Issues/Policy

Again, the book fell from the sleepy hands of Kiko, a PhD student of Addictive Psychiatry. The book, “The Land of Shameless Leaders,” is psychiatry’s grundnorm of psychoanalytic dialectics on greed, deceit, impunity and heartlessness […]

There is a rape pandemic ravaging the country. Media reports show that some men have gone crazy over illegal sex and have resorted to bestial actions with the other sex. Some prey on children. Some […]

If allowed, the renewed campaign of calumny targeted at the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, would not only dent the image of the country’s fight against corruption, but […]

To appease the international community, Nigerian authorities have told British parliamentarians that Nigerian humanist, Mubarak Bala, has been charged in court in Kano. They claimed that he was charged with insulting religion. This is not […]

Last Friday June 12, Nigeria marked Democracy Day. That’s a really worthwhile celebration but I imagine that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic couldn’t have allowed for much fanfare. Be that as it may, the benefits from […]

On April 8, 2020, ponmo a local delicacy in Nigeria trended for the wrong reasons. In a now-viral video, a woman reportedly spent over N1m to feed her neighbours during the Federal Government COVID-19 lockdown […]

It takes a lot of outrage for the citizens of the state of a sitting president to take to the streets against him. In the past couple of weeks, citizens of Katsina, the home state […]

We buried a good man today. Not as we previously would have. Not as he might have expected. But we did it anyway. He was widely liked and respected; a quiet, get the job done […]

E kaaro o L a nKira wa N’ile Yooba E maa je mi E kaaro o Gbogbo ilu! E maa je mi. Te ba gbede mi!!! Good morning Is how we salute the morning In […]

I noticed the context of ‘Ibrahim Magu and a chaotic presidency’ in August 2017, barely two years into the strange tenure of the Acting Chairman of the EFCC. I commented on it then in an […]

By now, most people have read the story of the scuffle that occurred between Mrs. Aisha Buhari, her children, and her security aides on one hand and Sabi’u “Tunde” Yusuf, son of Buhari’s niece who […]

Fellow Africans and friends of Africa liberation starts by “Decolonizing The Mind,” to borrow the title of a must-read book by Ngugi wa Thiong’o the Kenyan intellectual and author. Africans why do we in the […]

Rapists are atavistic sadists, who do not belong to the modern world. Very crude in their rusticism, they brutally inflict torturous and indelible scars on the psyches of their victims; and that is for those […]

Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, will be allowed to run with his deputy, Philip Shaibu, on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party if he (Obaseki) emerges winner at the PDP primary slated for Tuesday, […]

The full scale of America’s failure to grapple with Coronavirus — and the horrific results of it — are finally becoming clear. See the chart below? What does the chart really say? We struggle with […]

Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), escaped the axe by the gators last week. He was nearly fired. The EFCC chief’s nearly five-year incumbency has been a wild play […]

Over 15,000 people have now signed a petition to the United Nations seeking the removal of Oladapo Oyebanjo, a Nigerian singer better known as D’banj, as a youth ambassador. Seyitan Babatayo, a Nigerian lady, had […]