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From time immemorial, nations have had the quest to be sovereign with their affairs governed with autochthony rather than externally. The rise and fall of the great world empires like the Greek, Roman, Persian, Babylonian etc have their roots in the desire by mortals to resist foreign domination and oppression. Coming down to Nigeria, there was a crisis in 1961… Read More

Whilst poring through the heart-wrenching images that emerged on different social media fora concerning the RevolutionNow protests yesterday, one could at once see the bestiality of those who should protect the sanctity of Nigeria’s democracy; those who should tirelessly protect the lives and rights of Nigerians – violating all with no modicum of reservation – serving as irredeemable instruments of oppression, and… Read More

Today, I had the second DSS encounter as we gathered for the #RevolutionNow protests in Abeokuta, Kuto roundabout.  I was arrested at around 11:55 am and immediately whisked to the state Headquarters of the agency. Just like the government that gives it orders, the agency itself is clueless. We engaged in discussions for more than an hour. I was later… Read More

It is a great achievement as Nigerians are beginning to see the handwritings on the wall. Our leader has publicly displayed a lack of interest for peace. A nation that intentionally breeds terrorists for ‘personal’ use, where leaders breeds and keeps terrorists as though in a poultry/farm where they’re kept for growth. It is painful that the democracy we fought… Read More

Fear has consistently been a mishap for a significant number of us. It has caused numerous damages, numerous difficulties, and has been a friendly enemy to us all but one thing most of us fail to know is ‘fear is nothing but the absence of courage’. The causes of fear in man are inferable from numerous reasons. Extremely important occasions… Read More

Walahi. I love this policeman. Kudos to the best RevolutionNow protester of the day! By class identity, police is truly our friend if not for the tyranny of government that brutalised and dehumanised them to become bestial against their class interest and same members of their poor class. I like this policeman who was tactically protesting peacefully against insecurity and… Read More

The recent standoff between the two Asian nuclear powers, India and China, spawned 20 dead Indian soldiers alongside a shackled prime minister in Delhi seeking to save face. As a retaliatory measure, seemingly nothing short of charade though, India’s Modi mandated banning 50 Chinese mobile applications including TikTok and WeChat. Considerable number of analysts recount India’s response as sheer symbolic… Read More

After going through the major news headline on the front page of most newspapers today, I had only one conclusion, that the President is unaware of the scale, consistency and ferocity of the killings happening in the country, particularly the Northern region! Most of the headlines read inter alia, “Buhari orders rejig of the nation’s security architecture”. For a second,… Read More

Today, August 5, marks the first anniversary of #RevolutionNow led by Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of SaharaReporters and former presidential candidate of African Action Congress. Few days before the peaceful protest took place, the State Security Service of General Muhammadu Buhari’s despotic regime, abducted Sowore from his Lagos hotel room in the middle of the night. Sowore was charged among other… Read More

The Executive Governor of Ebonyi State in South-Eastern Nigeria, David Umahi, is a gentleman who plays the politics of service to the people. Like the 36 governors of the component states that make up the Nigerian federation, Governor Umahi is not exempted from accusations and allegations of looting of the treasury and dictatorial tendencies in power. While abuse of power… Read More