Perspectives
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Inciting comments are part of insecurity
Let’s start with a caveat: free comments are part of democracy, and so this is not an attempt to muzzle anyone. Nobody should come and shout, oh, they don’t want us to say our minds again. They want to padlock our mouths. Not at all. President Muhammadu Buhari is not even the type that would gag anyone, and the polity…
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Reform is in the making, By Babatunde Irukera
It may be slow, even tedious, but one day at a time, the landscape for accountability in the marketplace is changing. I am particularly happy today because of two decisions that emanated from the State and Federal High Court. One from the Enugu State High Court, and the other from the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court. Both decisions…
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Anarchy and El Rufai’s call for mercenaries, By Kayode Ajulo
It is now trite that Nigeria in recent times has been trailing through periods of insecurity of lives and property as well as none respect for the rule of law, natural justice and human dignity. This fact has in recent months been unhappily emphasized by the startling events which occurred in this country. I shall not belabor the point but…
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Oshiomhole @ 70: The untold stories, By Louis Odion
“Yes, next?”“Sir, the next person on the list,” continued the Senior Special Assistant on Protocols in Edo Government House testily “is the widow you met sometime ago while on project inspection and you said we should include her name among those to be paid monthly from the money you gave us to maintain the house in Iyahmo.” The circumstances of…
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Perhaps closed files should remain just that – closed, By Wole Soyinka
Barely three months have passed since the twentieth anniversary of the murder of the late Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Bola Ige, an occasion that I utilized to remind President Mohammed Buhari, of a subsisting election pledge. That pledge was to re-open the files on the spate of unsolved political assassinations that had plagued the nation in recent decades. Prominent…
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Buhari is flippant about taming terrorists, By Yemi Adebowale
When terrorists strike and there are no consequences, they are emboldened. This is exactly what has been happening in almost seven years of the Buhari government in Nigeria. Six days after terrorists bombed a train heading to Kaduna from Abuja, killing eight people; injuring and abducting many, not even one of the bastards has been apprehended. The terrorists operated for…
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APC, PDP and Nigeria’s free fall, By Segun Ayobolu
Except for anyone living in a veritable fool’s paradise, the stark truth is that Nigeria today is in free fall. The existential conditions of millions of Nigerians are horrendous. The country stands at the very precipice of disaster threatening to implode at anytime with an amazingly distracted political class inexplicably incapacitated to do anything about it. This is certainly not…
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Obiano and the possibility of a new job, By Dare Babarinsa
It was a good thing that Willie Obiano, the former governor of Anambra State, had his baptism of fire early. Obiano was on his way to the United States for a well-deserved holiday when operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) accosted him at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, and asked him to step aside. After a…
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No road, airway, railway to Kaduna, By Bolaji Adebiyi
Recent terror attacks close all routes to Kaduna, writes Bolaji Adebiyi It takes personal restraint and courage not to be cynical about the mass graveyard that Nigeria has become under the watch of Muhammadu Buhari. Carried into power at the fourth try on the back of a general disenchantment with the security situation in the country, Nigerians looked forward to…
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They hate God, they loathe humanity
Haters of God and humanity struck on Monday, bombing the Abuja-Kaduna train. They then proceeded to open fire on passengers of the immobilized coaches. It was premeditated murder from the very bottom of hell. See the toll of the carnage. Promising lives, cut short. Destinies terminated. Hopes and plans, ruptured. People who committed no sin, no crime, except that they…
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