Category: OP-ED

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has theorized that the oil and gas found in the Niger Delta region belong to the federal government, and not to the oil-bearing communities. Legally speaking, Obasanjo can be said to be correct, because he was part and parcel of successive military juntas that cleverly and systematically inserted expropriatory and inhuman laws concerning ownership of oil… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari has a storied career in the military and oil and gas industry. As a military ‘old-school’ General he had seen and fought wars (including the Nigeria/Biafra pogrom). He had treasonably supplanted a democratically-elected Federal Government. He had been Federal Commissioner, Minister and Head of the Petroleum Trust “Fraud” (PTF) during the kleptocracy of the late Gen. Sani… Read More

Life! A hazy phenomenon; difficult to comprehend and make sense of. Life is not always fair to us humans. Even looking at it from the religious angle, there would be the fall from grace, the departure from paradise, and the attendant woes that mankind has faced since the days of creation. A scientific angle also tells of an unfair life… Read More

If the hate-filled Nazis had not been indigenous to Germany, it is certain they would have been shipped back to their ancestral homeland given all the death and damage they had deliberately caused. Since they were indigenous to Europe, after the Nazis surrendered in May 1945, the allies had to ensure that their destructive racist superiority notions would be permanently… Read More

By the time we meet again on this page, right here, this very space, it would be a new year, and it is just so amazing that that is the way of the world. A year begins. It ends. From January to December, we go through the same cycle, inexorably. And as I look back, what I remember is a… Read More

“We are collecting signatures and we already have 73, which is more than the number we need to override the President”. Someone sitting beside me laughed out loud and said “jesters”! This indeed is the best way to describe the charade presently going on at the National Assembly, in relation to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill that was recently rejected… Read More

Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Bishop of South Africa passed away yesterday at age 90.  The first and only time I saw Bishop Tutu was in 1986 at McGonigle Hall when he came for the Convocation at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, for the honorary Doctor of Laws degree. As an undergraduate, I had read a lot about apartheid. I even… Read More

The Nigeria Police Force’s conduct in the forceful arrest and apprehension of Chief Uche Nwosu is shameful, unprofessional and smacks of obstinate hooliganism, and hereby stands strongly condemned. Their mode of arrest has all the markings of kidnappers and ‘unknown gunmen’, leaving more questions than answers in the struggle to unravel the latter menace.  As a rule of operation, men… Read More

Many parts of the universe entered 2021 with the contentment that President Donald Trump, the American billionaire whose  many crooked business deals  also saw him to the White House, was leaving in 20 days. His welcome departure, in reality, had no fundamental effect in American policies across the world. Joe Biden, who replaced him, only had a different style, but… Read More

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja II), was born on the 17th October 1974. He is the 51st traditional ruler of Ife kingdom succeeding the late flamboyant Ooni Okunade Sijuwade in 2015. Oba Ogunwusi is the Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His marital life is fraught with controversies and gossips. Even as a teenager he… Read More