Category: Leaders

Ogbeni Raul Aregbesola was Governor of Osun State for 8 years. He didn’t sign a single death warrant despite over 100 death row prisoners from Osun State. But last week, as a Minister of Interior, he called on Governors to sign death warrants as a way of decongesting prisons. Such official insincerity, not uncommon among the political society, underpins the… Read More

The story of Abba Kyari, the Deputy Commissioner of Police and erstwhile head of the Nigerian Police Intelligence Response Team speaks to the fate of all men who are overtaken by hubris, that flaw of character from which tragedies have been written from Sophocles to Shakespeare. Every tragic hero or anti-hero soon begins to create illusions of his or her… Read More

Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, is the so-called super cop who works as the leader of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team. When the incarcerated Nnamdi Kanu’s Eastern Security Network or the “unknown gunmen” were running berserk in the south-east raiding police stations and prisons, killing security officers, and torching critical national infrastructures DCP Kyari was one of… Read More

A COP is not a rock star. A serving cop who strives to live like a celebrity, exhibiting his claimed prowess in photos and video clips, keeping high media profile, and rolling with local and international big boys, is bound to get into trouble. Basically, his salary cannot sustain such a life style.  A trite in English says, show me… Read More

General Muhammadu Buhari, The Butcher of Aso Rock, was dogged by his lack of education during the 2015 general elections. The embarrassing hysteria centered on the fact that Buhari never studied beyond elementary school. Though he claimed high school certificate or its equivalent, there’s no evidence to such claim. In a civilized nation, Buhari would not have come close within… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari’s Youth and Sports Minister, Mr.Sunday Akin Dare must be a really SAD man now. For all the wrong reasons, the digital savvy minister has been in the public space back to back with more national embarrassments uploading. The SAD man who claims to know all the athletes and the number of medals they’ll bring back from the… Read More

The evidence is there: not only is there a genocide being actioned in Nigeria, but this slaughter is being supported by government. In early December 2020, Lela Gilbert, Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Religious Freedom, USA, wrote for Family Research Council, “At long last, broken and bloodstained Nigeria has been declared a CPC— a ‘country of particular concern’—by the… Read More

It is quite pathetic and worrisome to hear the recent foreign currency policy of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) under the leadership of its Governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele. The policy which is that CBN will stop giving Bureau De Change outlets foreign currency is capable of completely destroying many businesses and households. This anti-economic cum financial policy is coming… Read More

1.0. In this write up I shall attempt to examine the constitutionality of appointments of caretaker committees to run the affairs of political parties in Nigeria. Yesterday the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the Appeal filed by Mr Eyitayo Jegede SAN vs Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN, this constitutional issue came up. There was a split decision. The majority decision of 4… Read More