconic and ironic word Zombie to lampoon the military intruders who invaded our political space. Fela in his characteristic evangelistic fervor, describes the ruling soldiers as robotic, pathetic, brainless, cartoonish morons. Stretch your imagination further of Fela’s Zombies, you’ll see a horrifying, hauting figure – the living… Read More

Nigeria is witnessing a hug democratic mishap under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. This is evident in the way her citizen’s socioeconomic and fundamental rights are being violated by the government and the citizens are thrown to altered distress.  The publisher Sahara Reporters – Omoyele Sowore called for a revolution and to further buttress the context with which the… Read More

At times like this, one can’t help but go down memory lane and be thankful for some divine helps here and there; for a privilege as great as undergoing the National Youth Service Corps scheme when Nigeria was still a nation and not nations within a nation as it is today. I remember my first trip to the Federal Capital… Read More

Sowore has been actively consistent for 30 years in his quest for a better society. Flashback to Sowore’s achievement as the SUG president of Unilag was the fighting of cultism on campus, leading the student protest to help secure Abiola’s mandate in 1993 and subsequently leading Nigerian students to fight the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha, a fight that saw… Read More

In circulation all over Nigeria was a very moving quote by Howard Zinn, an American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker: “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient… Read More

Most of us who held our noses to support President Muhammadu Buhari again in the last election had hoped for true change if he was re-elected. Two months into the second tenure, while it may appear as if though Buhari is indeed incorrigible, it is definitively clear that he has forgotten why and how he became democratic president in the… Read More

Are Nigerians poorer today than they were in 2015? Yes, if we go by data and economic indicators. In June 2018, a report by the World Poverty Clock revealed that Nigeria had overtaken India as the top-tier country with a cosmic community of poor people on the planet. Also, the report evinced that every minute, six Nigerians become extremely poor. And… Read More