Category: Opinions

The ‘Matador’-Matawalle has become the ‘King Kong’ now that the Zamfara State House of Assembly gave the ninth National Assembly a bit of respite with the impeachment of Mahdi Aliyu Gusau as the Deputy Governor of the state in a bizarre and ludicrous manner.   The State House of Assembly   snatched the position of “rubber stamp” from the Ahmed… Read More

The name Marshal reminds one of a grassroots politician and student unionist contesting an elective position in the student’s union the year I secured admission into the higher institution. This self-acclaimed Marshall and history student lived within his means as an aspirant for one of the kinly contested positions in the student’s union as at then. The youth portrayed humility… Read More

Following from our preceding outing a fortnight ago, the task with which I have saddled myself is a reintroduction to history. Understood as the theory or practice of revising one’s attitude to a previously accepted situation or point of view what I have embarked upon is better cited as historical revisionism shorn of the pejorative characterization. And it borders on the… Read More

War is messy and never fails to spread responsive misery. When Adolf Hitler asked for safe passage to East Prussia through the Polish corridor and also for the occupied port of Danzig, not many could have imagined that it would spiral into a world war that would cost 85 million lives and leave an unspeakable trail of devastation in its… Read More

The image of Nigeria, a nation destined for greatness and blessed with unimaginable wealth and resources has been so battered as a country. According to the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, Nigeria is in the process of collapsing. He alleged that reckless elites in control of the governance process are blindly running the country… Read More

Nigerians had an idea of why the FG-ASUU impasse has lingered for so long from the conduct of the education minister Adamu Adamu on Monday. For some Nigerians, that was probably their first time seeing the minister publicly display interest in the crisis bedevilling Nigeria’s education sector. Throughout the nine-month strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union… Read More

A video went viral recently showing snippets of interaction between representatives of Nigerian Students under the aegis of National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and the ‘Hon’ Minister of Eduction (HME). The students Representatives had gone to the Ministry of Education to formally protest incessant industrial actions by the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) over failure of Government… Read More

Sometimes it doesn’t rain. It pours! You might have felt it many times in your life, – struggling and struggling and seemingly getting nowhere. What of all those dreams you had and still have? You wanted to get married at a particular age. You were going to get your own car before you turned 28. What of that house you… Read More

Thank you very much for inviting me to keynote the dialogue segment of this year’s edition of your Black History Month activities. As someone who has been with you and has been privileged to participate in some of your activities from the very beginning, I have come to appreciate the dreams which necessitated the inauguration of the Ibadan Jazz Forum,… Read More

The state of consciousness is a good place for the living to be found in. Catholic Bishop Matthew Kukah used this word in the text of his recent lecture where appearing to be a Unionist, he hoped that despite the unfolding signs, Nigeria would remain as one united country. In his paper, he wrote,  “…Nigerians have continued to seek new… Read More