Category: Opinions

In response to Goodluck Jonathan’s untold hypocrisy, it is necessary to always point out their flaws in this manner even if we cannot always be chanced to engage them in persons. Politicians whether serving or had served, should not continually be spared of the mockeries they make of the people lest they continue to rape our senses and make us… Read More

If after the press conference of lies by the Department of State Service’ Peter Afunanya we still have some Nigerians, who believe he is not a despicable liar, then we have gone down the rabbit hole. It was a hilarious press conference because it was full of deceptions of a child. Afunanya is either a pathological or a compulsive liar.… Read More

Before he was sworn in as President in May 2015, Muhammadu Buhari, without prompting from anybody, publicly told his immediate and extended family members to stand back from his incoming government. He even warned that any family member who used his name to peddle influence would face dire consequences. I was so impressed by this declaration that in my May… Read More

Barely 48 hours after the expulsion of a Babcock University student over a viral sex video, Edo State Polytechnic followed suit by expelling two students for ‘sex offence’ similar to that of Babcock. A brief sex clip of some UNILAG students having sex around the hostel compound had equally surfaced in no distant time. Similar to these clips was another… Read More

Enoch Powell was a great British parliamentarian, a scholar and a writer, who developed the maxim; ‘All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.”  The refusal of Atiku Abubakar, to cut off his Presidential ambition midstream resulted in his political… Read More

Ewekoro community in Ogun State, South West Nigeria, is an ancient settlement on the hub of West Africa’s rainforest. The home of Elephant Cement is presently floating at the mercy of greed and labyrinth of industrial decimation, occasioned by Lafarge Africa Plc. Apart from the obvious and intentional environmental hostility visited on the once ambience and boisterous agrarian dwelling, Ewekoro community… Read More

“Democracy depends on strong institutions and it’s about minority rights, checks and balances and freedom of speech.” Those were the words of former United States President Barack Obama when he visited South Africa in June 2018. Now a quick question. Is the system of government practised today in Nigeria a democracy? I’m not sure how you will answer that but… Read More

Since the return to democracy in 1999, politicians in Nigeria have continued to cajole the electorates into giving them mandates using different exploitative cum inhuman strategies. This callous exploitation has contributed negatively to the development of democracy in Nigeria.  Politicians display lackadaisical attitudes after assuming offices only to show up during election period with huge financial war chests to take… Read More

“The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery.” The story in the preceding verse is known to almost all who have read the Bible or have chanced across the story of the… Read More

Nigeria’s proposed Hate Speech Bill, which passed the first reading on the floor of the Senate last week, is both an ill-advised move that endangers the survival of democracy and a frivolous adventure to set up a needless agency. This is the second time the bill is surfacing after it was brought to the National Assembly in 2018. This time,… Read More