Category: Opinions

It’s exactly 33 years ago today on October 19, 1986 that Dele Giwa was assassinated by IBB’s blood-soaked evil regime. It was a dark day, not only for the vanquished nation and journalism, it was pretty much darker for the African race and her primitive inclination for power without responsibility; fraud, vanity and vandalistic mentality as a vampire humanity.  Dele… Read More

A beautiful woman with bad character is marriageable; an ugly woman with good character is also marriageable – they will both be wives, but an ugly woman with bad character does not live in a husband’s house. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State is an ugly woman with a bad character – incompetent, chronically corrupt and now, through his aides,… Read More

December 1776, Thomas Paine reminded Americans that “Tyranny, likehell, is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us,that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph”. That was 243 years ago. In 2019 Nigeria, Thomas Paine’s declaration resonates with oppressedNigerians subjected to hellish conditions by President MuhammaduBuhari. President Buhari is a poor substitute for a leader of… Read More

Like an angry tornado, sex for grades is effacing life away from Nigerian universities. Every year, stories abound of how university professors and lecturers seduce and blackmail students. We all hear about it but it’s almost never proven. The malfeasance buried in silence is denying victims to speak up. A lot of female students are being abused but silence has… Read More

I have always assumed that ‘’the cabal’’ or the kitchen cabinet in any administration exists at the pleasure of the president or the leadership; hence members of this clique owe him and everything that comes with him, unsoiled loyalty.  My assumption was underpinned by some classical examples. In 2010, the kitchen cabinet was Turai Yar’Adua’s bulwark when the late President… Read More

Against the background of the recent sting reportage of sexual harassment in Nigerian universities, with special focus on the University of Lagos, I am surprised that many Nigerians are feigning ignorance of the ravaging scourge of sex-for-mark practice which infests our tertiary institutions. There was nothing new or too salacious about the BBC report. There was nothing more fundamental revealed… Read More

One man can induce rippling change in a system. One man can stop illegal detention, arrests, and govern the impulse to clamp down on free speech and citizens’ rights. One man can rebuild relationships and cause harmony to exist among disparate peoples. That man is the president; if only he is willing. In Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, the young, charismatic prime… Read More

Great footage is the key to any good documentary. It is impossible to make historical films without it. Wole Soyinka’s article, “The Crimes of Buhari”, published before the 2015 presidential elections, is a gold mine of documentary footage of the sins of Buhari why he’s not a good president. The character analysis of Buhari in his days as head of… Read More

At the core of the Next Level Agenda that characterized the manifestoof President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term was the policy to lift 100million Nigerians out of poverty in 10 years. The thrust of this isthe care of victims of the vast humanitarian crises that Nigeria hasbeen confronted with. It goes without saying that there’s no shortage of challenges ahead:For well… Read More

The flatulent size of the National Assembly accents the orthodoxies and paradoxes of Nigeria. Nigeria’s lawmakers are some of the highest paid in the world, in a country where about 100 million people live on less than one United States dollar per day, and where citizens are expected to be stoic and exist in deficit while their representatives in parliament… Read More