Category: Opinions

Second chances. Not everyone deserves them. What will former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) do differently if by the contrivance of fate, he runs for presidential office and gets elected in 2023? I think the tragedies of the past are better left as legends and not reprised. The past should stay in the past. There is no nostalgia from a… Read More

All things being equal, the Nigerian youths will play a significant role in the 2023 elections based on the Nigerian population figures. The UN’s World Population Prospects interpolation estimate shows the Nigerian population will have about 214 million people in 2022. Those aged between 18-29 years are estimated to be around 42.7 million, and those aged between 30-39 years will… Read More

Abba Kyari’s response in July after the US Attorney General’s Office Central District of California issued a warrant of arrest against him following his indictment in a case of internet fraud involving Ramon Abbas, otherwise called Hushpuppi, was the earliest warning sign that the Nigerian end of this affair might descend into a farce. The US authorities might have taken… Read More

One would have predicted correctly the reach and firmness of the political webs of the revered ‘Lagos Landlord’ Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu, examining his style of nurturing students of his political school of thought, who also grew to be emerging godfathers in their own individual capacities. If influence denotes enthroning and dethroning political leaders, without an iota of hurdle, then… Read More

In my article titled “ASUU: WHAT IS THE INTEREST OF THE NATION”, published in the Guardian Newspaper of Sunday, the 19th of August 2013, written in response to one Doctor Olusanya, in his piece, entitled “ASUU: Beyond Aluta Continua”, published Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009, in the opinion page of the Guardian newspaper, I have reviewed this topic of ASUU-FADERAL GOVERNMENT… Read More

Since Nnamdi Kanu’s abduction in 2021 by General Buhari’s transnational Gestapo, the consequential rage of members of the Indigenous People of Biafra has been, to a considerable extent, not up to scratch. Instead, there seems to be a diminishing rage, IPOB itself on the brink of becoming another fossilized group in the graveyard of reactionary opposition. My suspicion is: It… Read More

Pro 28:1 (BBE):“The evil man goes running away when no man is after him, but the upright are without fear, like the lion.” Those were the words of the richest, yet wisest man in human existence, Solomon the son of David, a king under whose reign every man of Israel became employer of labour. It is no longer news that… Read More

Sometime in 2003 at Highfield Court, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, United Kingdom, the spate of coup d’état in Africa popped up in our informal conversation at our communal kitchen between me and my apartment mate, Frank Krifka. Somewhere in our conversation, I told him that a coup could happen in America. An expensive joke you might say. He… Read More

Some say it is retrogressive, whilst others maintain that it is unpatriotic to limit the choice of political office holders to any particular zone of the Country. The starting point however should be law, equity and fairness. If you have benefitted or are still benefiting from a particular formula previously, it will be totally unfair to seek to discard it… Read More

The third world economic system has introduced different dimensions to modes of marketing as well as advertisement of products by producers to the general public. One of the integral parts of these dimensions is the use of celebrities by corporate organisations for the advertisement of products and services under what is generally termed as Brand Ambassador. This system allow companies… Read More