Tag: Opinion

The Yoruba are an exceptional people; precocious, tactful, urbane and temperate. They are about the most sophisticated of the ethnic groups in Nigeria. They know when to pounce, when to retreat, and when to negotiate. For the Yoruba, it is about the collective. It is always about the whole. Group interest does not succumb to the sway of individual ambition.… Read More

Kicking the can down the road is government art. Once politicians maneuver themselves into office, they govern by repeating the promises they made and hope that problems would go away. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. For six years we’ve been trying to find an electoral law that works for voters. It doesn’t appear that we’re nearer a solution today… Read More

It all started a few months ago when the women group in the Opic Area of the Living Faith Church  decided to pay a visit to the Nigerian Correctional Service(NCoS), formerly known as Nigerian Prison Service (NPS). The aim was to extend the love of Christ to the inmates.   I had heard so much about the deplorable state of Nigerian prisons and… Read More

It’s no longer news that the 3 – Storey Multi-million naira Ebeano Supermarket facility in Lokogoma Abuja was completely razed down by fire in the third weekend of July 2021. The damage is already done and the owners are counting their losses.  What we should concern ourselves with now is X-raying  the factors that allowed this unfortunate incident to successfully… Read More

The ubiquitous and ever loquacious Presidential Assistants and Spokesmen – Garba Shehu never cease to amaze me in this blessed country of ours. Any careful observer of the President Muhammad Buhari led APC Government would have noticed how these wordsmiths have raised the art of re-echoing speeches of kings and elders at parleys as practiced by our royal ancestors to… Read More

Since dictator General Muhammadu Buhari aka The Aso Rock Butcher took over in 2015, the warning lights have been flashing red. In what seems like an open invitation to anarchy and war, he embarked on systemic and systematic nepotism, exclusion, and repression of non-Fulani ethnic groups.  He got rid of “federal character” in all federal appointments, institutions, ministries, corporations. He… Read More

“Hello Femi. I have been trying to reach Sowore. Tell him Igboho has just been arrested in Benin Republic. Let this be out as soon as possible please.” This was the call I received in the early hours of today, Tuesday, 20th July 2021 from an ally of Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a Sunday Igboho. It was exactly 1.14am, believed to… Read More

My aging brain still has a vivid memory of that fateful wet morning of June 3, 1992 when the news broke on CNN. The previous day, on June 2, 1992 to be precise, the Bosnian-Serb Army had shot down an F-16 fighter aircraft belonging to the United States Air Force (USAF) that was part of NATO Expedition Force that was… Read More

The digital Sports Minister Mr Sunday Akin Dare (SAD) has the outlook of a fine gentleman with his blue suit and red tie in place always,  but his latest actions are at cross roads with this deceptive mien.  Since his appointment as Sports Minister,he has used his position to intimidate and try to stamp the Athletics Federation of Nigeria AFN… Read More

I recall how PDP as the ruling party at the centre prior to 2015, boasted to high heavens through its then national chairman – Mr. Vincent Ogbulafor that it will rule Nigeria for  60 unbroken years and in that misplaced euphoria PDP unleashed its majority in the National Assembly (NASS) to stifle and frustrate every single fundamental move to  reform… Read More