Opinion

OPINION: NOT TOO YOUNG TO RULE, BUT

You can't stay young forever. But, you can be immature for your entire life. Life is tactfully in these four phases You believe in Santa Claus. You don't believe in Santa Claus. You are Santa Claus. You look like Santa...

OPINION: GCFR: WHY MKO WOULD HAVE DECLINED IT WERE HE STILL ALIVE 

The past few days have witnessed choruses of commendations to the ‘converted-democrat’ and the sitting Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCFR), President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) who has decided to honour the ‘presumed winner’ of June 12, 1993 elections,...

OPINION: EKITI 2018: TRICKS FAYOSE TEACHES ELEKA

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -Abraham Lincoln I have no problem with Dr. Kolapo Olusola Eleka as a person. He is a brilliant chap. Until he was...

OPINION: END SARS TODAY, ANOTHER POLICE CRIMINAL GANG WILL REPLACE IT 

The 'End SARS Campaign' is a shot in the air. The campaign is a combustion of citizens' frustration without galvanised action. It is a right cause with a hollow purpose. Police brutality and criminality predate SARS. I remember, in the...

OPINION: “JUST DO GOOD”: A JUNE 12 STORY

I used to have a friend we called Alhaji Bashy. He was not a Muslim. No. But he called himself Alhaji Bashy, even if that was not his real name. You want to know his real name? It was...

OPINION: OF ANNIVERSARIES, SPEECHES AND HOLLOW RITUALS

Birthdays, wedding anniversaries, commemorations, heroes’ day, remembrance days, etc. are rituals that dot man’s life since time immemorial. These are days which effect cannot be underestimated. They pep people up, fire the energies of people once more for a greater...

OPINION: POLITICS, RELIGION AND THEATRICS OF JUNE 12

June 12, 1993 was the day eligible Nigerians trooped out in their numbers to choose between the late M.K.O. Abiola of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP) and Alhaji Bashir Tofa of the defunct National Republican Convention (NRC) who...

OPINION: JUNE 12 RECOGNITION; ABIOLA’S CANONIZATION AS BUHARI’S TSUNAMI

President Muhammadu Buhari is not a run-of-the mill politician steeped and mired in the wired acrobatics of political gerrymandering. He is certainly not a politician of the Nigerian pigmentation. His exceptional politics is rooted in the military discipline that...

OPINION: DON’T CONDONE PROJECTED INFERIORITY COMPLEX FROM ANY RACE

There are so many myths out there, one of which is that no matter how uneducated and ignorant a white person is, he still thinks he is superior to blacks. No, that is totally false. Most of those are...

OPINION: IMPEACHMENT AS AN ASS

When, on Tuesday (June 5, 2018), the Senate and the House of Representatives curiously convened their first-ever joint executive session since the advent, in 1999, of the national assembly to discuss the security situation in the country, it was...