Opinion

You do not catch fish in anger... Sometime next week I would be one of the keynote speakers at an event with the broad topic Youth and politics, my section would deal with Youth and Identity Politics, in search of...

It is obvious that Nigerians are groaning in economic agony. Daily they keep marching, ‘suffering and smiling’ with so much anguish in their hearts. The gap between the rich and poor in Nigeria has widened so much that we...

Where actually is this government taking Nigerians to? All sorts of increments have now become the order of the day. Meanwhile, nothing serious is being done to arrest the unprecedented sleaze and incessant corruption in the system especially in...

If there is anything that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven beyond doubt, it is how humanity depends on science for its survival. Every confounding development that has been thrown up by nature or biology since the days of the...

It is no more a saying but a historical fact that the Privileged Class that prevented Peaceful Change against a system that was rigged against them, made a Revolution inevitable. No reasonable people want to see riots, carnage and...

Life may not seem to matter to many or some, until they happen to be seeing or standing next to the dead. The dead is not sleeping, resting, or temporality unavailable, but gone, left, out and over. It is not a...

These uprisings will bring out the beast in us... Fela Anikulapo Kuti. So while I was at the gym I was talking with my wife, she revealed that she had lost sleep because of a friend that offended her, the...

PRESENTATION AT A SYMPOSIUM ORGANISED BY NILDS ON 10TH NOVEMBER, 2020 1. INTRODUCTION It has been recognized all over the world that democracy is the best form of government. Democracy is so important in the world today that it has become...

Bigotry. We are big on it. To inflame passions and to smoke out the most reticent of Nigerians, flagellate the tempers of religion and ethnicity. Yes, then you will see the beast behind the mask. The mute compels speech...

A lot has happened in the past month in Edo State, Nigeria and the globe. The dusts of some of the occurrences naturally settled in the gale of laughter, shock, unbelief and outrage. Others are still reverberating on individuals, families,...