By Kunle Oyatomi NIGERIA IS with sad and disturbing tales. No thanks to eight years of lackadaisical approach to insecurity under the Buhari administration. For eight years, Nigeria’s security architecture, which had weakened under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, completely collapsed under the late President Muhammadu Buhari. Across the...
By Owei Lakemfa THE WORLD was in turmoil in the mid 2000s. Nature had visited humanity with one of the most devastating storms in contemporary times. Hurricane Katrina which made a landfall in New Orleans, United States, claimed 1,392 lives and displaced a million people. But if humans had no chance against such natural disasters, […]
By Babafemi Ojudu THERE WAS a time when this country walked tall, not because it was without problems, but because it possessed the will, the confidence, and the inner organs that responded to danger. Today, Nigeria staggers. Not in dramatic collapse, but in a slow, humiliating wobble, like a wounded giant searching desperately for a […...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE It was a surprise to me that Peter Ayodele Fayose, former governor of Ekiti state, invited former President Olusegun Obasanjo to his birthday bash! Trust me, Fayose must have been up to something, but as it turned out, Obasanjo, the wily fox himself, upended him! A miserable Fayose was then left with […]
By Olukorede Yishau ARUNDHATI ROY, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘The God of Small Things’, grew up in a land where sons got more than daughters. They got more education, more attention, more love, more money, more food and more inheritance. In short, more of anything and everything. In the India she was born, female […]
By Owei Lakemfa AS THE year 2025 rolls to a close, there are citizens of the United States planning, in the new year, to charge their country with genocide against its “Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples.” The Peoples’ Senate, one of the movements engaged in the “National Mobilisation Against Genocides”, declared that to mark the […]...
By Bola BOLAWOLE “Finally, finally, PDP has held Wike’s bull by the horns…” “You mean with his expulsion from the PDP by the factional PDP convention held in Ibadan?“ “You are partisan! The way you couched your question shows very clearly that you are on Wike’s side” “I don’t have to before asking questions! It […]...
By Bolanle BOLAWOLE MY PHONE rang and a professional colleague rained torrents of questions: “Assuming Nyesom Wike, the FCT minister, is a Northern Muslim, do you think Yerima would have responded to him the way he did?” “Assuming Yerima is a southerner or southern Christian, and the FCT minister is a northern Muslim, do you […]
By Babafemi Ojudu A LOT happens in Nigeria that, if you did not witness it yourself, you would swear it was impossible. Some events are so bizarre, so grotesque in their violation of common sense and morality, that even D.O. Fágúnwà’s magical adventures in Ìrìnkèrindò Nínú Igbo Elegbeje pale beside them. Yet these are not […]...
By Owei Lakemfa THE FEDERAL Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike made two errors of judgement in the incident involving the alleged property of Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, a former Chief of Naval Staff. These have given the leeway for military apologists, defenders of impunity, apostles of the law of the jungle and unfortunately, unsu...
