Opinion

My phone vibrated. The number was unfamiliar. I picked, all the same, and the caller introduced himself as Mohammed Bello Adoke, “former attorney-general of the federation”. It was in March 2017, nearly two years after…

“The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.”—Charles de Gaule(1890-1970). It is not by human power but by the grace of…

By Umair Haque Today, we’re witnessing something remarkable in the world. A nation simply wilfully self-destructing. Economically, which leads to socially and culturally. What…

New things are happening at the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and suddenly, there’s a throwback to the 1996-1999 Lagos State, when the then Colonel Mohammed Buba Marwa was military administrator. Marwa took a…

I hear he had to run for kilometres to save his life from marauding killers. There has been so many stories around this incident trying to obfuscate the issue and politize it with the hope that its significance would…

In December 25, 2020, there was a report with the title “Makinde, insecurity is getting messier in Oyo State.” The piece piece was an adumbration…

I know Ilorin pretty well; that piously quiet, indeed, serene city where, when I lived there in the mid ‘70’s, you wont be served any alcoholic drink even right…

In 1935, Duke Ellington — God rest his soul — gave the world ‘In a Sentimental Mood’, one of the greatest jazz pieces ever. He composed it impromptu at a…

To say that global finance is currently skewed in a manner that allows tax abuses, corruption, and illicit financial flows (IFFs) to flourish would be stating the obvious. This is because of obvious gaps,…

Those who are younger than 55 or thereabouts may not easily get the joke in the expression, ‘We are all together,’ which I’ve chosen as headline of this piece today. The event…

The Yoruba liberation from the leprous hand of Northern domination is in ferment. The battle has taken the life of its own. The definers of the battle are unravelling day by day. Except we are blind as a…

In the tome of liberation struggles, a few names resonate infinitely. One name that rings trenchant to this day is Ernesto ‘’Che’’ Guevara. ‘’Che’’ envisioned a world as recreated in the dialectics of Karl Marx – where those in…

It would appear setting up state police in Nigeria is now a matter of “when” – not “if”. What started as a campaign championed solely by south-west political and opinion leaders at the dawn of this democracy has…

Even the most egregious and utterly deplorable religious and ethnic dimensions of the present farmer-herder crisis are ultimately symptomatic, not causative. It is…

In 2016, very early in the Muhammadu Buhari Presidency, it was time to open the Okota Palace Way-Mile 2-Amuwo Odofin-Festac link road, in Lagos…

What’s the use of the information recently provided by Oba of Lagos Rilwan Akiolu about how much money people described as hoodlums stole from his palace during the #EndSARS campaign last year? Did he expect public…

Nigeria is about two years away from the next presidential election, that is, the next precipice. Of course, with the epidemic of kidnappings, ransoming and ethnic-tinged killings, the country seems to be continually on…

Sadly, this story makes me laugh. A human rights activist shared with me an experience she had during a governorship election in one of the south-west…

It seems Governor Yahaya Bello is serious about his rumored interest to contest in the 2023 presidential elections. On March 03, 2021, he convinced the Amalgamated Union of Foodstuff and Cattle Dealers of Nigeria (AUFCDN) and the…

It was the end of an era Tuesday when Bunny Wailer, the last of the original Wailing Wailers passed away, aged 73. Bunny (original name Neville…

By Fredrick Nwabufo No region in Nigeria is a self-sufficient archipelago. None is more fortunate in human and material assets than the other. Each region has…

Chilling. I mean very chilling. I felt a shiver down my spine on Tuesday when I saw the video of “new” Niger Delta militants, with war weapons, threatening to bomb Abuja and Lagos because of the “underdevelopment” of the…

This week, the Nigerian Senate approved the nominated Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa as the new Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Mr.…

Let’s have a comic diversion today from weightier matters of our national life. Because what I want to discuss can only be comic, if not…