By Abimbola Adelakun This week marked the first anniversary of the #EndSARS, the mass demonstrations against police brutality that shook Nigeria and culminated in a brutal crackdown on the protesters by soldiers drafted to the…
No region in Southern Nigeria needs One Nigeria…
(A must read pls.) *Buhari’s government is a necessary evil. Necessary in the sense that each region that makes up the contraption called Nigeria has come to see the union as an open-faced lie that…
A prescription for 2022 – ‘Don’t raise your…
By Femi Olugbile This column, in its last incarnation for the year 2021, was devoted entirely to Desmond Mpilo Tutu, a man who carried no arms and threw no stones in street demonstrations – though…
THE TRAGEDY OF IGBO CHASING RATS WHILE THE…
(Written by Tony Nnadi from the Perspective of the Nigerian Indigenous Nationalities Alliance for Self-Determination, NINAS, January 3, 2022). (1) At a time the rest of Nigeria is vigorously debating the urgency of addressing the…
Maybe the North has woken up
By Lekan Sote There are conflicting reports of an escape by Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar III of Sokoto, who left the Nigeria Army (to ascend the throne of Shehu Uthman dan Fodio), as a Brigadier-General, through…
State of anarchy
By Sonala Olumhense Nigeria’s new normal: a robust state of anarchy, continued undisturbed last week. At the University of Abuja, half an hour away from the presidential palace, hoodlums in brisk but leisurely business mode…
Musings on some mindboggling corruption cases in Nigeria
By Jide Ojo This country has gone to tatters, I dare say. The recent revelations about the mindboggling cases of corruption by some of Nigeria’s civil servants and political leaders show that it will take…
That independence ‘theory’
By Matthew Agboma Ozah If you have been following the Independence anniversary speech of Nigerian political leaders from the first Republic till present, you will discover that the current political leadership have knowingly or otherwise…
Cause and cost of insecurity
By Lekan Sote Acting leader of Yoruba Afenifere, octogenarian Ayo Adebanjo, suggests that the commanding heights of state violence are (mostly) in the hands of the Fulani who seem to have captured the Nigerian state…