Category: OP-ED

President Buhari’s return from the Expo 2020 in Dubai felt like Jeff Bezos’s return to earth when the American billionaire spent $5.5 billion to stay in Space for four minutes.  Like Bezos, Nigerians would have preferred if Buhari had stayed away from the country so long he foots his bills and his entourage’s. That shows how Buhari’s influence and importance… Read More

So many versions of the unfortunate incident that led to the demise of a promising young child have been bandied on the media that it is impossible to sift fact from fiction. What can be distilled from all the noise, as factual so far is that; the late Sylvester complained about pains to his school clinic which he said resulted… Read More

The failure of Nigeria’s institutions is a result of citizens’ failure to question authorities in power, resulting to the so-called leaders seeing themselves as demigod. We have been tricked into several deceits by political prostitutes whose aim is to rob citizens and collect all that belongs to the people by force without considering the repercussions or consequences of their actions… Read More

The death of Sylvester Oromoni, a JSS 2 Student of Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos under controversial circumstances, has understandably sparked outrage – with both parents and other concerned citizens expressing shock and anger. Sylvester Oromoni Jr’s death speaks to the failure of the Nigerian school system, the collapse of morals and the evil that has overtaken not just the… Read More

When the news came in suddenly online, last week, to the effect that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was scheduled to re-appear before Justice Binta Nyako at the Federal High Court in Abuja in what was described as abridgement of time application for a fast-forwarding of trial not a few Nigerians had… Read More

I was close to the environmentalist and writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa. We often dicussed the Niger Delta and environmental  pollution. At a point, he was made the Spokesperson of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP. In this position, he campaigned vigorously against the destructive activities of transnational oil corporations in Ogoniland. At a point, whenever he issued… Read More

What defines Nigerian politics is death of shame. Nigerian politicians feel they can lie about everything, say anything even when Nigerians can easily see their falsehood. Our politicians are steadfastly, almost impressively impervious to shame. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu cherry picked 11 out of the 32 recommendations of the reports of the judicial panel he set up to investigate… Read More

The heading of this piece rhymes   Ola Rotimi’s play, Our husband Has Gone Mad Again.  In Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, Ola Rotimi  took a comic swipe at ideological misfits and opportunists who strut the ever- ready political landscape of contemporary Africa, and indeed Nigeria.  Governor Rotimi Akeredolu perfectly fits into the character- Lejoke- Brown and his political excesses. … Read More

“Each generation must out of relative obscurity, discover its own mission; fulfill it, or betray it.”     By Frantz Fanon: Wretched of the Earth. I have read a foolish write up, from one stranger who claimed to know me in school as a “drop out”. I write this piece not to respond to such idle talk, but rather to encourage… Read More

I do know that South Africa’s President, Cyril Matamela Ramaphosa, is not, currently, engaged in a site-seeing trip for west African traditional dances.  He’s not in West Africa to taste whose jollof rice is better….  As a strategic thinker, he envisions some opportunities from some of the challenges facing Nigeria. After all the pursuit, protection and promotion of the national… Read More