Category: OP-ED

It is sad but true that those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it. Like a broken record, we constantly revisit the economic and social quagmire in which the majority of our citizens are trapped. Nonetheless, repetition doesn’t have to be redundant if the motive behind it is to underscore something of great importance. The long-standing… Read More

The possible breakup of Nigeria brings on the bone-shaking shivers doctors call rigors. Many writers have detailed how Nigeria is bursting at the seams with ethno-religious, political and economic problems waiting to explode. However, the apostles of one Nigeria have repeatedly denied or dismissed the notion and tried to nudge us out of that zone. By definition, a failed state… Read More

Forty-eight billion naira! That’s a heck of a lot of money! That’s how much Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State is worth.  That’s novel.  The public declaration is unheard of. It is rare in our state; nay in our country, to have our depraved politicians declare publicly how much they are really worth. It is indeed un-Yoruba to have everybody… Read More

A foreigner could have wondered what was going on as men and women lined up on the corridor of Ikorodu road, Ojota Lagos, waving at speeding vehicles to slow down.  They stood like people on a marathon set, waving, until a driver on the first lane played the Good Samaritan and slowed down and they raced onto the road not… Read More

Calls for the rebirth of the defunct Republic of Biafra have been increasingly heard on the streets of Nigeria in recent times. Following the reunification of Nigeria and Biafra in 1970, the world looked forward to a new Nigeria without the ethnic-tinged political injustices that had alienated one of the most important ethnicities in Nigeria – the Igbos and their… Read More

Atiku Abubakar is in the tribunals! Why should this be a song? He and his supporters, after receiving heavy trouncing at the last presidential election, turned going to a tribunal to a song, a dance; indeed a major achievement. Dazed by the outcome of the presidential election. Atiku started the new song of going to the tribunal. He said, over… Read More

The eyes see what they want to see.  And the mind believes what the eyes see. In the Washington Post’s essay entitled, ‘Psychology explains why people are so easily duped’, Eryn Newman, a postdoctoral scholar in cognitive psychology at the University of California, deduced that ‘’photos and names can have surprisingly powerful effects on our memories, beliefs and evaluations of… Read More

Since President Muhammadu Buhari surreptitiously shot his way back to Nigerian politics, Nigerians knew no peace. Dictatorship is synonymous with military regimes. But this is not always the case. Some democracies, like Nigeria’s democracy under Buhari, are worse than military dictatorships. Dictatorship in a democracy is when a president or head of a government wields absolute control over all aspects… Read More