Category: OP-ED

In geometry, space, sides, lines and angles are ingredients for understanding relativity. However, Grief Geometry is a different kind of kettle. It is here used in reference to the ceaseless adversarial violence with non-receding fatal consequences; resulting in despair, fear, shocks, wailing, lamentation, gnashing of teeth and  other sorrowful  expression of endless grief occasioned by widespread banal violence and generalized… Read More

Penultimate weekend I had attended a social event downtown. A good friend of mine had sent me an invitation card, days prior, intimating me of a ‘Committee of Friends’ gathering where his Nigerian friends and well-wishers would be told of his plans to travel back to Nigeria to traditionally marry and wed his girlfriend this December. The dude who hails… Read More

Though no birth certificate for General Muhammadu Buhari, The Butcher of Aso Rock, has ever been found, it is generally accepted that he’s between 79 and 83 years old.  While your critics paint you as arrogant butcher who kills opponents, adversaries, and non-Fulanis with no remorse, majority of Nigerians believe you’re the most sadistic person that ever ruled Nigeria. In… Read More

Four foreigners identified as diplomats leaving Botswana on November 11, 2021 tested positive to what turned out to be a new variant of COVID-19 which has now come to be identified as Omicron. This variant was unknown to science. However, South African doctors led by Angelique Coetzee by November 24, 2021 correctly categorised the new variant, and with that, the… Read More

It’s not been a merry run up to Christmas for many Nigerian travellers. It all started with Canada, Saudi Arabia, and then the UK, red-listing Nigeria (and 10 other African countries) for the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in spite of relatively low reported cases.  If there were any remaining doubts about COVID-19 racism, these countries shed it and showed the… Read More

Now that the noise and uproar that greeted the sad and unfortunate death of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni, student of Dowen College, Lagos seems to have subsided, perhaps we can  now devote some time to ruminate over the tragedy that is fast unfolding before us as a nation.  We are always apt to shout, condemn and empathise and rightly so, when… Read More

Bisi Akande’s My Participations reads as if it was dictated, not written. All the way through, we hear Bola Tinubu’s voice. It’s like being cornered in a bees’ hive and harangued endlessly by his political foes. A biography of lies. I abandoned the book after few pages! I won’t waste my precious time talking about the book. In his remarks… Read More

Omicron is revealing a gradual global power shift.  The reactions to the recent travel ban against African countries has shown two things.  First, not every country is on board with the slogans of global solidarity that were bandied  about like a football being kicked around in a UEFA Champions League match. The recent racist  headline in a Spanish newspaper demonstrates… Read More

The unfinished business. Just as uncompleted projects line the arteries of Nigeria, inchoate probes and investigations afflict the system. It appears probes are exploited to keep Nigerians busy and excited in an elaborate conspiracy and to cover up official malfeasance – and in some cases to ‘’blackmail and extort’’ — as it is the case with national assembly investigations.  I… Read More

If there is one area this government is failing significantly, apart from its clueless handling of the economy and security, it is in its international communication and responsiveness to Nigerians.  It started with the introduction of discriminatory covid test policy by Dubai authorities, and Nigeria rightly responded by banning Emirates early this year. To date no clear communication on the… Read More