Category: Opinions

Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Bishop of South Africa passed away yesterday at age 90.  The first and only time I saw Bishop Tutu was in 1986 at McGonigle Hall when he came for the Convocation at Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, for the honorary Doctor of Laws degree. As an undergraduate, I had read a lot about apartheid. I even… Read More

The Nigeria Police Force’s conduct in the forceful arrest and apprehension of Chief Uche Nwosu is shameful, unprofessional and smacks of obstinate hooliganism, and hereby stands strongly condemned. Their mode of arrest has all the markings of kidnappers and ‘unknown gunmen’, leaving more questions than answers in the struggle to unravel the latter menace.  As a rule of operation, men… Read More

Many parts of the universe entered 2021 with the contentment that President Donald Trump, the American billionaire whose  many crooked business deals  also saw him to the White House, was leaving in 20 days. His welcome departure, in reality, had no fundamental effect in American policies across the world. Joe Biden, who replaced him, only had a different style, but… Read More

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi (Ojaja II), was born on the 17th October 1974. He is the 51st traditional ruler of Ife kingdom succeeding the late flamboyant Ooni Okunade Sijuwade in 2015. Oba Ogunwusi is the Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. His marital life is fraught with controversies and gossips. Even as a teenager he… Read More

Farewell, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Your departure on the day of sharing LOVE, “Boxes day” speaks volumes. It befits the treasure that the life you lived was. It is an evidence of your commitments to humanity, education, democracy and the promotion of human rights and dignity which you laboriously identified with. In the words of Sir Winston Churchill, “The truth is… Read More

One of the stories about the creation of the Earth (and there are many of them), is found in the Bible. The actor and actress are Adam and Eve. How Eve tempted Adam to destroy his life and made him to lose the Garden of Eden is all known to all those familiar with the Biblical story. Going through the… Read More

Some of the most unspeakable crimes against a people was visited on the Chilean citizenry in 1973 with the nightmare continuing for about two decades. The Sunday, December 19, 2021 presidential election re-run between the beneficiaries of those crimes, and their victims, turned the elections into a stiff battle between barbarity and civilisation, cruelty and its victims, savagery and the people… Read More

President Muhammadu Buhari marked his 79th birthday in far-away Turkey where he was attending the three-day Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit in Istanbul. Buhari needs Erdogan as the latter needs him. The two Presidents have something in common: they are bloody civilian dictators! They rule their respective countries with little or no legislative or judicial independence. While in the Turkish capital Buhari… Read More

After four weeks of delay, confusion and indecisiveness, President Muhammadu Buhari finally refused on Monday to sign the Electoral Amendment Bill, citing a raft of reasons which took him so long to improvise you could clearly guess he wanted the cup to pass over him. But every leader must, at some point, face their demon. President Olusegun Obasanjo was in… Read More

Independence from foreign colonizers did not bring the freedom that Nigerians had excitedly expected in October 1960. The indigenous peoples did not know that, but Bello a member of the immigrant and settler Fulani, who was Premier of the Northern Region knew it. That is why he stated just twelve days after Independence that “the new nation called Nigeria” would… Read More