Opinion

“…the responsibility to retrieve Nigeria from the claws of these criminal elements belongs to everyone. And time seems to be running out.” By Olusegun Adeniyi Disturbing videos are making the rounds on WhatsApp. As Boko Haram insurgents invade a northern town with their armoured vehicles, they are being hailed by young …

The Nobel Laureate urged the Federal Government to seek assistance in the face of its apparent helplessness to curb the trend. Following the killing of three kidnapped students of Greenfield University by bandits in Kaduna, as well as rising insecurity and violence across the country, Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka has …

When a leader is known to be at front line of the battle, members of the opposition (or rebels) will deliberately cause problems that will escalate knowing fully well that he will be at the fore front. If they recruit 20,000 fighters; 10,000 will be assigned to face his army …

Under the current administration, Nigerians have seemingly become accustomed to unusual, absurd, unrealistic, shocking, disturbing, and mentally draining news. From how snake swallowed JAMB funds, to how rats took over the office of the President, the unending list of fictitious news has become accepted by Nigerians, even as we expect …

Two ‘heavyweight’ books will be publicly presented in Nigeria today, one in Lagos and the other in Abuja. I have read both. In Abuja, the combined forces of Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Mr Tony Elumelu, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, Prince Arthur Eze, Hajiya Bola Shagaya and Mr Femi Otedola will present ‘Aisha …

“…Muslim women have been socialized to see the hijab as the definitive sartorial assertion of their Muslim identity. Perhaps precisely because of this fact, the hijab now stirs negative emotions in so many Christians.” In my home state of Kwara, which used to be proverbial for its peaceableness and inter-religious …

“If Nyako and people who think like him have any conscience left, let them raise a voice against the current politics of deceit, the mismanagement of our diversity and the scourge of insecurity now undermining the very basis of our national survival.” On 16th April 2014, the Northern Governors Forum …

“While COVID-19 may have brought awareness of the certainty of death and our mortality, many societies have used that awareness as a pathway to clarify purpose and advance public good. This has not happened in Nigeria..” Last night in Ilorin, Kwara State, I attended the posthumous 72nd birthday of Prof. …

On March 2, 2021, Peoples Gazette, the gutsy online newspaper that has now become famous for meticulously evidence-based muckraking, reported that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is now AGF Abubakar Malami’s dutiful poodle, requested the Code of Conduct Bureau to furnish it with former Lagos State governor …

“Biden’s symbolic repudiation of the Buhari regime is an acknowledgement that he knows what Nigerians know: that they have no president, that their country has gone to the dogs..” It is by now evident that although President Joe Biden appreciates and identifies with Nigerians (certainly in more ways than Donald …