Category: Leaders

I will open this piece with a simple truth: the continued incarceration of Omoloye Sowore and other prisoners of conscience is a prelude of how Nigerian democracy will die. Unknown to the flatterers that are happy with the continued detention of Sowore, they are not good companions and advocates for President Buhari and Prof Yemi Osinbajo. It is these praise… Read More

In a very recent book I co-authored – Urbanisation and Crime in Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan 2019 with Ojo, Adegbola), we made a bold assertion that Nigeria is presently at an accelerated stage of its urban transition, with more than half of its total population now residing in urban centres. Between 2018 and 2050, it is projected that 189 million more… Read More

Not many Nigerians will pick bones with Senator Sabi Abdullahi (representing Niger North Senatorial district) for sponsoring a private bill aimed at ‘prohibiting hate speeches and (for) other related matters’. Many discerning Nigerians have been alarmed at the crippling enthronement and insidious effects of hate speech on our body politics, since the acrimonious electioneering campaigns of 2007 presidential and National… Read More

“If the Hate Speech Bill had been in place between 2013 and 2015, Lai Mohammed would not be alive today” – Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe. My dear friend and brother Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe as courageous and truthful as ever, is absolutely right. I would however, go a step further by adding that President Muhammadu Buhari himself, Bola Tinubu, Nasir el-Rufai, Rotimi… Read More

In response to Goodluck Jonathan’s untold hypocrisy, it is necessary to always point out their flaws in this manner even if we cannot always be chanced to engage them in persons. Politicians whether serving or had served, should not continually be spared of the mockeries they make of the people lest they continue to rape our senses and make us… Read More

If after the press conference of lies by the Department of State Service’ Peter Afunanya we still have some Nigerians, who believe he is not a despicable liar, then we have gone down the rabbit hole. It was a hilarious press conference because it was full of deceptions of a child. Afunanya is either a pathological or a compulsive liar.… Read More

Before he was sworn in as President in May 2015, Muhammadu Buhari, without prompting from anybody, publicly told his immediate and extended family members to stand back from his incoming government. He even warned that any family member who used his name to peddle influence would face dire consequences. I was so impressed by this declaration that in my May… Read More

Barely 48 hours after the expulsion of a Babcock University student over a viral sex video, Edo State Polytechnic followed suit by expelling two students for ‘sex offence’ similar to that of Babcock. A brief sex clip of some UNILAG students having sex around the hostel compound had equally surfaced in no distant time. Similar to these clips was another… Read More

Enoch Powell was a great British parliamentarian, a scholar and a writer, who developed the maxim; ‘All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”  The refusal of Atiku Abubakar, to cut off his Presidential ambition midstream resulted in his political… Read More

Ewekoro community in Ogun State, South West Nigeria, is an ancient settlement on the hub of West Africa’s rainforest. The home of Elephant Cement is presently floating at the mercy of greed and labyrinth of industrial decimation, occasioned by Lafarge Africa Plc. Apart from the obvious and intentional environmental hostility visited on the once ambience and boisterous agrarian dwelling, Ewekoro community… Read More