Opinions

In a recent intervention on the illegal deportation of beggars and the destitute by Lagos, Anambra and some other state governments, I demanded for a new urban renewal policy that provides adequately for the rehabilitation and resettlement of all displaced people in the beautification of state capitals. The demand is anchored on the fundamental rights […]

The turn of events which saw the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), broke into two major factions during its mini-convention last weekend, in Abuja, is disgraceful and totally condemnable, to say the least. The rancorous and highly distracting event saw the PDP squander a historical opportunity to deepen and expand the frontiers of democracy in […]

It has now become an all-too-familiar spectacle: a governor falls sick and is hospitalized and the entire state goes to the hospital bed with him; the governor travels abroad for whatever reason; and the state is checked-in with his luggage. When the carousel malfunctions, the people’s destiny, of course, languishes in airport storage. This would […]

For more than eight weeks now, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike action to press home their demand for implementation of 2009 agreement with federal government, which borders on funding and conditions of service. The strike has, expectedly, paralyzed almost all activities in Nigerian universities. There is no special need to […]

Did you read the article by Tim Newmann entitled End of an Assignment that clinically analysed how the system works in Nigeria just from a Lagos point of view? Well, I did over the weekend and found myself shaking my head to what the British expatriate oil worker catalogued as some of the problems with […]

You must have read about Daniel Ihekina, the   stowaway kid on the Arik flight from Benin to Lagos over the weekend and how such an incident could happen in one of our airports.  After trying to draw a graphic picture of the scenario, I kept pondering all night: what was on this chap’s mind? How […]

The leader of the most violent faction of the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau may be dead, again. But the credibility of the claim by the Joint Task Force (JTF), that Shekau died of gunshot wounds he sustained in a cross fire with Special Military Operation Forces (SMOF) at the Sambisa Games Forest […]

The threat to academic stability in the nation’s ivory towers because of the current strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has attracted headlines in the dailies. The media has also been awashed by many criticisms, most of which have been directed at the Federal Government in which President Jonathan is the representational […]

I do not go to the courts regularly. Usually my routine makes it almost unnecessary to be there though l have always known that the courts are more of a sacred place and why not? There, the law is assumed to hold sway and like the saying goes, the ‘Law is blind’ and it is […]

First, I congratulate Blessing Okagbare, who won Nigeria’s two medals at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow. They were our first since she was a baby.  Team Nigeria limped home last Tuesday, our collective collapse somewhat ameliorated by her individual brilliance. Kenya, by contrast, had 12 medals, five of them gold; Jamaica nine, six […]

Some stories are best told straight. In a season of the absurd, Delta State joined the inglorious band of perfidy following reports that the entire Delta State House of Assembly, to which was added an unknown number of aides and hangers-on, including mistresses,  abandoned the business for which they were elected and were sojourning in […]

With Buhari’s recent announcement to contest the 2015 presidential elections, his cantankerous online supporters and other diehard Buharimaniacs have been reenergized in their strident campaign to market him as the best presidential candidate. The General’s sycophants want us to believe corruption is Nigeria’s number one problem, and Buhari is the solution.   They are dead […]