The #EndSARS protests which lasted for about two weeks until the crisis in Lagos on October 20, 2020, now known as the Black Tuesday in Nigeria's contemporary history, may have abated, with the disappearance from Nigerian streets of the...
The year 2020 has been a very complicated one for Nigeria and the world-afflicted with the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic that has claimed its fair share of victims in Nigeria and involving severe socio-economic devastation as governments locked down societies;...
The viciousness and desperation with which Nigerians went about looting ware houses containing food items meant to help the poor cope with the Covid-19 induced hardships, reflect the frightening rate of hunger in Nigeria.
And it is evidence of the...
In Nigeria, issues often take an ethno-religious dimension and that appears to be the case with the aftermath of the End SARS protest. In many parts of the country, the crisis has degenerated into religious conflicts. The End SARS...
Stephen Hawking was a phenomenal academic who spent over two-third of his length of life on Wheelchairs as a physically challenged of unfathomable scientific dimension. He suffered from infirmity that is rare and which affected his sense of speech....
It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
Just as Martin Luther King Jr. has put it: _The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in...
The End SARS protest has provided some food for thought, and some material for critical reflection. It is pertinent to explore how critical thinking can be applied to the EndSARS movement in Nigeria. This protest has been a defining...
There is an agenda to violence -- the state's agenda. The biggest beneficiary of violence in most cases is the government which controls every apparatus of terror. Nothing happens in isolation of executive conspiracy. The infamous connoisseur of terror,...
The recent wave of civic consciousness which is blowing across Nigeria, in spite of the gust of sabotage and betrayals that it has chalked up, fits into a harbinger of nationhood for the Nigerian State. If the #ENDSARS triggers...
The Nigerian youths are angry and have poured into the streets in several states of Nigeria to display their anger in protests. For about two weeks now, the youths have continued their street protests demanding for the authorities to...