Category: Opinions

One patriotic citizen risked his life to track, excavate and exposethe stenchy corpse of corruption in Nigeria’s criminal justice systembut no sooner than his findings made it into the precinct of the mediadid reports claim that the cabals involved in the criminal justicesystem went hunting and planning to apprehend this journalist whoexposed corruption. The actions of the authorities calcify my… Read More

Give it to him, the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, knows how to hit the nail on the head when it comes to speaking truth to power. His practical and logical perspectives on national issues can hardly be faulted. An example of this is his contribution at a recent stakeholders’ meeting on how to reduce the number of out-of-school… Read More

My last published piece, “Revolutions that ‘fired’ young Leftists” (September 26, 2019), was an abridgement of what was originally planned to be a much longer essay. That longer essay would have included not only some revolutions that failed but also some revolutionaries that failed to make successful revolutions. In that excised segment was Rosa Luxemburg, a brilliant Marxist revolutionary whose… Read More

There are two demeaning and insulting names that the Fulani gave to Southerners: “Nyamiri” (meaning ‘fetcher of water’) in reference to the people of the South-East and “Yariba” in reference to the people of the South-West. The South-East rejected that name but the South-West accepted it. The name “Yoruba” derives from “Yariba” and it means “shady and unreliable”. I reject… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari’s ‘’rice revolution’’ is laudable. Before the ‘’crop rebellion’’, Nigeria spent about $1.65 billion annually importing rice from Thailand and India. But the country is not yet home and dry in food production. In December 2018, Godwin Emefiele, governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), said as of 2015, the country’s food import bill was $7.9 billion, but… Read More

The recent BBC documentary detailing a slew of sex-for-grades storiesemanating from universities in Nigeria and Ghana has brought to thefore, once again, the lingering and pervasive sexual harassment issuein our society. It understandably ignited a frenzied condemnation across the countryprompting the senate to introduce a bill that aims to prevent thesexual harassment of university students. If the bill were to… Read More

Over the past couple of weeks, those in the corridors of powers in the Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari have been initiating and making outrageous decisions or perhaps insensitive plans that seem not to augur well with an average Nigerian. There have been so many disparaging views and displeasure over different highly insensitive plans from the government such as VAT… Read More

The purported impeachment of the Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Mr Simon Achuba, by the Kogi State House of Assembly and the alleged nomination of one Mr Edward Onoja as his replacement by Governor Yahaya Bello, are acts of constitutional vandalism and a nullity and should be deprecated by all lovers of democracy and adherents of the rule of law.… Read More

I have just read what one Churchill Okonkwo wrote about a recorded phone call where an aide of Governor Okezie Ikpeazu was purported to be threatening another man on the phone. The issue, expectedly, has been widely discussed and, sadly, few well known anti-Ikpeazu soldiers have jumped on the bandwagon to use that opportunity to write their usual unsavoury things… Read More

Something doesn’t smell quite right in the milk. And despite its pungent and piquant nature, this particular feline fiend seems to be impishly and calculatingly lapping it up. For some time now there has been a growing opinion that the Nigerian Ports Authority, a government parastatal under the Ministry of Transport, has been nitpicking at the operations of BUA International… Read More