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The hypocrisy of the south-east
The hypocrite minimises his own flaws and makes allowances for imperfections while homing in on and exaggerating the problems of another. We have an even distribution of hypocrites among all sections of the country. But…
Lekki Toll Plaza: CNN Faces Test Of Integrity
The morning after the night when protesters at Lekki toll gate were supposedly massacred by the Nigerian Army, the BBC News hour programme interviewed Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu around 6am on whether he invited…
The essential Buhari: NNPC GMD’s testimony
On Friday last week, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, Group Managing Director of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), help an engagement with energy editors across diverse media…
Why It Is Wrong To Draw Parallels Between Trump And Mugabe
On November 6, after a speech by Donald Trump in which he baselessly claimed the 2020 US presidential election was fraudulent, ABC journalist, Leigh Sales…
In defence of Lai Mohammed
I sympathise with Lai Mohammed, our very resourceful Minister of Information but a victim of President Buhari’s self-inflicted crisis of…
Help! Crude oil is dying!
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…
Trump executing coup against American democracy
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…
Shall we beg the police?
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…
How Fani-Kayode Knows A ‘Jezebel’!
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…
#EndSARS: Questions for Pastor Sam Adeyemi
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…
God save America!
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…
Biden win: America returns to normality
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…
EndSARS protest: youths making a grave mistake
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…
What #EndSARS mayhem tells us about Nigeria
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…
EndSARS crusade and our ill-prepared youths
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,…
A timely warning for Trump supporters by ‘Mr. Anonymous’ Miles Taylor
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…
Republicans: The undoing of Donald Trump
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…
America’s election will reveal who Americans really are
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…
2023: Will Tinubu fight or run away?
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,…
Tragic End Of EndSARS
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,…
#EndSARS: Picking up the pieces
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…
Let Tinubu Be…..
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.…
#EndSARS Protests: Before we lose the plot
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…
Is #EndSARS Nigeria’s tipping point?
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…