Opinions

In all my years of reading articles written by some of the very finest in this noble profession called journalism, two articles are stuck in my brain like the hair planted on the scarf of the head. The first of these TWO articles….WHY I WILL NOT FORGIVE MY TEACHER, was written many years back by […]

The needless controversy over the installation of former central bank governor, Lamido Sanusi as new emir of Kano was avoidable if the Presidency demonstrated the maturity and stately comportment required of persons, who by authority and common trust are supposed to be the epitome of civility. Given the frosty relationship between Sanusi and President Goodluck […]

In a few days time, the people of Ekiti State will be going to the polls in South West Nigeria. The process leading to these elections offers important lessons for the rest of Nigeria and indeed for many other parts of the continent. At stake here are two sets of tendencies: one concerns the values […]

Every major anniversary celebration has become a ritual in chronicling all that has failed in Nigeria. Year after year, things continue to go from bad to worse. Lamentations are, therefore, not just inadequate, but inappropriate for a time like this. On the 21st anniversary of the June 12, 1993 presidential election adjudged the freest and […]

Throughout history and throughout the world, some names have become synonymous with wickedness and negativity.  Some names are only famous for their notoriety.  Joseph Mbu, the current Commissioner of Police in Abuja, seem to want to haul himself into this league. Mr Mbu has been cultivating the negative side of things for quite some time.  […]

When the history of the present rulers of Nigeria is written, one of the episodes that would certainly go to the dark pages of history is the eccentric onslaught on the Nigerian media commenced by the Nigerian soldiers last Friday in which the newspaper distribution centre in Abuja was autocratically shut down while thousands of […]

The January 8, 2014 edition of Punch newspaper revealed the secret and vicious agenda of All Progressives Congress (APC), a claim which had been substantiated by an Islamic cleric, Yusuf Garba, and the Religious Equity Promotion Council which exposed the plot by the APC to balkanise the 36 states of Nigeria including Federal Capital Territory, […]

The recommendation by the national conference that legislators at both national and state levels should function on a part-time basis to drastically reduce the cost of governance, is another vindication of those who accuse Nigerian leaders of being excessively wasteful and insensitive to the deplorable condition of the citizens. It is also a pointer to […]

Ever since I left Almajiri United they have been abusing me and getting their Haramite footsoldiers to attack me in the newspapers and on the social media.  If I was never of any value to them and they never trusted me why the loud lamentations, the open aggression, the anger, the bitterness and the tears […]

There seems to be no end to the sorrow, tears and blood flowing in the country. While the government claims to be doing the best it can to end the carnage, the killing of over two hundred Nigerians by Boko Haram insurgents, following several similarly gruesome killings in the past, has reinforced the palpable despair […]

Never mind the barefaced denial from Dr. Reuben Abati, Presidential Spokesman that the Commander-In-Chief, President Goodluck Jonathan, did not offer the Islamist group, Boko Haram, amnesty. On democracy day, we heard the speech of the Minister of Youth Development, Mr. Boni Haruna, loud and clear, and should anyone be in doubt, here are his words, […]

When Nigerians spoke up about insecurity in the North, they were labelled detractors; when the opposition party and concerned leaders spoke up, they characterized them as power hungry, Islamists fundamentalists and exponents of janjaweed ideology. When the international media did, they were termed APC opposition collaborators, apologists or even pawns. When Hilary Clinton did, she […]