Tag: Opinion

The growing calls for the regulation of social media platforms in Nigeria by the country’s politicians are absurd and a misplaced priority. Rather than reduce hate speech and fake news as the policy proponents hope, it would only give the government needless powers to determine the extent to which Nigerians enjoy their God-given freedom of expression. Moreover, there are more… Read More

The #EndSARS protests which lasted for about two weeks until the crisis in Lagos on October 20, 2020, now known as the Black Tuesday in Nigeria’s contemporary history, may have abated, with the disappearance from Nigerian streets of the horde of protesters, looters, hijackers, and miscreants who together lent a new dimension to the protests. But essentially what we are… Read More

The country, United States of America, has grown its tentacles so big among countries of the world that its stand on international organisations has effect in both the funding and recognition of such agencies. It became a huge blow for the United Nations specialised agency, World Health Organisation (WHO), when President Donald Trump moved to withdraw US participation from the… Read More

I read with a putrid feeling of nausea and utter shame a statement credited to the Hon Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, wherein he was quoted to have said it was possible that hoodlums dressed in army fatigues could have been responsible for the shootings at Lekki Toll Gate during the recent #EndSARS protests.… Read More

In the Nigerian polity, there have been heated discussions around the regulation of social media. This discussion was brought to the fore again after the #EndSARS protest, which was anchored largely on social media. The social media was used for mobilization, reaching the international community among many other purposes. It got to a stage that the Chief Executive Officer of… Read More

Currently, I’m battling with this cough and catarrh (An aftermath of sleeping out in the cold and under the fangs of mosquitoes in Alausa, Ikeja), I figured it might yet make sense to pour out all I have in my head about the peaceful protest and not go crazy. I’m sure you know how it feels when you have loads… Read More

Some days I breathe and it feels like something is about to burst out of my chest when I think of Nigerian government. What do you call a government that steals, kills, maims, and repeatedly lies? What do you call a government that treats its citizens as battered and tortured animals? What do you call a government that thrives in… Read More

Nine years ago, ahead of the planned commencement of toll collection at the Lekki toll gate, on the 18 of December 2011, I joined hundreds of protesters as we stormed the Admiralty Plaza, Lekki toll gate in protest against the tolling. That same toll gate where soldiers shot at peaceful protesters in October 2020. Heavily armed policemen led by the… Read More

I watched my brother Mazi Nnamdi Kanu’s interview with my brother Chief Dele Momodu on Thursday evening and I was inspired and encouraged.  Nnamdi spoke with such eloquence, passion, courage and strength. He is brilliant and irrepressible. He cannot be underestimated or ignored.  Every African should listen to that interview. He cleared a lot of misconceptions about himself and made… Read More

Humanity is all inclusive. There are no higher or lesser humans. We all breathe the same air. Whether doctor, lawyer, journalist, police or soldier; we are all humans first, and as such we are entitled to the natural right to exist, to live. When this right is breached – even if it concerns our ‘’enemy’’ – we must all stand… Read More