Articles by Omoniyi Osadare

They came for me in the forenoon. It was a Friday in the month of May,1995. The operatives from the Directorate of Military Intelligence,DMI were told to get Adegbenro Adebanjo ,the TELL senior writer at […]

Watch the chameleon; it knows how to blend with the environment. Watch the man; he doesn’t know how to blend with the environment. Man unlike the chameleon doesn’t understand his political, technological, social, legal, economic, […]

Inauguration days are epoch making or red letter days when great speeches are made. We won’t forget that of John Fitzgerald Kennedy which he made on January 20, 1961 ‘Ask not what your country can […]

Today marks the beginning of the celebration of Democracy Day on June 12. After about 25 years of ceaseless clamouring for the federal government to declare June 12 a national public holiday in honour of […]

This is the late Basorun MKO Abiola’s speech dubbed: The Epetedo Declaration. At Epetedo, Lagos Island, the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, Abiola declared himself president in a historic speech titled: Enough […]

This year’s recall of an uplifting day in the year 1993 comes up against a background of its most shameful disavowal: the 2019 elections – still under judicial contestation – an event that would be […]

drtayooke@gmail.com A former Chief of Training and Operations Officer, Air Vice Marshal Olutayo Oguntoyinbo, had been standing trial for receiving a “gift” of N166m from a contractor under his management, but, was sensationally acquitted of […]

For weeks now, people have been sharing messages on the social media, warning the public to avoid travelling on certain highways in the South-West because of the activities of kidnappers, believed to be herdsmen. Victims […]

Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, has enormous challenges on his hands. And, son of man pity him a lot. He has been very comfortable almost throughout his life with his hands in lovely portions […]

The English philosopher, Thomas Hobbes, once said of himself, that the day he was born, one other being was born with him, fear; for his mother went into labour on hearing of the approach of […]

Right from the first day she stepped into her role as the Acting Director General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom) in April 2017, Mrs Aisha Dahir-Umar must have known she was gliding straight into […]

A country can only operate efficiently if it has a basic grasp of the number of people that exist within it. This is where democratic accountability begins. I do not believe the data from our […]

The annual ritual marked as the World Environment Day has no meaning in Nigeria since the day is merely used by government officials to deliver beautiful keynote speeches and rehearse the same environmental problems plaguing […]