By Tony Navah Okonmah Nigeria will be 62 years as an independent country on 1 October 2022, and it will be 62 years of failed experiment. Admittedly sadly so, is the fact that the up coming generations are in far worse situation as mayhem is already unleashed on the country that has lost its compass […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye First, let’s slake our thirst at the fountain of Mandela’s wisdom: “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers […] Read more
By Evelyn Usman News of the ban of commercial motorcycles otherwise called okada, in six local government areas of Lagos state, by Governor Babajide Sanwo Olu, this week , did not come as a surprise to many, who considered it as long overdue. This is because security report has revealed that a good percentage of […] Read more
By Basil Okoh Hakeem Baba Ahmed, spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) spoke a few days ago, threatening to expel the Igbo and Southern Nigeria from the Nigerian nation. Promptly, Garba Shehu, spokesman of President Muhammadu Buhari replied, warning Baba-Ahmed off of speaking for the North or the Government of Nigeria. Garba Shehu said: […] Read more
By Farooq Kperogi Deborah: I’ve Lost Faith in Humanity That such a large number of highly credentialed, full-grown northern Nigerian Muslim adults in full control of their mental faculties (who repeat the mantra that “Islam is a religion of peace,” no less) would countenance, defend, justify, and even revel in the insensate slaughter of Deborah […] Read more
By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 16 May, 2022) A Sokoto mob on Saturday violently protested against justice for Deborah Yakubu who was murdered by her schoolmates in broad daylight. They wanted her suspected killers released without trial. The mob thought the state did not owe the murdered that duty of […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye “Never again”! That phrase was made popular by survivors of the Holocaust in which six million European Jews were systematically murdered in pogroms, mass shootings and gas chambers during World War II by Hitler’s forces. The phrase is thought to have been borrowed from a 1927 poem by Yitzhak Lamdan, “Never again […] Read more
By Ayo Dada The gruesome murder of Deborah Yakubu In 1995, a group of 9 Wahabist fundamentalists in Kano killed & beheaded a young Igbo Trader, Gideon Akaluka. Remember Bridget Agbahime? She was beheaded in kofar wambai market in Kano and her head hoisted on a stick and taken on a victory parade afterwards. Her […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is not a bad man. He may have appeared to be overwhelmed by daunting circumstances confronting his administration — especially by the pro-democracy groups queuing up behind the expected messiah of the time, General Muhammadu Buhari — but generally he had as good a heart as anyone who has […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Nigeria since 1966 was no longer one, not even on paper talk less of in reality. Let us restructure the country or peacefully go our many separate ways – Dosumu. The Arole Oduduwa, Ooni Adeyeye Ogunwusi, Ojaja ll, the Ooni of Ife inaugurated 22- man committee to investigate the Yoruba freedom fighter Sunday […] Read more
