Category: Opinions

There is growing concern in the country regarding the ever changing nature of operations of public rules and the implications for all of us. As important as the constitution and other legal instruments, are the public institutions that have a great bearing on the day to day life of the country and its people. Appropriate and efficient institutions – the… Read More

The crises of insecurity has opened a damning page in the life of Nigeria. From Borno to Badagry, citizens are sleeping with one eye open. The military and police are operating exclusively to protect the bosses and their anti-people policies. The only concern of the remaining carcasses of the armed forces is to prevent organized mass revolts. Bandits; Boko Haram;… Read More

My dearest Jagaban,  You know very well that I have always liked and respected you. You will also recall that a few years ago I warned you that everything that is being done to you today would eventually be done to you given the choices you made at the time.  I bear you no malice or ill-will but in view… Read More

The famous Mayflower School, Ikenne was founded on strong principles of problem-solving, self-sufficiency, and humanism. Its founder, Dr. Tai Solarin, is a renowned humanist and educationist established in 1956. The ex-Mays (as the Mayflower alumni are called) who were around either when late Solarin was actively teaching (at a time when William F. Kumuyi attended in the 1970s) or in… Read More

At the height of the armed insurrection against the American State in Washington on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, one of the armed rebels was recorded by the BBC as saying: “This country was founded on revolutionary principles. But it became civil when they got what they wanted.” The particular insurrectionary act was the armed attack, by a mob, on that… Read More

Crimes has no tribe or religion, the perpetrators  domiciled in every nooks and crannies of the country. Ethnicity has been the major problems that  ripped off our coexistence for peace and stability, Sango Kataf crisis still fresh in my memories.  Our society has becomes a designated survival, we are in a  valley of a tactless and horrible atmospheric pressure. The… Read More

After the presidential election in Uganda, it dawned on me that there are two people in the country who don’t fear President Yoweri Museveni: one is his tailor, and the other is his political rival, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, famously called Bobi Wine. Museveni’s tailor makes his suits in complete disregard of tailoring measurements. It would appear that either the president… Read More

Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Africa. According to the latest Forbes Billionaires list he has comfortably maintained his premier position and his net worth is put at $12.1 billion. A staggering fortune for one man in a nation of poor souls and poverty. Dangote made money through cement and sugar manufacturing, oil and gas exploration and other ventures. The… Read More

It was supposed to be a smooth ride into and out of the court, for the Plaintiffs, but they got more than what they bargained for, from the judiciary, after so many years of traveling round the hierarchy of the courts, to get justice. This has become the lot of litigants and their lawyers, who daily contend with the frustrating… Read More