Fellow tenants in this mad-house called Nigeria, lend me your ears! Whether Cesar should be buried or praised, is Mark Anthony’s business. Mine is to unmask the epistemic plagues afflicting the Republic. I just heard...
“I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith…” (2 Timothy 4:7) When on December 7, 2019, news broke that Reinhard Bonnke, the German-born, world renowned evangelist, whose gospel...
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but...
Can infidelity go out of fashion? Having sex with someone who is not your wife, husband, boyfriend or girlfriend does not seem to be generating guilty feelings like many other moral vices. As censorious and judgmental...
The holler of “Happy New Year” is all over the place as the world is sending off the worst of years, that is, 2020, with all its baggage of Covid-19, EndSars and whatnot. The gilded invitation on my table came with all...
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers-Aristotle. In democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme...
Nigeria is in dire straits, and the government of the day is burying its head in the sand like a woebegone ostrich. It takes tremendous courage to speak truth to power, especially at this time when a self-righteous...
A few days ago, some youth groups in the Niger Delta region aired what they termed their resentment in the appointment of Mr Effiong Okon Akwa as Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by...
President Muhammdu Buhari’s popularity rating must be currently at its lowest ebb, consequent to the plethora of debilitating crisis situations his administration is being forced to grapple with. Sequel to a mishmash of...
Those who have seen the causative effects of thunder will refrain from taking part in abusing Sango—the King of Koso (Ẹni tí Ṣàngó bá tojú ẹ wọlẹ̀, kò ní bá wọn bú Ọba K’oso) – Yoruba axiom. “The...
As I lay back and watched the news last night on the developing events in Washington, DC, the best phrase to describe what I felt at that moment is “sustained disbelief”: sustained because the presidency of...
In October, 2020, Nigerian youths stormed the streets of some of Nigeria’s major cities in massive protests against police brutality and gross human rights abuses. In what became known as the #EndSARS protests, Nigerian...
The problem of insecurity and lawlessness has forever been with us in Nigeria. What is, however, particularly alarming about the new state of insecurity in the country is its pervasiveness. Bandits and terrorists are...
One of the reasons why Muhammadu Buhari was said to have ‘chosen’ Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, to be his running mate for president of Nigeria was that apart from being a respected lawyer, Yemi Osinbajo is also a pastor...