Category: Opinions

Former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the last general elections, Mr Omoyele Sowore, up until this moment is still held captive in the Department of State Services custody. Publisher of online news platform, Sahara Reporters, Sowore is a man that has been able to fight and win so many battles over the years. His present predicament is… Read More

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell The lie by Department of State Services spokesperson, Dr Peter Afunanya, that Omoyele Sowore will be knocked down by a vehicle if released, is a perfect comic imitation of Baba Sala’s Afeeri Yoruba comedy in the 80s. Baba Sala, who wanted to become rich,… Read More

Kogi State is a clear sign that Nigeria needs to restructure before it self-destructs. Ethnic rivalry is bad for growth and development. Unfortunately, that is what Nigeria is about and Kogi State, more than any other state in Nigeria, clearly represents that archaic structural reality that is backed by a weak ethnic tripod. Just like Nigeria, Kogi has three major… Read More

Last week, exactly a year before another round of gubernatorial contest in the ‘Heart Beat of the Nation’, it’s shocking the entire Edo landscape boils with political tensions like Papua New Guinea jungle bristling with head hunters and primitive blood-curling human vampires. This is the time the governor should have been reeling out all his achievements, three years down the… Read More

The interpretation of maladies churn out daily by Department of State Services why Omoyele Sowore was not released despite two separate court orders by two separate judges makes DSS an extension of President Muhammadu Buhari’s despotic and toxic regime. The continued detention of Sowore brings into the fore the monumental breakdown of rule of law initiated and supervised by the… Read More

The 2007 general election conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission under the supervision of Maurice Iwu is perhaps one of the most fraudulent in Nigeria’s electoral history. Human Rights Watch said this about that election: “Instead of guaranteeing citizens’ basic right to vote freely, Nigerian Government and electoral officials actively colluded in the fraud and violence that marred the… Read More

Indigenes of Northern Cross River Senatorial District have urged the state’s House of Assembly not to allow a vacuum in leadership by ensuring the screening of Tanko Ashang as commissioner-nominee. The residents expressed concerns over the delay in the screening of Ashang, a lawyer, who is among three nominees named by Governor Ben Ayade recently. According to the people, any… Read More

The world does not listen to the good guys. The good guys are too gentle. Most good guys do not understand that the “kingdom of God” suffereth violence and that the violent taketh it by force. You see the bad guys? They have no time for peace talks. If there is going to be a peace talk, there must first… Read More

The current generation of Nigerians is obviously progressing in the path threaded by our parents and the generation before us. That path led us to where we are today – i.e., penury, high level of illiterate citizens, religiosity without integrity and humanity, the highest level of corruption, a lawless country, and a teaming population of docile, uneducated youths. Today in… Read More

Time and again, there are desperate calls not just by veterans but also by younger and discriminating practitioners about the compelling need to rescue journalism practice in Nigeria from obvious dereliction, continuous degenerative state of violation and steady slide into disrepute. If these calls are being heeded and efforts are indeed being made by stakeholders to arrest this worrying drift,… Read More