Category: Opinions

President Joseph Biden’s inaugural speech says it all. The United States of America has overcome the attempted coup of January 6, 2021 incited by President Donald Trump. The country is set to re-assert itself as the citadel of democracy. “Democracy has prevailed.”  Democracy has truly prevailed!  The coming of Biden, therefore, is not a welcome breeze to the temple of… Read More

Crime has no ethnic face. When criminality is defined according to ethnic origin or religion, social cohesion is threatened. There are people of criminal inclinations in every group, race, place and religion. In fact, we defeat the fight against insecurity if we lend ourselves to ethnic prejudices. The insecurity devouring Nigeria affects everyone – Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba, Idoma, Jukun… Read More

On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford University’s Eretgun House that if Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, he would leave the United States and cut his green card into pieces. The Green Card… Read More

The country is called Dead. We arrived here late last night. Our team is led by a tender man of steel. None  of us has been in the country before. Though the rest of the world is gripped by the grieve of COVID-19 pandemic, life goes on undisturbed in Dead country. As we landed, the gathering clouds of conquest is… Read More

Dr Amos Arijesuyo, a Deputy Registrar in the Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, who was allegedly shot by some hoodlums on Saturday at Iwaraja area around Ilesa-Akure Expressway in Osun State, has reportedly passed away. Arijesuyo, who worked at the Guidance and Counselling section of the Students Affairs Department of the university, was allegedly attacked by the hoodlums,… Read More

Let us start at the beginning, with the foundations of the Union of ethnic nationalities known as Nigeria. Although Nigeria claims to be upheld by a social contract, given the name “1999 Constitution”, it is now well known that this imposed document is an illegitimate forgery, and the country is therefore not established on the “consent of the governed”. Recently,… Read More

The timing of Rev Father Kukah’s New Year message, and the ensuing offensives could not be more fortuitous, seeing that it comes at a time when a world powerful nation, still reeling from an unprecedented assault on her corporate definition, is now poised to set, at the very least, a symbolic seal on her commitment to the democratic ideal. Let… Read More

Ever since he happened presidentially on the national stage five odd years ago President Muhammadu Buhari and his handlers and aides had not ceased bemoaning the past, blaming the national woes on the past (PDP) administrations. While the blame-game goes on the nation slides further into anarchy and chaos, something unprecedented in the democratic evolution of our nation. Receiving recentlythe… Read More