Opinions

In security matters, it is difficult to describe a planned event as phantom, because the men who create the events are likely to un-create it and put the uninitiated in a state of doubt, as it was in the much reported planned trip of President Goodluck Jonathan to Chibok.  When it was first announced, and […]

Your Excellency, Dr. President Jonathan, I am using this medium to urge you to urgently relocate and operate the seat of power from Borno State for a week.  You can then spend a week each in Yobe and Adamawa states. Demonstrate to Nigerians and the world that you are president of all parts of Nigeria, […]

Amid the crisis rocking the Northeast region by virtue of the Boko Haram insurgency, the pig-headed opposition by Northern leaders against the announced extension of emergency rule by President Goodluck Jonathan, which gravitated into outright display of animosity in the Senate and the National Conference Committee on Security, is a national embarrassment and pointer to […]

The request for the extension of the state of emergency in the northeast states tabled before the National Assembly by Goodluck Jonathan and sheepishly approved by the House of Representatives is clear indication that they have harkened to the misinformed call of the Southern Leadership Assembly and not the informed call by the North East […]

Exactly a year after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a “state of emergency” in north-eastern Nigeria, it seems to have had little effect in curbing the Islamist insurgency. Attacks by the Boko Haram group that provoked the move included an assault on a military barracks, detonating a bomb at a bus station in the northern […]

The allegation by the human rights watchdog, Amnesty International (AI) that Nigerian security forces failed to act on advance warnings about Boko Haram’s armed raid on the state-run boarding school in Chibok, which led to the abduction of over 234 schoolgirls on April 14, if true, is most embarrassing to Nigeria and President Goodluck Jonathan, […]

The yorubas in Nigeria sa Ọ̀nà ọ̀fun ò gba egungun ẹja. Meaning the throat cannot accommodate fish-bone.


One of my weaknesses is history, reason being that I often do not understand why we often either make light of it or refuse to learn from it. Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, and most populous black nation is at […]Read More

Nigeria is in trouble. Big trouble.  We are in a ship in turbulent waters with a big, ugly iceberg ahead of us and our captain is claiming not to see it.  Worse still, his crewmen are telling him that the road onward is clear.  That the next port of call, 2015, can be reached even […]

On 4th May 2014, Abubakar Shekau, the leader Boko Haram, proclaimed: “I am going to marry out any woman who is twelve years old, and if she is younger, I will marry her out at the age of nine. You are all in danger. I am the one who captured all those girls and will sell […]

Just when Nigerians thought the Nigerian police have hit the lowest ebb in its dereliction of duty, the police have managed to find a way into further depths of ignominy. In the wake of the global outrage and frustration over the government’s insensitivity and incompetence in rescuing the 234 abducted school girls in Chibok, Borno […]

Nigeria’s seeming inability to stem the rise of Boko Haram, a shadowy Islamist rebel insurgency, poses severe existential threats to Africa’s largest economy and democracy and to the continuation of President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency. This month’s kidnapping of 234 girls from a Northern Nigerian training school, where the girls were sitting exams, is only the […]

Now that the operational leadership and visible face of Boko Haram, in the person of the filth called Mr. Abubakar Shekau (aka Darul Tawheed), has finally admitted that they were responsible for the abduction of hundreds of our school girls and that they intend to ”sell them in the market like slaves”, it is pertinent and […]