Category: Opinions

It is an undisputed fact that the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba ethnic groups are the largest ethnic groups in Nigeria. It is a fact that the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba languages are widely spoken in Nigeria aside English language. It is a fact that the official language of Nigeria is English and in special circumstances Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. It… Read More

There has been a nationwide protest against gender-based violence in Nigeria. This protest has been used to raise awareness about rape, and to mobilize all sections of the society against sexual and gender-based abuses. Protests have been held at state capitals-in  Calabar, Ibadan, Jos, and Umuahia. While these demonstrations have overwhelmingly emphasized rape and domestic violence, and understandably so, due… Read More

These are indeed turbulent times for the entity called Nigeria. One cannot wrap his head around the myriad of issues confronting the nation, and, making a case for each of the problem(s) would be an exercise in futility because each problem is uniquely and distinctively complex that it awed even the most meticulous policy scholars. In the preceding weeks, we… Read More

On the 26th of June, 2018, a young lady, who had run a very popular campaign and appealed to young people, who wanted hope and change in the way they were governed was declared the winner of an election against an incumbent member of parliament who had not just spent 10 terms in the US Congress, but was actually a… Read More

Concert is not planned and executed in a day. It takes days for pre-event activities like venue, security arrangement, media and online publicity to be put in place. Choice of the artiste and artiste presence may be the most important  but it’s just an item among other pre-event items that are executed by any concert organiser, not secretly on the… Read More

By now, most people have read the story of the scuffle that occurred between Mrs. Aisha Buhari, her children, and her security aides on one hand and Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf, son of Buhari’s niece who also works as his private secretary, on the other hand, which caused Aisha’s ADC to shoot at Sabiu inside the Presidential Villa, narrowly missing him.… Read More

Yeye people, the Abobaku orchestra in concert with the league of lousy “do nothing Nigerians” foolishly endorsed the midnight arrest and detention of Omoyele Sowore. They senselessly barked: “Sowore should not have mentioned the word “Revolution” in their veiled conspiracy  to defend Muhammadu Buhari’s regime tyranny and intolerance of peaceful protest. We warned them then that the gangster style of… Read More

Rapists are atavistic sadists, who do not belong to the modern world. Very crude in their rusticism, they brutally inflict torturous and indelible scars on the psyches of their victims; and that is for those who survived the act. These scars—psychological traumas—remain with victims as long as they live. Some victims could not live a normal life due to stigma… Read More

Ibrahim Magu, Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, escaped the axe by the gators last week. He was nearly fired. The EFCC chief’s nearly five-year incumbency has been a wild play of intrigues, distraction and confusion. I recall in 2016 when the senate declined to confirm his appointment, citing a DSS report, which was damnatory in complexion.… Read More

One of the most worrisome developments in today’s Nigeria is what appears like a firm resolve by the Muhammadu Buhari regime to continue circulating the very distressing impression that it does not know how to solve the endless aggression being unleashed in different parts of the country by Fulani herdsmen, who move and operate as if there are no laws… Read More