Opinion

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…

If you don’t know Ndubuisi (“Dele”) Udo, it is not your fault. The Nigerian police did not allow him to be great. As a teenage athlete in the 1970s, Udo was a collegiate champion at the University of Missouri in the…

Anyone who has followed testimonies (backed mostly by video evidence) from victims of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) knows it would take more than feeble press statements to change the orientation of those who…

SINCE the news of the emergence of Tokunbo Abiru as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming Lagos East Senatorial bye-election, some politicians in the state have been unsettled as…

We have seen the allegations circulating on social media as well as the online reports of the court summons of which we are yet unaware. The fact is that Dapo Apara began making his…

“A good teacher is like a candle-it consumes itself to light the way for others,” said Turkish statesman, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. And that is what teachers in Nigeria had been…

As ordinary Nigerians await the 2023 dateline for general elections, permutations over who will succeed Muhammadu Buhari as President of Nigeria seems to have commenced.…

WE concluded on this page last week that efforts at resolving the national question through constitutional negotiations like statesmen ended with the British-midwifed 1958 Independent Constitution.  Every other…

Most of us, journalists –especially the cub, street reporters- are like duck hunters. We are the human version of skilled predators in the wild, if you like. But when we get too fainthearted, especially before…

Mr. Eniola Bello, also known by the popular sobriquet, Eni-B, is one of the finest prose stylists and perhaps compelling political analysts in contemporary Nigerian journalism. His skills in this regard were on…

In my previous article, ahead of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day celebrations, I tried to examine the root of Nigeria’s divisive politicking. In what many saw as a sacrilegious criticism…

As Nigeria marks her 60th Independence Anniversary, a significant part of the discourse will centre on national development, President Muhammadu Buhari himself, and to some extent, his team. It has been some five…

Have you heard the news? I’m sure you have. But just in case you haven’t, here’s the news on the hour: After 33 years, the 326 Km Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Rail Line and Ancillary Facility Yard has been commissioned for…

As we mark the 60th Anniversary Day, the record-setting, mega roadways infrastructure development projects by the Buhari administration numbering up to 600 that are…

At 60, Nigeria has not quite lived its promising, post-Civil War re-set at 10.  Nor did it at 10, collapse in unbridled catastrophe, as the omens were at 5. At independence in October 1960, the first ruling…