Category: Opinion

By Simon Kolawole Years ago, as we were driving through some Lagos streets early morning on a weekday, we saw idle young men sitting in front of their houses, some with wrappers surrounding their waists and toothbrushes dangling from their mouths. They stared at us. Their faces instantly instilled the fear of God in me. […]

By Idris Mohammed Nigeria is a country of many wonders. The more you look at how things are being done the less you understand. Writing on Nigerian issues is very tedious, interesting and sometimes very annoying. This is because the country is changing like a chameleon. The more one tries to analyze or understand a […]

By James Eze I am one of those folks who feel that even in our well-known backwardness, certain things are best left the way they are. Things like the amazing otherness of Nollywood and Nigerian music. Things like the now famous Nigerian confidence and well… the cosmopolitan outlook of Lagos. I am incredibly fascinated by […]

By Kayode Komolafe If last Thursday’s broadcast by the President failed to fully capture the mood of the nation, the outcome of the National Economic Council (NEC) of two days ago seemed to be closer to a problem-solving approach. It is, therefore, more constructive to read the NEC statement as a useful complement to the […]

By Ikenna Kamalu “Our country is an abiku country. Like the spirit-child, it keeps coming and going. One day it will decide to remain. It will become strong.” – Ben Okri The Nigeria-Biafra civil war of 1967-1970, the multiple rashes of political and religious upheavals since independence, the Boko Haram insurgency, the banditry in the northern […]

By Luke Onyekakeyah The turmoil, looting, and anarchy that engulfed Nigeria in the wake of the #EndSARS protests in Lagos and across Nigeria have re-enforced the burning desire by Nigerians to see an end to mass poverty and suffering that have become the lot of the citizenry. The protests underscored the urgent need for a change […]

By Adewale Adeoye In the past few days, the history and security of Nigeria have been drastically put to test. We have experienced three days of rage that nearly shook the country to its foundation. The justifiable #EndSARS campaign was launched following a video shot by a young man in Delta State after reports of […]

A protester holds up a home-made Nigerian flag with the date October 20, 2020 written on it at a rally outside the Nigerian High Commission in central London on October 25, 2020, in support of protesters in Nigeria demonstrating against police brutality. – Peaceful demonstrations against police brutality erupted in Nigeria on October 8 and […]

By Azuka Onwuka The looting, arson and killings that occurred in Nigeria last week as a reaction to the shooting of the peaceful #EndSARS protesters in Lekki area of Lagos were shocking, disgraceful and demoralising. Most importantly, they were avoidable. If Nigeria had a purposeful and proactive leader, they would never have happened. Anybody who […]

People take the metal sheets off the roof of a warehouse during a mass looting of a warehouse with COVID-19 food palliatives that were not given during lockdown to relieve people of hunger, in Jos, Nigeria, on October 24, 2020. Ifiok Ettang / AFP There is no gainsaying the fact that the nationwide protest with […]