Opinions

The ongoing crisis in the Ondo State House of Assembly rooted in the bid to remove the Deputy Governor, Agboola Ajayi, who defected from the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has once again highlighted the incontrovertible diagnosis that there can be no democracy without democrats. The crisis […]

After five years as the public face of the federal government’s anti-graft crusade, the suspension and arrest of Ibrahim Magu, acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who is being investigated for corruption is a major blight on the toga of President Muhammadu Buhari’s war on corruption that reinforces public perception that […]

Since it is now more than crystal clear that Pastor Chris Oyakhilome, founder of LoveWorld International and Christ Embassy Ministries, cannot set any limit to his own excesses and self-indulgent eccentricities, it is incumbent on the Nigerian government, to urgently do so, and rein him in. In the last few weeks, the world has been […]

  The chaos and dramatic turn of events in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) following the political sacrilege by the Screening and Appeal Committees of the Edo governorship primary which disqualified the incumbent Governor, Godwin Obaseki, is a sad commentary on the character of Nigerian politicians and underscores the bastardization of democracy to have […]

THE Yoruba folk tale reminds one of Godwin Obaseki and his court jesters. It is about a swaggering elephant and the choir behind him. They tickle him with their songs of praise, the drum rolls and the dances. His head dizzy, he feels like deity in the confetti of flattery. The elephant swings right and […]

While Nigerians are busy with the management of COVID-19 and its many fall-outs, fire has been burning in other aspects of national life which require equal attention both now and after COVID-19 – the increasing spate of insecurity in the country is one, the crisis in the country’s electricity sector is another, but COVID-19 is […]

“I don’t know any city in America which does not have issues of police brutality or overaggressive policing against black people; who reflexively say their last prayers whenever they encounter white police officers; afraid they might not be alive after the encounter. Why do I have to feel this way? Why can’t I just be […]

Try as much as you can, you won’t place a finger on what the aim of the strange opposition that emerged in Nigeria in 2015 takes as its purpose. Full of bile, anger, pettiness and outright mischief, it is difficult to discern the mission of this opposition. It has become difficult for the current opposition […]

Reports that some top aides of President Muhammadu Buhari have been denied access into the Presidential Villa in Abuja, after returning from the burial of the late Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, is certainly no complimentary news. The burial at Gudu Cemetery, Abuja, was attended by hundreds of mourners, who failed […]

With the prevailing existential threat and grim economic crisis terrorizing the world in the wake of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the sixth year anniversary of the kidnapping of the Chibok school girls passed without much fanfare and national recrimination. The fact that no official statement was made is one embarrassment too many for […]

Conspiracy theorists are funny people. They usually make something out of nothing. Theirs is to cook scenarios from conjectures, guesses and speculations and breathe life into it, fix it with limbs and make it to walk. Often conspiracy theories are built on lies, stark lies and deliberate mischief. They are often moulded in the asinine […]

The resurrection of Jesus Christ which was celebrated last Sunday is the miraculous event from which Christianity draws its essence. For Christians the world over, Easter Sunday is the manifestation of the power of life over death, the triumph of good over evil, the victory of light over darkness, and the conquest of love over […]