Opinion

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...

There was a deafening demand that president Muhammadu Buhari needed to address the nation as matter of urgency in relation to the ENDSARS protest; the permutation was that addressing the nation's youths who have been on the street protesting...

There is no gainsaying the fact that there is general dystopia in the land. Those who choose not to agree do so either due to party loyalty, blind following, or for other atavistic reasons. I doubt if any mortals...

"Sai Baba!" "Sai Baba!!" The youth chanted on the street as they campaigned for Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 thinking they had met their political-Moses who would give them a better life; a change from the miserable one they were...

The past couple of days have been a shock to the system. The youths of southern Nigeria (long oppressed by the Nigerian police force) decided to congregate and protest against the abuse perpetrated by officers of the police. Their...

It is normal to posit that every Nigerian wants a better country even when we differ about the route to that destination. It is time to find a common ground and build peace on the basis of justice. The...