Today, we swim in a sexualized world that is saturated with the murky waters of celebrating the mundane. There is…
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A few nostalgic types still believe that the Union Jack continues to flutter to sighs and reverence over outposts of…
The Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry was always going to make for a gruesome read – and…
“Making billions from arms exports which fuel the conflict while providing a small fraction of that in aid to Yemen…
You do not catch fish in anger… Sometime next week I would be one of the keynote speakers at an…
The video clips of the gruesome murder of Pastor Lawn Andimi and Roypvil Dalyop by Boko Haram was revealing and…
The saying that a prophet is not appreciated at home may well be referring to former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings,…
As chief conductor of the saint factory, Pope John Paul II was always going to be, in time, canonised. Almost…
Probe. This is another word for political manoeuvring, horse-trading, chicanery and blackmail – in the Nigerian milieu. Probes are launched…
Recently #SecureNorth has been trending on various social media platforms to demand securing a region that has been ravaged by…
Masks can prove liberating. The hidden face affords security. Obnoxious authority breathes better, hiding in comfort. Behind the material, confidence…
Prior to the recent ‘youths revolt’ in the country which got the young Nigerians once described as ‘lazy’ busy on…
It remains a great surprise to me to still find some opinions against the validity and or legality of the…
These uprisings will bring out the beast in us…Fela Anikulapo Kuti So while I was at the gym I was…
Despite its glaring failure to addressing identified lapses in administering the country and its components, the government still finds it…
In the month of December 2019, an opinion article entitled; Sowore, And Silence from Unusual Quarters’’ by this author appeared…
Bigotry. We are big on it. To inflame passions and to smoke out the most reticent of Nigerians, flagellate the…
#EndSARS with its slogan of Soro Soke, a Yoruba phrase which literally translates as “Speak louder” has opened up new…
Whatever was set to happen on November 3, President Donald J. Trump would not lose. Falling in that establishment firebreak…
“Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?” Harold Pinter, The Homecoming, 1965 Some days back I…
Prior to the nationwide #EndSARS protests that enveloped Nigeria few weeks back, not a few Nigerians doubted the potency and…
At the beginning, I was tempted to think of the author as a reluctant memoirist. Hon. Justice Sunday Akinola Akintan…
Our local press is replete with news of cities across Nigeria which have fallen under siege by those described by…
The events of the past few days across Nigeria, have been most worrisome. There has been massive looting, arson, violence,…
“Djab Wurrung women are in an abusive relationship with Victoria’s government.” Sissy Eileen Austin, The Guardian, Sep 14, 2019 It…
It’s not only Nigerians that deserve a new Nigeria; Nigeria also deserves New Nigerians! Let me start my admonition with…
October 20, 2020, remains a day Nigerians will ever remember. It was a day that will go down in our…
If Donald J. Trump were president of Wakanda on the eve of an election, that country would have received several…
Does disturbing images of the alleged shooting of peaceful #EndSARS protesters at the Lekki toll gate area of Lagos State…
In 2016, Australian Major General Jeff Sengelman approached the then chief of the Australian Army Lieutenant General Angus Campbell with…