Category: OP-ED

Last week, the People’s Gazette published a news story about how Vice President Yemi Osinbajo obtained N200 million naira from GT Bank in 2015, soon after he was named Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate. The newspaper received copies of bank transfers showing that in 2015, the then pastor turned politician got GTBank’s Investment One fund management department to pay N200 million… Read More

When the story first hit the media space last year, and he started swearing and denying all allegations against him, some Nigerians believed him. Then the FBI began to release text messages between him and Abbas Ramon, aka Hushpuppy. He then changed gear.  “It’s the tailor.” he said. “I saw him looking smart and clean in the pictures he sent… Read More

Writers are the soul of a nation. Chinụa Achebe wrote ‘There Was A Country’ out of frustration. He even said he knew the book will give his readers headache. I may not agree with all what he said in the book, but the title of the book is prescient and can never be ignored.  Things have really gone so bad,… Read More

Introductory text: This insincerity of purpose of the elite in leadership has created a situation where the restructuring debate has been manipulated to mean “restructuring”. That is quite unfortunate because it now places a polarising choice before the peoples so that the future is either restructuring or self-determination. Going forwards, Nigerians should do the right thing, and do the right thing the… Read More

Our attention at the Apostolic Round Table has been drawn to the bigotry of Prof. Ishaq Akintola and his MURIC of mischief. As usual, we see the need to caution Akintola and counsel his imaginary followers on the need to embrace political maturity and be more concerned about the counterfeit of piety that a mismanaged economy has made out of… Read More

In his first official reaction to the ongoing strike by Nigeria’s academic body, Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, stunned some of us when he said he was looking for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Initially, I didn’t get what the minister was trying to say- looking for ASUU, why? Until he said ASUU’s decision to embark on strike came… Read More

Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, the persecuted and tortured leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), came to court yesterday in the same clothes he has been wearing since June 2021. His leading counsel, Mike Ozekhome (SAN) told the court: “My Lord will still see the defendant in the same uniform my lord warned against in the last proceedings. My Lord,… Read More

There’s a severe, earth-baking drought in the Horn of Africa. About 13 million people in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Djibouti are in the grip of acute hunger. The rains have failed in three consecutive years, prompting the driest conditions experienced in the region in 41 years. This ought to be one of the heaviest burdens on the minds of African… Read More

Nigeria has derailed from the era  of patriotism to a theme of shame. The Nigerian system is naturally toxic and afflicted with a leadership disaster. The country’s affairs are currently being managed by criminals whose idea is to rip off the ordinary citizen and tag them with all sorts of criminal offences. The allegory of shame has paved way for… Read More

Abba Kyari was able to use social media to create an image of being a ‘super cop’, the only cop in Nigeria doing his job. He was a master self-promoter, projecting himself to the stature of a celebrity that no one could touch. As a result, he kept receiving awards. First Lady, Aisha Buhari gave him an award; youth groups… Read More