Category: Opinions

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches (AfAW) condemns the torture, ill-treatment of animals in the name of witchcraft across Nigeria and beyond. As in the case of humans, cruelty to animals linked to witchcraft has largely been ignored and condoned. The belief that witches turn into animals to inflict harm on other human beings and their estate is pervasive in Africa.… Read More

It would not matter to me who becomes the next president of Nigeria because I don’t believe in one Nigeria. I don’t believe in the 2023 elections because changing The Butcher of Aso Rock and his cabinet of fools and crooks will not change Nigeria for the better. Who wants to be president of Nigeria? A country of woes and wolves.… Read More

Life in Nigeria is very cheap and living is very costly. But please don’t ask me for the statistics because they are hard to come by Registration of birth, especially in the rural areas is not common, but more uncommon is that of death; the general attitude is ‘God gives and God takes’. So why worry about a death certificate?… Read More

The government itself should be in the dock for its serial crimes against Mr. Kanu because of his Biafran heritage, free speech, and association in flagrant violation of international law and the Nigerian Constitution. A motion should be filed before Justice Binta Nyako, a notorious pliable puppet of President Muhammadu Buhari, to dismiss the prosecution with prejudice forthwith on multiple… Read More

When Mahdi Mohammed Aliyu Gusau began to make the news in 2019 as the youngest Deputy Governor in Nigeria, it drew awe among Nigeria’s marginalised young population and was celebrated as a victory of the “Not Too Young To Run” movement, which has been the slogan of a generation in search of inclusion in governance and influence in politics. What… Read More

Most refineries are designed to produce certain specifications of petroleum products, depending on the market requirement. Though, some modern refineries are equipped to produce varying specifications of the products. This enables marketers to buy petrol and blend it with some chemical substance to meet varying destination requirements.Each country has a specific chemical composition requirement for their petrol. The marketers or… Read More

Last week, the People’s Gazette published a news story about how Vice President Yemi Osinbajo obtained N200 million naira from GT Bank in 2015, soon after he was named Muhammadu Buhari’s running mate. The newspaper received copies of bank transfers showing that in 2015, the then pastor turned politician got GTBank’s Investment One fund management department to pay N200 million… Read More

When the story first hit the media space last year, and he started swearing and denying all allegations against him, some Nigerians believed him. Then the FBI began to release text messages between him and Abbas Ramon, aka Hushpuppy. He then changed gear.  “It’s the tailor.” he said. “I saw him looking smart and clean in the pictures he sent… Read More

Writers are the soul of a nation. Chinụa Achebe wrote ‘There Was A Country’ out of frustration. He even said he knew the book will give his readers headache. I may not agree with all what he said in the book, but the title of the book is prescient and can never be ignored.  Things have really gone so bad,… Read More

Introductory text: This insincerity of purpose of the elite in leadership has created a situation where the restructuring debate has been manipulated to mean “restructuring”. That is quite unfortunate because it now places a polarising choice before the peoples so that the future is either restructuring or self-determination. Going forwards, Nigerians should do the right thing, and do the right thing the… Read More