Opinions

It was to Nigeria’s utter embarrassment that the world woke up to learn Nigerian Senators were contemplating a bill that will censor free speech, particularly on social media, and punish critics of the government, including lawmakers, renowned for their jumbo salaries and corruption. This bill is an ignominious and reprehensible act of violence against free […]

…the 8th Senate is afraid Nigerians became aware last week of a draft bill to “Prohibit Frivolous Petitions and Other Matters Connected Therewith” As at the time Nigerians were becoming aware of it, the bill had passed second reading. This means that the bill is on a fast track to becoming a law in Nigeria. The author […]

It is certainly incongruous and unacceptable in a country ravaged by corruption and impunity for public officials to act as if they are above the law. It is disheartening that the Buhari Administration has so early given Nigerians reasons to cast it in the mold of a regime without respect for the rule of law. […]

A day after the present set of Ministers took oath of office, Nigerians took to twitter to recommend books they think will be of use to them and provide necessary knowledge and guidance suitable for the discharge of their various assignments. Tolu Ogunlesi initiated the idea with the tag: #ReadingListNG, and a request that the […]

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in 1948, states that: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Also, Chapter IV section 39 of […]

The National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and Former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said good leadership is the key to unlocking the economic potentials of Africa. The political leader said this while delivering his remarks at the formal launch of the Centre for African Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CAEL) and […]

Even as global attention focused on the Islamic State (ISIS) and its horrific attacks in Paris that claimed no fewer than 130 lives, reports that Boko Haram has captured the infamous title of the world’s deadliest terrorist group should be a reminder to the Commander-in- Chief, his forces, and Nigerians that we now have a […]

It is now just over two weeks since the President swore in his newly appointed ministers and assigned portfolios to them. With that , the six-month long wait for the constitution of the  Federal Executive Council and the criticisms that trailed it came to a close.  What next then for the regime?  The common unsolicited […]

The first thing that caught my eye was the fact that Prince Abubakar Audu had an EFCC case from 2003 still hanging over his head. It reminded me of a discussion I had once with a possible PhD supervisor about the concept of Rule of Law. I told him, it does not exist in Nigeria. […]

The decision by the Federal Government to offer another bailout to enable bankrupt States to clear workers’ salary arrears and other recurrent expenditure is a national embarrassment which points to a democracy that is not working. The unacceptable anomaly which has turned the states into beggars and the FG as Father Christmas should not be […]

Aung San Suu Kyi writes in Letters from Burma:  “I have never ceased to be moved by the sense of the world lying quiescent and vulnerable, waiting to be awakened by the light of the new day quivering just beyond the horizon…”  That new day and awakening arrived on November 8 on Burma’s (Myanmar) 2015 […]

After over five months of tortuous delay, President Muhammadu Buhari finally inaugurated the Federal Executive Council. The unduly long nomination and screening process was unnecessarily politicized, but the expectation of Nigerians is understandably high. Before last Wednesday’s cabinet inauguration, Buhari had been described as clueless, having only integrity without grit; some even said he was […]