Category: Opinion

Protesters Of The North They did what locusts do to farms. They spared almost nothing. They ate road slabs, pilfered roofs and stole ceilings. They attacked and looted at least…

Endbadgovernance Protest: My Stand Point By Dr. Amen Ogbemudia As we cry out loud in protest let also remember that those of us who has been on the street since…

Protest, Dangote And Other Stories Nigeria is a drama, an entertainment. Listen to the ‘Wahala’ singer, Portable, as he wonders why anyone would want him to join this week’s proposed…

Protestant Greeks In Abuja An old friend reviewed the ways of this government and said he thought Bola Tinubu should be afraid of the Greeks. “Yes, especially if they come…

Ilorin And Dan Fodio’s Deadstock By Lasisi Olagunju Justice Ibrahim Kolapo Gambari, JCA became the Emir of Ilorin in August 1995 and decreed the ‘Kolapo’ in his name abolished. He…

LGs And Tinubu’s Supreme Cut On a bright, randy day in Lagos in the year 2015, a judge hurriedly used the law to dissolve a troubled marriage. Three months later,…

Britain Is Nigeria’s ‘Bad’ Teacher Number 10, Downing Street has been home to Britain’s prime ministers since 1735 AD. Why would a hugely popular new prime minister move into a…

Kings And Imams In Yorubaland By Lasisi Olagunju Beyond its outer casing of spirituality, the post of Imam in Yorubaland potentially guarantees prestige, power and prosperity. That is why people…

Let Kenyans Enjoy Their Kenya Hugh Gaitskell became Britain’s Minister of Fuel and Power on October 7, 1947. Soon after taking that office, because there was an energy crisis, the…

Reps’ Drunkard Democracy By Lasisi Olagunju I had thought that our lawmakers in Abuja cared only for big cars, big bucks and big boobs. I never knew they also have…