Opinions
Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo, on 26 November, sat in his office as the President of Guinea-Bissau. As a retired General, the 53-year-old knew when he was beaten. Three days earlier, he had succumbed to unbearable…
There is a Yoruba proverb that warns: A kì í fi ojú kan sán’na fún ajá tí yó pa ni, meaning you do not light the path for the dog that will bite you. Yet, the Peoples Democratic Party has…
The word ‘expire’ is commonly mishandled in two major ways. The first is phonological while the second is grammatical. You are likely to be among those guilty as charged. If you think otherwise, just read on. When many pronounce ‘expire’,…
It’s really amusing how Nigerians have gone into a frenzy on the rather empty, self-serving threat issued by the US President, Donald Trump, to storm a ‘disgraced’ Nigeria ‘gun a-blazing’, to wipe out our long-term terror oppressors who are killing…
For over 15 years, Nigerians have been killed in their droves, with thousands displaced and communities wiped out. What began as Boko Haram’s insurgency in the North-East has spread into a nationwide tragedy involving bandits, so-called herdsmen, and other violent…
Imagine a “Policeman of the World”. He would be doing more than Atlas, who Greek mythology claimed was condemned to holding the heavens on his shoulders for eternity, for leading the Titans in a war against the Olympians. Though the…
A lot has been written, said, read, and heard about the love-turned-sour tale of Senator Ned Nwoko and his estranged wife, Regina Daniels. There have been allegations and counter-allegations of domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and all sorts of…
This year’s Climate Change Conference has one thing going for it. It is a meeting where the world decides what key actions to take towards the implementation of all decisions it has already taken in previous Conferences of the Parties…
In a stunning move, Nigeria’s National Council on Education has effectively silenced the voices of its own people by scrapping mother tongue education, undermining the very languages that BBC Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba services have worked tirelessly to promote. The…
In a bid to alleviate the uncertainties and tensions that prevail at the moment, the Federal Government recently announced a notable success rate in its fight against terrorism. They declared that they had recorded an 81 per cent reduction in…
Some Nigerian scientists propose that cannabis, popularly referred to as “Igbo”, should be cultivated here legally. This is the same no-ordinary plant the Nigerian government expends huge resources to combat its cultivation, trafficking, and use, because of the widely acknowledged…
‘Baba Ijebu’ was the name we fondly called the Vice-Principal of my alma mater, African Church Grammar School in Ibadan. Baba Ijebu was a very tough, firm, and uncompromising disciplinarian whom every student feared. In our third year in school,…
When Donald Trump visited Scotland in July this year, I watched his motorcade arrive at Prestwick Airport under the vigilant eyes of Police Scotland. His aircraft and convoy rolled in with precision, while journalists, protesters, and curious citizens lined the…
The bully in me met its match in my primary school classmate, Lukman Oluwuyi, on our way back home one afternoon. In the eyes of a schoolkid, St Paul Anglican School, Idi-Oro, Lagos, was a couple of giant two-storey buildings…
Walking casually into a fertility clinic doesn’t reveal much about the hundreds of eggs or tiny embryos preserved in glass-like stillness, floating in liquid nitrogen at,196°C. But that is exactly what is on the ground, each of those eggs or…
The weakness of the average older man is a much younger woman. There is just something in men that can’t seem to resist the allure of a firm, supple body, even when she is half their age. And I refuse…
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