Category: Opinions

In recent years, disasters of various magnitude are becoming more frequent, intense, and geographically diverse in various communities across Nigeria. One of the most occurring and devastating disasters is fire outbreak, which has destroyed properties worth several millions of naira, rendered survivors homeless, jobless and compounded the suffering and poverty in the land. Most of these fire outbreaks, whether domestic,… Read More

History repeats itself because man in his usual frailty learns the stories but never the salient lessons. This weakness of man ensures that events are perpetually recycled when such needless rigmarole could have been nipped in the bud. In the 2015 build up to the elections in Lagos state, the question of the lips of most Lagosians was Ambode who?… Read More

​As if the rape on our collective resources in Nigeria since the inception of the longest democracy in 1999 is not enough, the dragnet of rape is currently being extended to our inalienable right to human dignity. The right not to consent to the activities of the ‘other room’ by marauding predators who are inherently diabolical. Our girls and women are raped.… Read More

His bombshell was launched on Wednesday June 3, 2020, regarding the Trump White House insensitive, divisive and unworthy handling of the brutal, installment murder of another non-confrontational Black man, George Floyd : “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide… Read More

It’s over one year now that Mr Edet Okon Asim, a former Chairman of Calabar Municipality and Special Adviser to Governor Ayade on Biodiversity, was arrested by police and recommended for arraignment at the High Court by the state Attorney-General on charges of repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl. Edet Asim was billed to be charged along with two other accomplices,… Read More

My dear unconcerned white friend, I do not write to you from a place of anger. No, I am not embittered by your folly. I write to you now because I see you looking at me as I mourn the needless killing of George Floyd by the police in Minneapolis. I feel sad for you because you have chosen to… Read More

“One life taken in cold blood is as gruesome as millions lost in a pogrom.”—Dele Giwa (Late Nigerian Journalist) After five whole years of seeking admission into the institution of higher learning, Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa was eventually admitted to read Microbiology at the University of Benin. Obviously a very serious student, she was in no mood to joke with her… Read More

“The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?” – Bob Marley, December 5, 1976 at “Smile Jamaica” Concert, two days after surviving an assassination attempt. The shape of the face looks like an egg inversely placed in the holder. The cheekbones defy the cocoon of flesh to flex its shape.… Read More

By now, it should be obvious to everyone that the performance of the Nigerian Government and its publicly-owned higher institutions amid this COVID-19 crisis has been woefully inadequate. The advanced countries of the world are today celebrating the “Class 2020 graduates-” the special set of graduating students,  who for the first time, in many universities’ history, are having their convocation… Read More

Legislation is usually enacted to improve the society. The legitimisation goes far beyond the purpose of law. People say that the law reflects society and vice versa. In recent times, the prevalence of rape have increased at an alarming rate in Nigeria. This is fast becoming a pandemic worse than Covid-19 in the country as several lives are being lost… Read More