Opinion

The rancor that occurred, Saturday, February 6, at the sitting of the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry investigating the shootings and alleged killings at the Lekki Toll gate in Lagos in October 2020, in addition to reported cases of…

Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike is not a stranger to receiving awards or attracting commendations and recognitions for his numerous heroic and courageous acts.His visionary leadership, astute, strategic governance and exemplary crusading…

Let’s go back in time to May 2004, when the lands of Yelwa-Shendam, in Plateau State, had turned crimson. Primitive fury and hatred were unleashed, leading to internecine bloodbath. Hundreds and hundreds of people were killed along…

Many Nigerians were understandably shocked, surprised, if not alarmed last week, when they suddenly heard the news that the President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari had finally decided to relieve the service chiefs appointed in 2015 of their…

I almost exclaimed "Et tu, Brute?" after reading Ike Abonyi’s piece with the title "Jonathan’s 2023 Selfish Gamble". Because if anybody should accuse former President Jonathan of selfishness, it should not be Ike, for obvious reasons.…

I have deliberately restrained myself from commenting on the issues of the criminality of the operations of some Fulani herdsmen in the South-West, Sunday Igboho,and the varied responses of Gov Makinde and Gov Akeredolu.Amazingly a…

People have very often asked this question whenever I and others who have been in government write something they consider useful or reasonable.Basically, this is because largely members of the public do not understand the intricacies…

After I left the isolation centre last year, I shared my experience and treatment with the public. This was in spite of the fact that at that time some veiled stigma was associated with being infected with COVID-19.The NCDC came out…

In the past week, in the South-Western part of Nigeria, we have been treated to stories of conflicts in Ondo and Oyo States between herdsmen, identified as Fulani, and the Yoruba owners of indigenous communities. In Ondo State, the issue at…

It was in 2009. The Appeal Court sitting in Ilorin ordered a rerun in a number of polling units in the election between Segun Oni of PDP and Dr Kayode Fayemi of ACN.Oni had in the main election and the election petition tribunal that…

Nigeria needs to be restructured. Just look at Nigeria today. This truth is staring us in our collective faces.The current ethnic and religious clashes bedevilling Nigeria are symptoms of the disease. They themselves are not the…

Probably the most irresponsible comment ever made about the Boko Haram tragedy that has been visited on Nigeria is that made by the incumbent Governor of Borno state, Professor Babagana Zulum, whereby he abdicated responsibility for the…

When you read the rhetoric of the honchos of the Buhari regime on the ongoing tensile stress between Fulani herders and the Yoruba, it's hard not to come away with the conclusion that the regime is actually going out of its way to actively…

There’s no year I attend the Wreath Laying Ceremony marking the Armed Forces Remembrance Day Celebration that I don’t shed a tear or two. Secret tears. Yes, secret, as men don’t want to be seen giving way to emotions in public. But why not?…

Rivers State was on the global map for three weeks as eminent citizens of Nigeria joined Governor Nyesom Wike to commission projects in 11 Local Government Areas of the State.This unprecedented development coming at a time most leaders…

On November 2, 2016, a week before the US Presidential elections of Nov. 8, 2016, Wole Soyinka, Africa’s first Nobel Laureate in Literature told a group of students at Oxford University’s Eretgun House that if Donald Trump was elected…

It is most disconcerting when a handful of mischievous, reckless dangerous and hopelessly misguided religious zealots and ethnic bigots that ought to know better like the Sokoto-based Muslim Solidarity Forum issue threats and give quit…

There’s a short video you can find online that brings tears to my eyes. It features soldiers of the Nigerian Army, four spry young men, the type of whom the Good Book says “the glory of young men is their strength,” and they are in a…

Have you been wondering why ordinary folks seem to be less affected by COVID-19?Whenever my drivers, house helps and security come back from their leave at home, I always asked them the state of things in their villages. Up till today…

Indeed, perilous times are here concerning this second wave of COVID-19 variant.It is almost a season of deaths. I have personally lost many loved ones, close friends and associates in the last two weeks. It’s unbelievable yet it’s TRUE…

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was in the news for all the wrong reasons in the year 2020. The agency that was established 20 years ago to bring development to the nine oil-bearing communities of the Niger Delta became an…

If you do not know the power of the Internet and those who control it, I suggest you research a UK high street shop called Primark.During the first #COVID19 lockdown, Primark went from being one of the most profitable UK retailers, with…

You keep screaming “Trump will go to jail! Trump will go to jail!”You even went as far as to boastfully proclaim that,“Trump is shameless and he will spend the rest of his life in prison!” and that “he’s fighting for his life, but…

I hate to see professors die. And in recent days, we have lost three of them to the strange ailment called COVID-19, currently ravaging the world.Within two weeks, we lost three professors in quick succession. Habu Galadima,…

We love scandals. By ‘’we’’ I mean both the dramatis personae in a scandal and the spectators sitting in judgment. Why would a superior at a workplace get entangled in a sexual congress with a subordinate if not driven by depravity and…

It is after midnight Nigerian time and we have just slipped into the 6th day of January 2021. Today is the “D-day” for America and the rest of the world and whatever happens later today will shape the collective fortunes of not just America…

Olusegun Adeniyi, who is a former spokesman to late President Umaru Yar'Adua, says he has tested negative for COVID-19, two weeks after announcing he tested positive alongside eight other family members.He made the disclosure on Twitter…

When the year 2020 popped out of the womb of time, nobody knew that it was going to be what Yoruba people call Ogbologbo. Rough and tough. Unpredictable. Hungry and angry, consuming anything and everything it could lay its jaws on.…

It is about time we started to set goals and objectives in this country. This will serve as a benchmark upon which performance can be assessed. I believe with commitment and sincerity of purpose we can take Boko Haram and Banditry,…