Perspectives

Prayer as commodity, By Bamidele Johnson

In 2006, I took a friend to the American Embassy for a visa appointment. He passed the night in my place, so it was up to me to drive him there. We arrived a bit after 4am and met a shoal of visa applicants already waiting. A few minutes after arrival, a young man came and started singing Christian choruses.…

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Newly-baptised and ordained political clerics, By Kassim Afegbua

And he came with the salesmanship, oh I have joined official PDP bla-bla-bla. And the presidential candidate of the PDP is a “Northern Christian”, whose name is Atiku Abubakar.Isn’t that awry? Isn’t that smelling of hypocrisy. You spoke so glowingly of christianity as if you were born in Bethlehem and just returned from a Holy pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The next…

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The illusion of leaders and the delusion of followers, By Odi Ikpeazu

The worst kind of leaders, I am sure, are those charismatics who have multitudes that follow them for reasons that scarcely emanate from rational thinking. In that case, I don’t know which is to be found more disturbing – such a leader or his follower? Infinitely more disturbing without a doubt though, is the fact that we have in this…

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Omatseye, death threat & moderation, By Simbo Olorunfemi

Mr Sam Omatseye just reported that he has been receiving death threats from supporters of Mr Peter Obi over his article of yesterday. That is, without mincing words, condemnable and unacceptable. A threat to one is a threat at all. It is a place we should never get to. But are we there already? If not so, we are getting…

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Boundary roads: Dapo Abiodun’s no-solution, By Bamidele Johnson

Inept, invisible, impotent, inert, indolent, inefficacious, indifferent and incompetent. One or more of the preceding adjectives could/ should apply to any or all of the four governors of Ogun State in the last 23 years. In the inglorious line-up are Olusegun Osoba (1999-2003), Gbenga Daniel (2003-2011), Ibikunle Amosun (2011-2019) and Dapo Abiodun (2019-). I am eligible, I believe, to speak…

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Elevating political discourse series 1, By Kayode Adebiyi

I will take time to address vital concerns of genuine people concerning Tinubu’s candidature and the seemingly disorganised posture of APC as a political party. I have continually re-echo the fact that we must elevate political discourse from bullying and gross abuse of the social media platform to name call and carpet in a generalised term supporters of presidential candidates.…

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Campaore’s apology hypocritical, he must go to prison, By Femi Falana

On April 6, 2022, a former President of Burkina Faso, Mr Blaise Compaore was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 brutal murder of his predecessor, Thomas Sankara by a military court which sat in Ouagadougou. Mr Compaore was found guilty of the serious criminal offences of an attack on State Security, complicity in…

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Nigerians happened to Nigeria, By Odi Ikpeazu

“Art is not a mirror to hold up to societybut a hammer with which to shape it.”Leon Trotsky My friend asked me last night what I thought of Big Brother Naija, which I thought was quite cynical of him since I didn’t know why my opinion about it mattered one way or the other. Knowing that particular fellow, he will…

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Obi-tuary, By Sam Omatseye

Suddenly, it is all quiet on the eastern front. No street heckles or flag waving or mooning over a yellow sun, no hooting or baying in public. The rabble no longer raves. Few wonder what happened to the Nnamdi Kanu crowd. Some may wonder if they are withering? The answer is before our eyes. The Biafran babblers are alive and…

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President Buhari is overdue for impeachment, By Yemi Adebowale

A large number of senators, across party lines, showed a bit of courage last Wednesday by pushing for President Muhammadu Buhari’s impeachment in the face of the appalling security situation of beloved Nigeria. But the coldblooded President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan tactically stalled the motion to give the inept Buhari six weeks to improve the country’s security or face…

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