Category: Opinions

Nigerians are dealings with criminals in power. Our hope has been shattered and murdered by clueless and incompetent leaders. It is crystal clear that General Muhammadu Buhari is a power-drunk dictator whose desperation for power has been shown after several attempts, and when he eventually got ushered to the seat of power, it became very clear that he has not… Read More

It is hard to find any Nigerian who wants to be in Nigeria. The normal thing is for the children of the elite to be outside of Nigeria: getting educated, getting a job, getting medical care – in short, getting a good life elsewhere. The elite themselves are regularly abroad for medical trips, shopping, to visit their children there, and… Read More

“…Nation-building is a futuristic venture; it is not something you do looking back. If a nation would be tempted, like Lot’s wife, to keep looking back, perhaps that nation will turn to a pillar of salt.” – Tope Fasua in Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices   “A country is as good and redeeming as those who engage in its… Read More

We entered the new year with a dramatic conflict between the forces of good and evil. The arrest and detention of Omoyele Sowore and other activists is a grim reminder that General Muhammadu Buhari will lay emphasis on continuity of repression and violation of our rights.  As Yorubas, our rights have been consistently and violently violated on regular basis. We… Read More

Comrade Omoyele Sowore spent the New Year holiday weekend in the Buhari gulag in Abuja for no justifiable reason. At wee hours of the night of December 31st last year during a crossover protest event to usher in the new year in Abuja Sowore and four other militants were brutalized and arrested for allegedly breaching the COVID-19 safety rules. The… Read More

Hate him or love him. Hate his methodology or like his methodology but one thing you can never take away from him is that: in him the man never DIES. If you admire him and his  advocacy for good governance prior to 2015 general elections but suddenly you are mad at him for also deploying similar civil and peaceful means… Read More

Noise making, fireworks to gun shots to church bells are the traditional ways of welcoming New Year across the world.  During a peaceful candlelight protest by Omoyele Sowore and other activists in Abuja, the killer squad from the Rapid Response Squad descended on the activists and whisked them away. According to reports, “Sowore was particularly singled out for torture by… Read More

By my educated guess, it will take four decades to put Nigeria together after the exit of President Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria is like humpty-dumpty – broken, amputated and cannibalised. The Buhari administration has wrought irreparable damage on the country across sectors. The mess is deep and stinks. The next president of Nigeria in 2023 will have to be a night… Read More

It’s true that Coronavirus is not among the top five most deadly diseases in Africa today. But it’s also correct that at this time, we know far less about the COVID-19 pandemic than we know about malaria, diarrhoeal diseases, Ischaemic heart diseases, meningitis, tuberculosis, or HIV/AIDS. Yet, we’re fooling around with COVID-19 and making convenient excuses as if ignorance or… Read More

“Every door has its own key”. African proverb I wish I did not have to write on the Christmas sermon of Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan  Kukah, which appears to have gotten  many segments of the nation all worked up. The Bishop and I have a close personal relationship resting, in part, on respect for each other’s tendency to… Read More