Category: Opinion

IPOB Members Photo: Twitter In what seems a diversionary move from the nation-wide insecurity, the tottering Buhari administration took a swipe at the British government for considering the asylum applications of the hounded Indigenous People of Biafra partisans. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed had said the plan by the British government to […]

Too often, President Muhammadu Buhari has appeared – to citizens, commentators, and even his supporters – as too silent on burning national issues. The perception is not misplaced, going by his relative lack of reaction to multifarious incidents, including rabid insecurity plaguing the country, charges of ethnic cleansing and domination, as well as the recent […]

The upper house of the National Assembly, the Senate, the other day, alarmed the country over the deteriorating security of lives and property. It suddenly woke up to the reality apparent to even the ordinary citizens that the country is in a mess except saved by a dint of extra-ordinary act of brinkmanship. Senator Sani […]

President Muhammadu Buhari’s recent travel to the United Kingdom for a medical check-up has again raised concern, appropriately, over the poor state of the country’s healthcare system. The president returned to the country on Thursday, April 15, 2021, after spending two weeks abroad, and proceeded with business as usual, without any indication that anything was […]

By Martins Oloja As a spiritual person and a political analyst in this country with arrested development and where the god of the big man is his belly, I am persuaded that we should continue to thank God, the Almighty that Muhammadu Buhari, a soldier, a farmer, a politician and a Fulani big man won the […]

As the remains of social critic and human rights activist Yinka Odumakin is lowered onto Mother Earth tomorrow, the depleting human rights community would feel the absence of one of the fiercest critics of bad governance and official impunity since the renascent democratic dispensation that started in 1999. Odumakin, who until his death was the […]

By Reuben Abati Most of the politicians whose names have been mentioned in connection with Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential election, either as a hopeful or an aspirant would readily tell you it is too early to talk about the next election. Don’t buy that. They are lying. The race for the next Nigerian elections began immediately […]

By Ropo Sekoni The response of the Federal Government with the establishment of community policing even though desirable, is still considered inadequate because it is still controlled from the centre. Many Governors have registered this inadequacy by establishing their own security agencies to assist the police. There is no doubt, however, that until governors are […]

By Segun Gbadegesin Who is really rooting for national unity? I don’t mean enforcing. And I certainly don’t mean imposing. What’s the difference? Between 1967 and 1970, the Gowon military administration fought a civil war against secessionist Biafra. “To keep Nigeria one is a task that must be done” was the rallying battle cry. Biafra […]