Category: Leaders

“Democracy depends on strong institutions and it’s about minority rights, checks and balances and freedom of speech.” Those were the words of former United States President Barack Obama when he visited South Africa in June 2018. Now a quick question. Is the system of government practised today in Nigeria a democracy? I’m not sure how you will answer that but… Read More

Since the return to democracy in 1999, politicians in Nigeria have continued to cajole the electorates into giving them mandates using different exploitative cum inhuman strategies. This callous exploitation has contributed negatively to the development of democracy in Nigeria.  Politicians display lackadaisical attitudes after assuming offices only to show up during election period with huge financial war chests to take… Read More

“The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.” The story in the preceding verse is known to almost all who have read the Bible or have chanced across the story of the… Read More

Nigeria’s proposed Hate Speech Bill, which passed the first reading on the floor of the Senate last week, is both an ill-advised move that endangers the survival of democracy and a frivolous adventure to set up a needless agency. This is the second time the bill is surfacing after it was brought to the National Assembly in 2018. This time,… Read More

Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the last general elections, Mr Omoyele Sowore, up until this moment is still held captive in the Department of State Services custody. Publisher of online news platform, Sahara Reporters, Sowore is a man that has been able to fight and win so many battles over the years. His present predicament is… Read More

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell The lie by Department of State Services spokesperson, Dr Peter Afunanya, that Omoyele Sowore will be knocked down by a vehicle if released, is a perfect comic imitation of Baba Sala’s Afeeri Yoruba comedy in the 80s. Baba Sala, who wanted to become rich,… Read More

Kogi State is a clear sign that Nigeria needs to restructure before it self-destructs. Ethnic rivalry is bad for growth and development. Unfortunately, that is what Nigeria is about and Kogi State, more than any other state in Nigeria, clearly represents that archaic structural reality that is backed by a weak ethnic tripod. Just like Nigeria, Kogi has three major… Read More

Last week, exactly a year before another round of gubernatorial contest in the ‘Heart Beat of the Nation’, it’s shocking the entire Edo landscape boils with political tensions like Papua New Guinea jungle bristling with head hunters and primitive blood-curling human vampires. This is the time the governor should have been reeling out all his achievements, three years down the… Read More

The interpretation of maladies churn out daily by Department of State Services why Omoyele Sowore was not released despite two separate court orders by two separate judges makes DSS an extension of President Muhammadu Buhari’s despotic and toxic regime. The continued detention of Sowore brings into the fore the monumental breakdown of rule of law initiated and supervised by the… Read More

The 2007 general election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission under the supervision of Maurice Iwu is perhaps one of the most fraudulent in Nigeria’s electoral history. Human Rights Watch said this about that election: “Instead of guaranteeing citizens’ basic right to vote freely, Nigerian Government and electoral officials actively colluded in the fraud and violence that marred the… Read More