Category: OP-ED

61 years ago, our founding fathers laid out a vision, that the many nations and ethnicities, North and South of the Niger, 300 languages or more, differing tribes, and religions, would by the grace of God become one Nation. That their diverse strengths and gifts would coalesce into a formidable economic and regional force. And that these united nations may… Read More

The United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, is the lone stage in the world all countries make annual appearances. But in this 76th Session, Afghanistan is allowed only a cameo appearance. This is because the Western countries who dominate the UN Permanent Security Council  are still licking their wounds and would not allow the Taliban government in Kabul address the world,… Read More

The true definition of independence is freedom from the control or influence of others. Independence is important for a country because it’s the reason for the country’s existence. Concisely put, independence gives a nation the right to decide its own fate; it promotes confidence and self-esteem, as well as motivation and patriotism. Independence guarantees freedom from the control, influence, support,… Read More

“All frauds , … always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support,” so mused Richard Whately (1787 – 1863) an English academic, rhetorician, logician, philosopher, economist, and theologian.  Dr. Wale Bolorunduro is a very fine gentleman. Very brilliant. But unfortunately, on this matter of Rauf Adesoji Aregbesola’s legacy in Osun State, he just kicked the penalty… Read More

Every month of September annually global leaders usually gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York, the US, for the UN General Assembly sessions. Leaders in attendance, including those from Africa, are always billed to address the world and meet and familiarise with each other. President Joe Biden is participating for the first time in this year’s 76th edition… Read More

School na scam! I hear this phrase a lot of times these days, especially from Nigerian youths. Ask them what they mean, they will tell you that the whole hype about education being the foundation for a productive and profitable future is all lies – that all the talks about schooling being the gate pass to a life of comfort… Read More

On Saturday, 11 September 2023, the good people of Isoko South Constituency 1 came out to choose a new representative to fill the Delta State House of Assembly seat left vacant by reason of the sudden and sad death of Mr Kenneth Ogba, an amiable gentleman, my last recollection of whom was at the reception of guests following the burial… Read More

Power. It excites and incites. It can excite hope and strength, or incite tension, hate and bitterness. Why should the regional background of the next president be a vexatious issue, evoking threats and recriminations? Why should brothers be at daggers drawn with each other over the geography of power? What happened to gentlemanly ententes, negotiations and trade-offs? What happened to… Read More

Justice, equality, and fraternity were the tripod forces and principles that triggered the 1789 French Revolution. These became the song on the street of Bastille and other parts of France that year. It was sung and animated so much so that it became the signpost of hundreds of demonstrations of people’s power around the world in the years and centuries that followed. The organization of polities around the notion of a nation-state and the political coordination of such an entity was at this… Read More

The APC led Buhari administration is no doubt desperately in need of exciting distractions to keep the focus of the people away from its abysmal failure, but she has chosen a wrong masquerade for the job!   With a masquerade living in anger of the south easterner over his betrayal of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, and waiting for the vengeance of his… Read More