Tag: Opinion

Nigeria is an exceptionally intolerant country – religion-wise. In fact, the country is next to Iran on the religious intolerance threshold. You could get killed, threatened, hounded, harassed and victimised for going against the religious orthodoxies. The two major religions in Nigeria – Christianity and Islam — bubble with the most fanatical of followers who elect themselves ‘’defenders of God’’.… Read More

Omoyele Sowore, journalist, activist, and leader of #RevolutionNow returns to court today in Abuja. Arguably, Sowore is the most popular and easily recognized prisoner of conscience in Nigeria today. Muhammadu Buhari’s regime is a cage for Nigeria’s prisoners of conscience and epicenter of a brutal crackdown. As Nigeria boils and burns with rage and riots over Buhari’s repressive regime, Buhari… Read More

The use of raw power to settle personal scores against ones perceived enemies, is a dastardly but palpable contemporary political reality. Our own nation’s political landscape has not been devoid of this aberrant behavior. Even though, our democratic dispensation is still in its infancy, yet it could be seen as being fully replete with these clearly very unpleasant but ubiquitous… Read More

The Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the National Assembly lacks the power to invite President Muhammadu Buhari, to speak on security matters. This is coming a few days after the President agreed to honour the invitation of the House of Representatives to address a joint session of the National Assembly on the security challenges in the… Read More

I almost lost my job as editor of a national newspaper in this country three years ago for publishing an interview on one self-acclaimed professor Chris Imafidon, who claimed to lecture at Oxford University (Keble College), in the United Kingdom.   Imafidon was in Nigeria to deliver the 33rd convocation lecture of the University of Ilorin in October 2017.  Apparently, Unilorin… Read More

On January 22, 2015 at Chatham House, London, Sambo Dasuki, former national security adviser (NSA), baited the whirlwind. He said he had suggested to Attahiru Jega, chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to postpone the general election scheduled for February 14 by six weeks – which is within the constitutional 90-day election window – to give more time… Read More

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, recently revealed that the Nigerian Police Force recorded 717 rape cases between January and May 2020. This means that while the world was busy battling with a pandemic, rapists in Nigeria were busy taking advantage of the  lockdown.  Nigeria boasts of numerous laws against rape and sex-related offenses: At least five legal provisions are… Read More

“The tragedy of Africa is wrought in the minds of politicians who behave like demi-gods and delude themselves that they have monopoly of wisdom.”- PLO Lumumba. Africa is the cradle of civilization and the root of mankind. A land flowing with milk and honey; nature is kind with her, beautiful weather, optimal temperature for diverse ecosystem balance, giving rise to… Read More

As opined by Blinder, central banking is a dark art which requires a useful scientific approach, and we can agree that it requires more than previous banking experience to lead the institution. The current central bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor has not been successful in implementing a naira regime since he was appointed in 2014. One will not disagree that… Read More

Dear Zabaramarians, I might not know your names But I will not allow anyone to call you what you were not! Some called you forty three(43) Other said your names was seventy eight (78) Mere number, in land of your birth! Victims of Vipers in Power! Enemies did not kill you. Your nation gave you out! It wasn’t the sword… Read More