Category: Opinions

Remarkably and with astonishingly fake intensity, President Trump has pinned something about the Bidens being the personification of corruption in Ukraine and wherever…. I pinch myself, awakening from an Orwellian dizzying spin, fittingly remembering the certain truths from Wes Fesler. He, the one who wrote the timeless words that Hypocrisy is the audacity to preach integrity from a den of… Read More

I will not go into detail in explaining what N-power is. It is a very popular program credited to the government of President Muhammadu Buhari; and it is known to all and sundry. I have thought, and I hope not wrongly, that the program will be one of,if not the only good thing that the President will be remembered for. It is a form of social safety net meant to prevent the most vulnerable Nigerians… Read More

After a prolonged sickness, Comrade Ayodele Akele, the ageless giant fighter for social justice finally succumbed to the cold hands of death on June 23,  2020.  As a student of the Yaba College of Technology, Lagos in 1980, Comrade Akele played a leading role in the formation of the  National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) after the proscription of the… Read More

Screeching on television in February 2018, Remi Tinubu, wife of Ahmed Tinubu, the Jagaban of Borgu, let out a bellow. She said her husband was ‘’trashed’’ (her word) after the 2015 election. Her wailing: “I was hurt (by) what they did to my husband after the campaign …he didn’t say a thing. We were running three campaigns in my house… Read More

Rape is a moral crime in every decent society. Raping any woman is morally repugnant and no reason can ever be adduced to atone for the crime. Rape ought to be treated seriously by the law given its psychological trauma on the victims. Rapists ought to be treated like murderers, armed robbers or terrorists. Worse of all, when a girl… Read More

Someone told me CBN governor Godwin Emefiele was so alarmed by the hundreds of billions of naira that Sabiu “Tunde” Yusuf has in his name in personal bank accounts that he advised Sabiu to mask some of the bank accounts and to divvy up the amounts in them to save his neck in a post-Buhari dispensation. Sabiu reportedly said the… Read More

If you have read me for any length of time, or you are somehow acquainted with me, you would not be surprised at my obsession with the Yoruba language and culture, and you would be familiar with my love for our proverbs and idioms. It is one of our proverbial sayings that has had me in deep cogitations for a… Read More

This piece aims to present a sensible pathway to more peaceful coexistence between the different cultures and religions in Nigeria. I will argue in this opinion that through dialogue, we can promote peace anchored on justice by valuing what Christians and Muslims and different ethnicities have in common, whilst allowing and respecting that which is particular to our respective culture.… Read More