Category: Opinions

Yahyah Jammeh came to power in a bloodless coup in The Gambia in 1994. The then junior military officer who was just twenty-nine years old seized power and sacked the democratically elected government of the nationalist and founding father of the tiny former British colony, Sir Dauda Jawara. Jammeh ruled with an iron fist and spared no dissenting opinions to… Read More

On   November 27, 2000, 10-year-old Damilola Taylor died on the streets of South London. Damilola was on his way home from Peckham library when he was stabbed in the leg with broken glass by two brothers.  He was later found in a condemned building a few yards to his home.  For six years, the British justice system searched for Damilola’s   killers.   In… Read More

To say that Boko Haram is bent on slaughtering every Christian it can lay hand on is very accurate. But there’s another side to this long-held narrative. A lot of Christians may find it hard to believe that BH also murder, maim, dismember, bludgeon and rape Muslims or probably they are only wont to ignore the fact that there are… Read More

Under fire over the wickedly role he has played in the illegal arrest and detention of Agba Jalingo; Governor Ben Ayade of Cross Rivers State has come up to buttress many of our insinuation and perception.  Ayade has correctly shown that he is just the complainant, but Jalingo’s is a sinner against both the state and the Federal Government. Ben… Read More

On Monday, January 27, Maryam Sanda was convicted of the murder of her husband, Bilyaminu Bello. Maryam, the mother of one, who was alleged to have stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife, was found guilty of the two-count homicide charge brought against her by the police. Justice Yusuf Halilu of the Federal High Court whom I consider a man… Read More

Comrade Omoyele Sowore means a lot of things to different people. Some see him as a hero, who has been committed to a better society and has been consistent about his cause since the 1980’s. Others view him as a mere rabble rouser, who is a constant attention seeker that loves to make a mountain out of a molehill. After… Read More

Currently, there’s a lot of posturing amongst the major car manufacturers, as they jockey for position in the autonomous vehicle chase, with most of them predicting that there will be some form of self-driving vehicle on the roads by the early to mid-2020s – most likely as ride-hailing services (think Uber and Lyft) or commercial transportation (set routes, set times).… Read More

In a country where Nigerians are invariably losing their lives, livelihood and right to free speech, many government officials earn their paychecks propagating duplicitous commercial messages intended to deflect this truth. One of such officers is Presidential media aide, Femi Adesina. His response to questions in a recent interview with Channels TV concerning growing insecurity in Nigeria deeply exposed his… Read More

The zealous conviction with which all Yorubas across the world spoke with one voice on the issue of  South West Security Network, with the code name of Amotekun has made me very proud. The novel initiative of the six governors of the South-Western states on the establishment of Amotekun as well as their displayed courage to have resisted all forms… Read More

Per Malcolm Turnbull, in economics, one of the most important concepts is the ‘opportunity cost’ – the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can’t spend it again on something else. That’s why Igbos have a saying that a child that is consuming akara (bean cake) is consuming his money. People, therefore, for the most part, make decisions based on opportunity costs.  Unfortunately,… Read More