Category: OP-ED

Farewell, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Your departure on the day of sharing LOVE, “Boxes day” speaks volumes. It befits the treasure that the life you lived was. It is an evidence of your commitments to humanity, education, democracy and the promotion of human rights and dignity which you laboriously identified with. In the words of Sir Winston Churchill, “The truth is… Read More

One of the stories about the creation of the Earth (and there are many of them), is found in the Bible. The actor and actress are Adam and Eve. How Eve tempted Adam to destroy his life and made him to lose the Garden of Eden is all known to all those familiar with the Biblical story. Going through the… Read More

Some of the most unspeakable crimes against a people was visited on the Chilean citizenry in 1973 with the nightmare continuing for about two decades. The Sunday, December 19, 2021 presidential election re-run between the beneficiaries of those crimes, and their victims, turned the elections into a stiff battle between barbarity and civilisation, cruelty and its victims, savagery and the people… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari marked his 79th birthday in far-away Turkey where he was attending the three-day Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit in Istanbul. Buhari needs Erdogan as the latter needs him. The two Presidents have something in common: they are bloody civilian dictators! They rule their respective countries with little or no legislative or judicial independence. While in the Turkish capital Buhari… Read More

After four weeks of delay, confusion and indecisiveness, President Muhammadu Buhari finally refused on Monday to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill, citing a raft of reasons which took him so long to improvise you could clearly guess he wanted the cup to pass over him. But every leader must, at some point, face their demon. President Olusegun Obasanjo was in… Read More

Independence from foreign colonizers did not bring the freedom that Nigerians had excitedly expected in October 1960. The indigenous peoples did not know that, but Bello a member of the immigrant and settler Fulani, who was Premier of the Northern Region knew it. That is why he stated just twelve days after Independence that “the new nation called Nigeria” would… Read More

It’s been 20 years now since Nigeria lost one its pride, Chief Bola Ige – a former governor of the old Oyo State, and former Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation.  The sage had his last breath on Dec. 23, 2021 following his assassination by yet-to-be identified individuals in Solemilia Court, No 8, Akinlabi Sanda Close, Bodija in… Read More

What touches us ourself shall be last served.– Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) So President Muhammadu Buhari, who says he is terrified of a condemnatory verdict of history on his presidency is now so incapable, so unable to help himself achieve some form of immortality in the area of electoral reform. He has just refused to sign the electoral reform bill sent… Read More

The news dominating the headlines now is President Buhari’s refusal of assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021. While the bill includes other important provisions aimed at patching up our admittedly rageddy electoral process—electronic transmission of results, for instance—it is the proposition of direct party primaries that constitutes the big bone of contention. It is as clear from the… Read More

What does Nigeria mean to me? It means hope and promise of a greater now and future; it means resilience and courage to rise from dust and nothing; it means purpose in disarray, unity in diversity, brotherhood in divergence and love even in dangerous times.  It will be a violent lie to say Nigeria is perfect or that it is… Read More