Opinion

I sympathise with Lai Mohammed, our very resourceful Minister of Information but a victim of President Buhari’s self-inflicted crisis of…

Do you remember when your mechanic advised you not to buy a car with automatic transmission? If you recall, he said manual cars were the best — easier and cheaper to maintain. What he didn’t tell you was that…

The last few weeks of the Trump Presidency may prove to be the most dangerous of all. Instead of conceding, or throwing in the towel, or giving up, he’s doubling down. On a coup. All…

For the police, the #ENDSARS Protests were a rude reawakening. Never before had the police which style themselves as friends of the people witnessed such a challenge to their…

Prior to the controversial presidential poll of last November 3 this year in the United States of America one of the dramatic events that stunned not a few folks came from Nigeria, my beloved homeland. Some members of…

Romans 13:1-2 says: “Obey the government, for God is the One who has put it there. … There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So…

My favourite comedians are Bovi and Okey Bakassi. Governor Benedict Ayade of Cross River state and Hon Gudaji Kazaure are also gifted entertainers. Their theatrics are primed to calm your nerves. But the real deal in…

The world was exultant yesterday as Joe Biden of the Democratic Party won the United States presidential election defeating President Donald Trump of the Republican Party…

The lack of definable leadership for last month’s EndSARS protest did not just make it difficult for the authorities to bribe or intimidate the inspirers of the protest, as some of the youths claimed on social…

Years ago, as we were driving through some Lagos streets early morning on a weekday, we saw idle young men sitting in front of their houses, some with wrappers surrounding their waists and toothbrushes dangling from their…

With seasonal exodus of our educated youths to the Americas and Europe, migration of our most talented to the more rewarding creative industry and the rest obsessed with European football teams,…

Miles Taylor, former chief of staff in the Department of Homeland Security has come out to claim a critical OP-ED on President Donald Trump, published two years ago by New…

For President Donald Trump, charity does not begin at home. In 2016, he was the new kid off the block. His race against Hillary Clinton was pretty much a Republican versus Democrat party contest and even though…

Every historic, crucial election isn’t really just a referendum on the candidates. Just as much, or often more so, it’s a referendum on a society. On a people. On what kind of people make up a society. Are they…

With a trap-like mouth comprising 80 spiky teeth, death is the smile on the face of an adult crocodile. In a dramatised circus that pledged to protect lives, limbs and fatherland, the Nigerian military, on Saturday,…

It was doubly tragic that the EndSARS protests spearheaded by youths that began in this country on a peaceful note and quickly extracted concessions from the government later degenerated into shootings, ugly riots,…

How can a peaceful protest end up with killing and maiming, burning and looting in a matter of days? For those of us who have seen plenty “peaceful” protests in our lives, it…

I don't know why those from South-east and south-south where Tinubu did not rule as governor are those that abuse Tinubu most whenever his name is been mentioned.…

Even as #EndSARS—a nationwide campaign against police brutality in Nigeria—enters Day 12, some still consider it as “misdirected” and “futile.” But I disagree. I believe that…

The youth uprising against police brutality in Nigeria has taken many by surprise. Conventional wisdom is that the youth are more likely to dance at a concert than sing a protest song. Events of the last couple of weeks…

Power has returned to its rightful repository – the people. Our liberators did not come from the north, the south or the east and west of Nigeria. They…

The generation X and Z on twitter finally showed it could do more than bark. It is deviating from the norm, going beyond bantering and joking about the ills of Nigeria and finally using…

The Nigeria Police has had a rugged past and the picture we see in the present does not give us a hope for the future. Since 1999, the Nigeria Police strength has grown from 112,000 to a little…

I cast my ballot in the 2020 United States General Election last Friday, some four weeks ahead of the official Election Day, November 3. It took me seven uneventful minutes.  I lined…