Category: Opinion

By Elizabeth Ogunwale Sometimes it is  the smallest decisions that can change your life forever. This is not to say that the biggest doesn’t but that the smallest decisions which you had no high hopes for could turn tables around. In recent time, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has gained both popularity and […]

By Martins Oloja ‘What Did Buhari Hear Loud And Clear?’ Since the first part of this article, on November 1, 2020 a lot of water has gone under our already rickety bridge of #EndSARS protest and the curious election stalemate in the United States. Since then, there have been some manifestations of other curiosities on […]

By Simon Kolawole Any hopes that we are going to quickly move on from the tragic #EndSARS protests and enter into the phase of reconstruction and rehabilitation are disappearing by the day as the federal government closes in on the promoters and supporters of the mass action. A lawyer who actively supported the protests was […]

Prominent northern leaders, including top Federal Government officials, state governors, and political, traditional and religious leaders, gathered in Kaduna State recently to reflect on the state of the nation on the heels of the #EndSARS protests. In a communiqué read by the Governor of Plateau State and Chairman of the Northern Governors’ Forum, Simon Lalong, […]

By Kennedy Eborka Nigerians are still trying to recover from the woes of the historic ENDSARS protests that rocked the country about two weeks ago. The protests, mainly by young people, spread and resonated across all parts of the country, defying ethnic and religious differences which often play pranks with Nigeria’s unity and subvert her […]

Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle on Sunday said dialogue with bandits was still relevant just as he secured the release of 26 minor Katsina State girls from bandits without the payment of any ransom. The girls who were kidnapped by bandits in the Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State were brought into the bushes […]

By Martins Oloja It is logical to suspend the discussions on ‘#EndSARS and the power of truth’ as promised last week because there is a weightier matter of lessons from the power of strong institutions over strong men in a democracy – in the United States of America. There have been unexpected developments in ‘America, […]

By Samuel Oluwole Ogundele Good governance especially at the national level, is an intricate interplay of combined operations involving the leadership, the led, and to a limited extent, the international community. The full significance of any component of this experience, can only be understood, appreciated, and appropriated in relation to the whole. The world is […]

By Martins Oloja Not even the build-up to the United States elections on Tuesday this week can take any steam out of the deconstruction of the epochal #EndSARS campaign. As state actors and we the people are still ruminating over and smarting from the rebellion by the youth and curious ambush by drafted hoodlums who threatened to pollute […]