Category: Opinions

The recent activist behaviour of the judiciary through the many and sometimes controversial judgments handed out by our courts in election petition maters can only suggest that it is time we fixed our electoral process. From Zamfara, to Rivers; from Osun to Kano; and from Imo to Bayelsa, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the highest court in the land, had… Read More

The Coronavirus or Covid-19 first broke out in Wuhan, China in December 2019. It took the nation which is touted to be the most populous by surprise as the death toll was over a thousand in barely a month. Then came the strong arm of leadership as the authorities shut down all the factories and public facilities and encouraged its… Read More

It’s been only eight months plus out of four-year second term of President Muhammadu Buhari. But for Buhari’s critics, haters, and wailers, it’s felt like 1000 years: long Stone Age centuries chock-full of plague, illiteracy, suffering, poverty, corruption, insecurity, and madmen without specialists running roughshod through the ruins of ancient city. These harshest critics of Buhari accused him of not… Read More

In December 2015, the Nigerian military, under the pretense of road blockade to the COAS, attacked members of the Islamic movement in Nigeria thereby killing over a thousand innocent and armless citizens including women and young children.  While testifying before the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the attack, the then secretary to Kaduna State government confirmed that 347 members of… Read More

In a world where laughter is already in short supply, the outbreak and rapid spread of Coronavirus has only left us all the more depleted. The world, as we know it, has been turned on its head. Yet, in this once-in-a-lifetime experience we have examples of fate using tragedy to write the book of humour. Who could have believed that… Read More

Coronavirus (COVID-19), an exorable doom, threatens life on the planet. It is exorable because it is conquerable. This explains why world leaders are taking the charge to combat this ominous apocalypse. It is a time for leadership from the fore-end; a time when citizens must hear their leaders speak to them; see them take action, making assurances and fulfilling those… Read More

The map that is emerging of the global situation of Coronavirus disease, better named as COVID-19, is strange and surprising. Take a map of the world with all-white background, and put black spots to mark the places where COVID-19 cases are high or significant, Africa stands out as the only continent that remains mostly white. The other continents have large… Read More

What began with a handful of mysterious illness in a vast central China city has travelled the world, jumping from animals to humans and from obscurity to international headlines? First detected on the last day of 2019, the novel coronavirus has infected tens of thousands of people-within China’s borders and beyond them – and has killed more than 8,272. It… Read More

A brother fights and maims his brother to death, because of poverty. A hopeless mother consciously chokes her child’s throat because of servitude and less power to feed the child. A sister sells her body to men as a commercial vehicle that has no gear or brake, because of negligence. A father abandons his children and runs away to an… Read More

Comrade Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole burst into national consciousness in 1999 when he was elected the numero uno Nigerian Labour Leader as the President of the Nigerian Labour Congress. He had held several positions within the labour hierarchy previously including as the General Secretary of the National Union of Textile Garment and Tailoring Workers of Nigeria in 1982 which was a… Read More