Category: Opinion

By Tunde Odesola Except for its motto and morality, there is hardly anything wrong with the Nigeria Police Force. If burnished in the furnace of grammar, the statement, “Police is your friend,” which is the motto of the Nigeria Police, is wrong because ‘police’ is a plural noun, and so, cannot legally coexist with ‘is’, […]

President Bola Tinubu What was once dismissed as a distant Northern crisis is slowly being entrenched into Nigeria’s economic heartland in the South-West. Kidnappings on highways once considered safe, attacks on farming communities, school invasions, violent incursions into forests, routine assaults on traditional rulers, and growing criminal networks exploiting porous interstate borders are evidence of […]

For the South-West, the long-feared spillover of Nigeria’s school-abduction crisis has now become a grim reality. On Friday, armed men who have terrorised other parts of the country struck brazenly in Oyo State, attacking three schools in Yawota and Esiele, Oriire Local Government Area. The assault left two people dead and saw pupils and teachers […]

By Funke Egbemode Some men are unlucky. All their wives brought to the ‘table’ are banging bodies and colourful sex styles. Husbands who are treated like beasts of burden. These are men who carry marriages on their heads like our grandmothers carried heavy pots of water from the village stream, one hand holding the load, […]

By Olusegun Adeniyi Despite Standing Rules practically exempting him from serving as a principal officer in the 8th Senate, the name of a certain Godswill Akpabio was announced in plenary as Minority Leader on 28th July 2015. Having left office as Akwa Ibom State Governor just a few weeks before, Akpabio had been nominated by […]

By Tunde Odesola ‘Money na water’ is a Gen Z slang echoing the whistling kettle on the stove of materialism. The slang is the hat on the head of the husky mannequin with a toothless smile. Viewed from the lens of today’s young generation, ‘money na water’ epitomises the vibe, ginger and swagger that adore […]

By Olusegun Adeniyi A crispy social media post is doing the rounds on WhatsApp. It begins with the story of Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s recent call for urgent investment in the power sector, stressing that Nigeria must design, fabricate and build what it consumes to achieve true economic independence. “We must build (the) power grids. I […]

It is another season of official violence in Nigeria, reinforced by the senseless and tragic killing of 28-year-old musician, Oghenemine Ogidi, by a police officer, Nuhu Usman, in Effurun, Delta State. The outrageous killing is not merely another grim headline; it is an indictment of a policing system that too often operates outside the bounds […]

On April 24, the life of an adopted girl-child was cut short in the most brutal and avoidable way in the Igando area of Lagos. Faith, 12, who should have been nurtured, protected, and given the chance to dream, instead died at the hands of those who were meant to be her guardians. Adopted at […]

On this auspicious international May Day, the plight of Nigerian workers remains as harrowing as it is pathetic, warranting more sober reflection. The working population is the engine room of a functional society that, in turn, should grease it for efficiency. In Nigeria, workers are hard done by the culpable, inefficient state that perpetually scorns […]