It is normal to posit that every Nigerian wants a better country even when we differ about the route to that destination. It is time to...
There is an agenda to violence — the state’s agenda. The biggest beneficiary of violence in most cases is the government which controls every apparatus of...
When Comrade Omoyele Sowore mooted the idea of a non-violent revolution last year he was promptly hunted down and arrested and charged to court for his...
I have restrained myself since yesterday from making comments on the State of the Nation given the wanton and primitive destruction we witnessed in Lagos yesterday...
One thing about youth is its exuberance. This cannot be taken away no matter the situation or faux maturity one may try to show, especially in...
The streets of Nigeria are coursing with the blood of innocents felled by guilty bullets of state agents. The Nigerian flag has turned scarlet from being...
At no one time have I witnessed so massive a protest against the government of Nigeria for any reason. I have always quoted Fela who said...
By Chief Dan Orbih As the #EndSARS protests continue in Nigeria and major cities around the world, it is clear that we are in a momentous...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the...
Power has returned to its rightful repository – the people. Our liberators did not come from the north, the south or the east and west of...
On a day like this, I remember President Muhammadu Buhari’s 60th Independence Anniversary Address to Nigerians and my heart bleeds! From the “directionless, unstable” and “nose-diving”...
Following the #EndSARS protests rocking the nation for days now the notorious (Federal) Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was summarily disbanded last Sunday, October 11th 2020. The...
The vulture is a minaciously patient bird. It does not exert itself hunting. It waits to devour the kill of another. It circles the sky while...
The recent demonstrations that characterized the Nigeria’s 60th Independence day’s anniversary and the continuous persecution of Nigerians in some countries abroad show that the country needs...
A wave of protests has spread through Nigeria as citizens call for the disbandment of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, a unit of the Nigeria police. This...
Finally, the backs of the teeming youth population have finally hit the wall. They have been brutalized, maligned, raped and rendered totally inconsequential. They have even...
One of the issues that took centre stage especially by the opposition and the southern political divide during the campaign for political power in the 2019...
Following global protests against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad SARS – the vicious Nigerian police unit tasked with protecting citizens against robbery and violent attacks, the Inspector...
Democracy (demokratia; demos for “people” and kratos for “rule”) as a term appeared in the 5th century. It started as a system of government in the...
Not every non- Muslim will know the importance of the name Aisha to Islam. Aisha was the wife of prophet Muhammad (s.a.w). During her lifetime she...
Women like Aisha Yesufu are like comets; they come once in a generation bearing the torch of truth, courage and resilience. They are lodestars, shining light...
Sixty years ago, this week, Ambassador Joseph Palmer II presented his credentials as the first United States Ambassador to the Government of Nigeria. The occasion presents...
The former Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Peter Fayose, is a politician who made ‘history’ by introducing the ‘stomach infrastructure’ into our political lexicon just as...
I saw him linger in our estate. There was something quite regal about him. He is young and quiet and had on the beads that suggest...
I believe you have all noticed. Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is regaining his stature and waxing reformist on some of the problems dogging Nigeria. He is breaking...
On Friday, October 2, the news channels were inundated with the Breaking News of US President Donald Trump and the First Lady of the United States,...
Following the acrimonious first-round US presidential debate last week Tuesday featuring President Donald Trump and his principal challenger, Joe Biden, the global pandemic, Coronavirus, has just...
The affliction called “the special anti-robbery squad (SARS)’’ has become resistant to every divined antidote. It was set up to treat the pestilence of armed robbery...
Nigeria turns 60 today! Sixty years of flag independence from British colonial rule that spanned centuries. When the Union Jack was lowered in Lagos on the...
One detraction to the national rapport is the hackneyed lies. Lies told and retold many times as truth. Lies told deliberately to tinge a past of...
Harnessing the experiences and the history of religious and ethnic groups in Morocco must be a priority before the holders of that knowledge are lost to...
Experiences over the years have shown that subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) is a burden that must be lifted off the shoulder of the government,...
I was very skeptical when the current leadership of Organized Labour in Nigeria objected to the decision of the Federal Government to withdraw fuel subsidy and...
‘’*All empires fall, eventually. But why? It’s not for lack of power. In fact, it seems to be the opposite. Their power lulls them into comfort....
The British colonialists chucked the power console to the aborigines of Nigeria in 1960. Let me rephrase that. The British prowlers tossed power into the palm...
The pundits who had predicted the outcome and the nature of the Gubernatorial election in Edo State got it all wrong. The Edo 2020 election may...
Imo people were outraged last week when the contents of the new Imo State Administration of Criminal Justice Law Number 2 of 2020 became topical. The...
What a lot of people do not know is the fact that nation building is actually not a process that begins and ends at the very...
The gubernatorial election in Edo State had come and gone (last weekend) with the victor and the vanquished emerging. The incumbent Governor of the state, Godwin...
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared Governor Obaseki as the winner of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Edo state. The All Progressives Congress (APC) polled 223619...
Elections come and go leaving behind trails of lessons, bitter or otherwise, with olla podridas of tongues and potpourri of voices analyzing it. From what went...
Alliances can make and mar us. Jehoshaphat king of Judah (south of Israel) was a man who sought the face of God. He was a decent...
Intolerance due to inherent and acquired diversities among citizens is expected of a country like Nigerians. It is believed that football, to some extent, unites Nigerians...
Mali, a poor west-African country, is notorious for anti-constitutional change of government at the centre. Coup d’etat often happened with grave socio-economic political consequencies for the...
The campaigns of the first-tier contenders in the Edo governorship election have been largely ensconced in the agitprop of godfatherism. While Godwin Obaseki, incumbent governor of...
This was a first. The ‘greatest’ political leader in our history and the self-proclaimed leader of all democrats went to his backyard with rough vegetation behind...
The recent increase in the pump price of fuel has led to nationwide anger and outrage. This is happening at a time Nigerians are just coming...
Many Igbo people believe that the next president of Nigeria should come from amongst us. This dream has been a reoccurring decimal in the Nigerian polical...
Information technology has transformed learning. Visual classrooms, learning apps, learning accountability platforms, access to mentorship, these are few ways amidst many through which technology has revolutionized...
It is now more than six months since Nigeria reported its index case of Corona Virus. On March 23, the country closed its airports to all...
