Category: Leaders

It was Fela Anikulapo Kuti, the musical iconoclast, multi-instrumentalist, who first used the iconic and ironic word Zombie to lampoon the military intruders who invaded our political space. Fela in his characteristic evangelistic fervor, describes the ruling soldiers as robotic, pathetic, brainless, cartoonish morons. Stretch your imagination further of Fela’s Zombies, you’ll see a horrifying, hauting figure – the living… Read More

Nigeria is witnessing a hug democratic mishap under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari. This is evident in the way her citizen’s socioeconomic and fundamental rights are being violated by the government and the citizens are thrown to altered distress.  The publisher Sahara Reporters – Omoyele Sowore called for a revolution and to further buttress the context with which the… Read More

At times like this, one can’t help but go down memory lane and be thankful for some divine helps here and there; for a privilege as great as undergoing the National Youth Service Corps scheme when Nigeria was still a nation and not nations within a nation as it is today. I remember my first trip to the Federal Capital… Read More

Sowore has been actively consistent for 30 years in his quest for a better society. Flashback to Sowore’s achievement as the SUG president of Unilag was the fighting of cultism on campus, leading the student protest to help secure Abiola’s mandate in 1993 and subsequently leading Nigerian students to fight the dictatorship of General Sani Abacha, a fight that saw… Read More

In circulation all over Nigeria was a very moving quote by Howard Zinn, an American historian, playwright, and socialist thinker: “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient… Read More

Most of us who held our noses to support President Muhammadu Buhari again in the last election had hoped for true change if he was re-elected. Two months into the second tenure, while it may appear as if though Buhari is indeed incorrigible, it is definitively clear that he has forgotten why and how he became democratic president in the… Read More

Are Nigerians poorer today than they were in 2015? Yes, if we go by data and economic indicators. In June 2018, a report by the World Poverty Clock revealed that Nigeria had overtaken India as the top-tier country with a cosmic community of poor people on the planet. Also, the report evinced that every minute, six Nigerians become extremely poor. And… Read More

The arrest and subsequent unlawful detention of Omoyele Sowore by the men of the State Security Services has cast again, a huge darkness on the face of a nation and so we are forced to ask whether this nation is ours. It is quite unimaginable that under a democratic government the tenets and principles of civil engagement can be willfully… Read More

That Nigeria is politically charged and bereft of safety and security would be an understatement. Terrorists are competing for who can surpass the other in wanton destruction of lives. Drums of separation are recently getting louder among many nationalities. Kidnappings once restricted to the Niger Delta have now made travels except by air, a harrowing experience. Banditry goes on as… Read More

It’s the scheduled day for the 21-state #RevolutionNow protests championed by activist Omoyele Sowore who, as he must have expected, is currently in Department of State Services (DSS) detention. Ordinarily, talks at the moment should be centred around the possibility of the protests to achieve its long list of targets, which, it must be emphasized, excludes a regime overthrow. But… Read More