Category: Opinion

By Ayo Olukotun Nigeria is a country stranded in dereliction, sleepwalking from one avoidable tragedy to another, never learning any lessons. Last Monday’s blasting of rail lines and subsequent attacks meted to passengers on the Abuja-Kaduna route, the second in six months, is a story of incompetence, muddle and ineptitude. As in previous tragedies, official […]

By Fola Ojo Alas, the weird wind is blowing in the atmosphere. Sometimes, it blows unbearably cold. Other times, it blows intolerably hot. It is the weird wind of Nigeria that always barrels fiercely when the Lord is about to do a new thing. Elections are around the bend. Around the bruising and beastly bend […]

By Ifeanyi Maduako The 2023 general elections are less than a year from now. With the recent conclusion of the All Progressives Congress national convention, where Alhaji Abdullahi Adamu was elected the national chairman of the party by consensus, activities for the 2023 elections have commenced in earnest. The election of Adamu as the national […]

By Luke Onyekakeyah With the declaration of the former Governor of Anambra State and former Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 general elections, Peter Obi, for the 2023 presidential elections, it is obvious that the coast is now clear for the Igbo to produce Nigeria’s president in the forthcoming 2023 […]

By Tayo Oke It is generally believed in Western democracies that elections have consequences, and in many instances they do. Take, for instance, the election of Boris Johnson, the Conservative British Prime Minister, in 2019, under the slogan, Get Brexit Done. Following a huge parliamentary majority, Brexit indeed happened and it has resulted in a […]

APC National Convention By Eze Onyekpere Nigeria’s current democratic experiment seems to be an exercise in defiance of democratic norms and principles. It appears to be one exercise where learning from the mistakes of the past and from monitoring and evaluation seems to be lacking. The idea of democracy imports the notions of freedom of […]

Reputed for its rich cultural heritage and intellectual pursuits, Ile-Ife, the cradle of the Yoruba ethnic nationality, has been assaulted. Uncouth and irresponsible, a mob, claiming to be “Ife natives” with “traditionalists” and masquerades in tow, invaded the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, and unleashed violence to protest the appointment of a new vice-chancellor. Those who […]

By Rasheed Ojikutu Ludicrous, bigoted, and immature are vocabularies that are too mild to label the show of indignity displayed by some ill-informed natives of Ile-Ife in their demand for the appointment of an indigene as the Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). It is indeed unfortunate that this is coming from a place […]

Recurring reports of Nigerians going missing and later found humiliated or maimed, killed in cold blood and mutilated are harrowing. The free reign of bestiality and complicit governance structure resonate louder in the case of Oluwabamise Ayanwole, who was killed right in the custody of supposed state’s protection! It is ludicrous that a state like […]

By Etim Etim I have read many articles and commentaries suggesting that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo should drop his presidential ambition in deference to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu. They argue that since it was Tinubu that gave Osinbajo his first political appointment as far back as 1999, an Osinbajo challenge will be tantamount to ”biting […]