Tag: Opinion

I could end this piece with the title. And the proof of the efficacy in communication is that few people would demand further elucidation of me, for Nigeria kills with nauseating regularity, our country, a land that might have been paradise, has been destroyed and rendered a cannibalistic place. Nigeria has killed again and again. Even as I type these… Read More

I woke up 5 am US Eastern Standard Time to the shocking and devastating news of the gruesome murder of Olajide Felix Sowore, the younger brother of the activist Omoyele Sowore. Olajide Sowore was killed today around 6 am Nigerian time by Fulani herdsmen terrorists along Lagos-Benin Expressway. Sowore was a Pharmacy student of Igbinedion University, Okada. The dastardly murder… Read More

His reputation and the verdict of history are very important to him. He has said so, so many times, and hopes that he will find solace in the knowledge that he has done his best for Nigeria. There is simply no doubting the fact of the importance of the judgement of posterity for Muhammed Buhari, Nigeria’s 14th national leader, the… Read More

I CAME across a Cable News Network, CNN, interview with a man identified as the Ugandan Minister of Internal Affairs. It was anchored by the network’s North American Correspondent, Larry Madowo, who clearly was being threatened. Madowo, a Kenyan journalist who had also worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC, had to go into hiding in 2018 when he had… Read More

One month from now, Nigeria’s last batch of states created in 1996 to bring the total to 36, would turn 25 years old.  The last batch of six states – Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Nasarawa, Zamfara, Bauchi and Ekiti – was created by the military head of state, General Sani Abacha, on October 1, 1996.   Post-Abacha, agitation for more states has continued,… Read More

August 30, 2021, marked the 20th year that United States (US) occupied Afghanistan in support of the global war on terrorism.  It is the longest war that U.S. has fought, and the end was inevitable.  As I watched Marine General, Kenneth McKenzie, CENTCOM (Central Command) commander, announce the completion of the mission, my heart filled up with bittersweet emotions; on… Read More

The fear of ethnic domination is as old as Nigeria. Mutual recriminations and suspicion have been the scourge of Nigeria’s cohesive development. The south-east says it is the north, and the north points the finger back; the south-west looks on its neighbour in the south with chariness, while the south-south is in perpetual trepidation of the south-east. A bartering of… Read More

Listening to Prof Ishaq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board at the 2021 Policy Meeting which held virtually on Tuesday, reaffirms my belief that there is nothing peculiar about Nigeria’s problems. Our challenges are not insurmountable!  We only need courageous, sincere and selfless people in leadership positions to tackle them.  Those who have been following the story of JAMB… Read More

The Executive Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ioraer Ortom was born on the 23 April, 1961. He is an accomplished politician, businessman, administrator and philanthropist. He was the Minister of State, Trade and Investments during the infamous presidency of Goodluck Jonathan. Before that appointment he had served as the PDP National Auditor. And before that he had worked as the… Read More

Leadership is an often-discussed term in theory, practice, criticism, and activism. However, the practice of leadership is the most difficult of all these phases. Criticism and activism are sisters acts in that they are both endeavors that seek to bring about change, although one requires less physical effort than the other. Any citizen who moves to support criticism and activism… Read More