Category: Opinions

The saying that a prophet is not appreciated at home may well be referring to former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings, who died last Thursday from COVID-19 related complications, three weeks after his mother was buried. Ghana is in seven days of mourning, but Nigeria is crying more than the bereaved. Among Nigeria’s political elite, there has been a “condolence contest.”… Read More

Four days ago, Manuel Merino, Peru’s Interim President, resigned a day after two people were killed during protests against his government. The two died as a result of a police crackdown on protesters.  Merino’s resignation came a few days after taking over from President Martín Vizcarra. Unlike Nigeria’s #ENDSARS protesters that were just sitting down singing the national anthem and… Read More

On 18 November 2010, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a preliminary examination into the situation in Nigeria. It is a decade on now, yet the Prosecutor is yet to make a decision on whether to proceed with investigating and prosecuting perpetrators of crimes committed in the northeast by both sides to the conflict: Boko Haram and… Read More

Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched here not for righteous ends but for some predetermined recidivist motives. In particular, the so-called ‘’corruption probes’’ are themselves felonious panels set up to exact vengeance, broker deals or cause distraction from national discontent. Beelzebub cannot cast out demons. I… Read More

If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven beyond doubt, it is how humanity depends on science for its survival. Every confounding development that has been thrown up by nature or biology since the days of the prehistoric man has been resolved, and humanity has advanced on the back of scientific discoveries, from the argument by Galileo, who… Read More

My summary of the outcome of the United States election was that the promoters of nationalism, isolationism, xenophobia, conspiracy theories, lies, indecency, hatred, division were rejected. We saved science; we saved democracy; we saved the world, and we saved Christianity too. One of the things that became clear to me after Joe Biden won the United States presidential election was… Read More

Re: Femi Adesina’s ‘We Have Not Many Fathers’ And so, Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, says that we were lucky that the other side of the president that is frightening, fearful, and vicious was not manifested, otherwise ears would have tingled and tongues wagged about the calamities that would have befallen us lesser mortals following the #EndSARS episode. In his words,… Read More

A terrible day, a terrible experience. It was a bright peaceful morning, we converged at Akindeeko to ignite the #Endsars protests despite all forms of intimidations and brutasalitions we witnessed 2 days before this day. In company of some comrades we went to Olaiya junction in Oshogbo to assemble, gyrating while waiting for others to join.  Not up to an… Read More

After employing and sponsoring hoodlums, thugs and other bloodthirsty agents to forcefully end and disperse peaceful protests, Mr Gboyega Oyetola, current governor of Osun State, reluctantly showed up at the barricades to address protesters since all excuse to defend the brutality and victimisation earlier meted on demonstrators failed. Instead of hearing their pains and grievances; he turned the protest ground… Read More