Category: Opinions

The recent Xenophobic attack in South Africa has left Nigerians reeling with reactions and calling for the President Muhammadu Buhari regime to stop the killing of Nigerians in South Africa. South Africans launched a renewed attack on businesses of foreigners including those belonging to Nigerians, burning down shops owned by nonindigenous of South Africa. Nigerians have now taken to social media… Read More

Last Tuesday, the United States announced a hike in the cost of visa application for Nigerians. The US Consulate in Nigeria didn’t mince words in explaining the move: The total cost for a US citizen to obtain a visa to Nigeria was higher than the total cost for a Nigerian to obtain a comparable visa to the United States. The… Read More

As I was about to enter the hall to deliver my speech at theAnaedoonline first-year anniversary lecture in Nnewi, Anambra stateyesterday my lawyer and a member of my delegation, Mr. IfeanyiEjiofor, and I were approached by the DSS and told that he must notattend the event. They said that if he insisted on attending the occasion with me thevenue would… Read More

The Nigeria Police Force arrested Agba Jalingo on 22 August 2019 inconnection to a story he published on the 17 July 2019 at theCrossRiver Watch news platform, titled, ‘How Ayade Approved andDiverted N500 Million For Cross River Micro Finance Bank’. Jalingo is a journalist, right activist and the publisher Cross RiverWatch – an online syndicated news platform with huge followership… Read More

A scathing detraction to professionalism in Nigeria is the customisation of public offices. Institutions are built around personalities rather than on principles and service. The corrugation of Nigeria’s public offices and institutions has a long history. But of significance is the brazen privatisation and deployment of public office to insular ends by Michael Aondooakaa, Attorney-General of the Federation under Umaru… Read More

The decision by Justice Taiwo Taiwo to detain Omoyele Sowore for 45 days and Justice Nkweonye Maha who declined to entertain the appeal of Sowore against Taiwo Taiwo’s ruling, portrays the two justices as two of the most lurid representatives of disgraceful corrupt judges on the Nigerian bench. Justice is supposed to be blind. Nigerian judges are not defined by… Read More

My friend Grace Withers wore black to the Bristol Pride Protest march on 12th of July, the significance of her choice of clothes was first lost on me as I had always associated Pride with every colour on the rainbow spectrum. She went on to educate me on why she chose to look sombre, when she was done, I decided… Read More

August 30th of every year is set aside to mark the International Day of the Disappeared. The day is created to draw attention to the fate of those who have been abducted, imprisoned or detained for no just cause and to highlight the work of Amnesty International, International Committee of the Red Cross and the Office of the United Nations High… Read More

Nigerians wanted a messiah. They got one, or so they thought. His coronation was loud and boisterous. In faraway countries, people danced in joyous rhythm and celebratory backslapping. It was supposed to be a new dawn premised on change. The emotion was infectious, as people lost in momentary covetousness suspended their reasoning. Some trekked long distances in celebration of Muhammadu… Read More

The Belgian investor and physicist, Joseph Plateau(1801-1883), pioneered one of the first devices aimed at making pictures that seemed to move. He studied various optical illusions that seemed to result from the persistence of the image on the retina of the eye after the image had passed from view. In 1832, he built an apparatus consisting of a flat wheel on… Read More