Category: Leaders

The start of the impunity is what remains confusing. Where do we begin? Is it the video of the ladies where they make a false allegation? Is it the bounty that popular musician David Adélékè “Davido”, placed on the heads of the ladies illegally for information leading to them? Is it the handcuffs which appear on the hand of the… Read More

Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption crusader and a presidential candidate in the country’s 2019 election, Omoyele Sowore, who is being detained by state authorities on trumped-up charges, may not regain freedom soon, because he happens to be a paragon of virtue who truly personifies the famous quotation: “I belong to nobody.” It is clear this uncommon patriotism has not been put into… Read More

History is replete with countless examples of past and present evil regimes in the world. We wonder why people failed to rise up against evil rulers. President Muhammadu Buhari will go down in history as president of one of the monstrous despotic regimes in the world. With all the atrocities of Buhari, Nigerians are mentally, physically, and spiritually disabled to fight… Read More

I have been following the ongoing debate on the origin and meaning of the word Yoruba, with Mr  Femi Fani Kayode arguing that Yoruba was derived from the word Yariba, which means “shady and unreliable”.    According to him, the people called Yoruba today are Anago and their language, also Anago. He said the Fulani were the first to refer to… Read More

I do not know much about sports, but I know what good sportsmanship is. Diego Maradona, the Argentine football shaman, was a great player, but he is not celebrated as much as Pele of Brazil.  One fatal flaw detracts from Maradona’s genius – hubris. Maradona is known to be a sore loser. He curses, barks and brawls in defeat. As… Read More

Majority of people who come to see a psychiatrist are suffering from what is called either a neurosis or a character disorder. These two conditions are disorders of responsibility, and as such they are opposite styles of relating to the world and its problems.  In the case of Lai Mohammed, the federal Minister of Information, he suffers from character disorder.… Read More

So, by now most of us must have heard about the P&ID case that prompted the government to raise a legal team and go all the way to London to fight a legal case of juggernaut proportion. Here, I am going to look at the matter from the Nigerian legal perspective and chop it up in order to examine the… Read More

Prelude ‘Fisayo Soyombo, a multiple award-winning journalist, in a three-part article, chronicles with the aid of pictorial and filmic pieces of evidence, how he got himself arrested, detained in police cell, and remanded in prison (now known as correctional facility) in a daring bid to expose the depth of systemic corruption in Nigeria’s judicial system. In the wake of the… Read More

Not quite long from now did Twittersphere got lit due to aconstellation of fiery tweets and retweets of comments emanating fromChief Dele Momodu’s tweet; one that berated youths, whom he claimedhave ‘abandoned’ Sowore to only talk cheap on the Internet. Hementioned in the tweet how the youths are not ‘putting theirresources’ together to secure his release and fight for power.… Read More

Introduction Information rules the world today. More often than not, the type of information we receive affects our choices, our relationship with others, the quality of life we live, the kind of influence we have on others, the extent to which others influence us, the kinds of activities we undertake and the roles we decide to play in society as… Read More