Category: Leaders

The Madam Xiomara Castro Zelaya tsunami that on November 28, 2021 swept away the narcotic-centred political structures in Honduras, was a dozen years in the making. The ex-protest leader and former First Lady is not only set to become her country’s first female President, but the Liberty and Refoundation (Libre) Party she leads which emerged out of the protest movement,… Read More

Nigeria in the last 6 years has seen an insane rise of human rights violations by non-state actors, largely due to the government’s incompetence and more so, by the government in a ridiculous and grossly outrageous dimension with reckless impunity. In August 2017, Charly Boy, Deji Adeyanju and others were harassed and teargassed at the Unity Fountain, Abuja for exercising… Read More

Cyber crimes are global in nature. Scammers and swindlers abound in the cyber space all around the world. The advent of the Internet has made it relatively easier to reach out to friends and relatives around the world. Cross-fertilisation of ideas has become a global phenomenon involving folks of all ages, gender, religions and nationalities. The world wide web makes… Read More

President Buhari’s return from the Expo 2020 in Dubai felt like Jeff Bezos’s return to earth when the American billionaire spent $5.5 billion to stay in Space for four minutes.  Like Bezos, Nigerians would have preferred if Buhari had stayed away from the country so long he foots his bills and his entourage’s. That shows how Buhari’s influence and importance… Read More

So many versions of the unfortunate incident that led to the demise of a promising young child have been bandied on the media that it is impossible to sift fact from fiction. What can be distilled from all the noise, as factual so far is that; the late Sylvester complained about pains to his school clinic which he said resulted… Read More

The failure of Nigeria’s institutions is a result of citizens’ failure to question authorities in power, resulting to the so-called leaders seeing themselves as demigod. We have been tricked into several deceits by political prostitutes whose aim is to rob citizens and collect all that belongs to the people by force without considering the repercussions or consequences of their actions… Read More

The death of Sylvester Oromoni, a JSS 2 Student of Dowen College in Lekki, Lagos under controversial circumstances, has understandably sparked outrage – with both parents and other concerned citizens expressing shock and anger. Sylvester Oromoni Jr’s death speaks to the failure of the Nigerian school system, the collapse of morals and the evil that has overtaken not just the… Read More

When the news came in suddenly online, last week, to the effect that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, was scheduled to re-appear before Justice Binta Nyako at the Federal High Court in Abuja in what was described as abridgement of time application for a fast-forwarding of trial not a few Nigerians had… Read More

I was close to the environmentalist and writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa. We often dicussed the Niger Delta and environmental  pollution. At a point, he was made the Spokesperson of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, MOSOP. In this position, he campaigned vigorously against the destructive activities of transnational oil corporations in Ogoniland. At a point, whenever he issued… Read More

What defines Nigerian politics is death of shame. Nigerian politicians feel they can lie about everything, say anything even when Nigerians can easily see their falsehood. Our politicians are steadfastly, almost impressively impervious to shame. Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu cherry picked 11 out of the 32 recommendations of the reports of the judicial panel he set up to investigate… Read More