Opinion

OPINION: IGBO ETHNIC BIGOTRY AND HATE CAMPAIGNS WORRY ME

Ever since President Buhari won the 2015 Presidential elections he was destined to win having labored in 2003, 2007, 2011 and then 2015 a very vast preponderance of South South and South East indigenes have descended on the President,...

OPINION: CORRUPTION OF MASS DESTRUCTION

The humiliating daily headlines of corruption crisis stemming from treasury looting by public officials seems cruel to recall. It has been pushed over the ethical cliff by a healthy dose of fear. The corruption perpetrated by appointed and elected...

OPINION: ON BUHARI’S APPOINTMENT…MAKE I CAUSE TROUBLE

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I was driving the other day, and decided to have communion with the radio in the car, after scanning several stations and with lack of interest in the programs on the menu, I was stuck with one particular one...

OPINION: LET TOMPOLO’S GOD BE RETURNED

"If we were to lose indigenous African religions in Africa, then diviners would disappear, and if diviners disappeared, we would not only lose an important spiritual specialist for many Africans, but also an institution that for centuries has been...

OPINION: BURATAI AND THE LEVITY OF SUCCESS

I was reading through the news recently and I saw a news headline “ Army repels attack kills 16 Boko Haram members”, It got me thinking that we may have forgotten just so soon where we were only a...

OPINION: OF DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATIONS

Since some of us called for dialogue rather than the violence option in settling the Niger Delta question, I have watched with dismay as the issues are muddled up by those that should be responsible for bringing about peace...

OPINION: ISLAMISATION AGENDA, CHRISTIANISATION AGENDA AND “SATANIC AGENDA” IN OSUN

Sometime in 2006, the Ife University management, then led by Professor Michael Faborode, rusticated some Students’ Union leaders: Akinola Saburi (Malcom X), Ogunma Segun Adrew (Karl Marx), Taiwo Hassan (Soweto), Tunde Dairo (Barry Blacky) and others for politically-motivated reasons...

OPINION: MASKING FEAR WITH PUNISHMENT

The recent rise in the reported cases of law officers’ excessive use of force on minority members of the society is nothing new.  The perceived spike in such incidence is only due to the prevalence of social media and...

OPINION: THE YORUBA, IJAW AND FEDERALISM

The recent meeting between some Yoruba politicians in old and new Afenifere and some leaders of the Ijaw Nation has once again brought to the fore the limitations of the strategies being deployed in the quest for  True Federalism in...

OPINION: FORGERY CHARGE: SEPARATION OF POWERS, NOT SENATE, IS ON TRIAL

It is no longer news that the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami (SAN), has proffered forgery charges against the leadership of the Senate. Forgery is a very serious allegation. This presupposes that the accused persons in this...