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Things went out of hand very quickly with the emerging Nigerian “revolution” when on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, soldiers stormed the Lekki Toll Gate Plaza in Lagos, and started shooting. We were told they shot in the air. But the reports have been conflicting and troubling. The protesters insist that persons died, and that the […]
Continue ReadingMy sincerest condolences to families who have lost any member as a result of the #ENDSARS protests and eternal rest to the young Nigerians who have unfortunately paid the supreme price. The protests were with complete orderliness until some people with agenda infiltrated thugs into the mix and took it off the hands of the […]
Continue ReadingInjustice breeds nothing but pains in the hearts of its victims. To the orchestrators of injustices, the hues and cries of those at the receiving end are nothing but amplified noises. In reality, however, these hues and cries come from a place of real-time hurt, pains and heartbreak. I just finished reading Femi Adeshina’s latest […]
Continue ReadingWhat a week it has been for our own dear native land! Just at the beginning of the month, as the country turned 60 as an independent entity, President Muhammadu Buhari had charged us to “begin sincere process of national healing, eliminate old and outworn perceptions that are always put to test in the lie […]
Continue ReadingWith a trap-like mouth comprising 80 spiky teeth, death is the smile on the face of an adult crocodile. In a dramatised circus that pledged to protect lives, limbs and fatherland, the Nigerian military, on Saturday, October 17, 2020, embraced the crocodile and its smile when it launched Operation Crocodile Smile. Like the smile of […]
Continue ReadingThe deliberate shooting of unarmed protestors in Lagos and other parts of Nigeria last week was an outrage. I say this as a human being, as a Christian, and as the leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion – which counts some 18 million Nigerians as part of our global family. But I also say this […]
Continue ReadingNigeria has changed and the genie of real change (as against the fake one promised by President Buhari and the All Progressive Congress), cannot be put back into the bottle. Power has shifted from Buhari’s cabal to the Nigerian people, and we are not going to give it back to a clueless President, who only […]
Continue ReadingA young Nigerian friend phoned me from the United States to ask an intriguing question: “In all your years of following Jesus, what have you gained?” She was possibly at a crossroad, having a crisis of faith. Probably, she was confronted with the bankruptcy of the prosperity messages prevalent in the churches. She had discovered instead […]
Continue Reading“The man that buried his father with cow and the man that buried his father with hen, each did according to their ability”. Igbo Proverb. The chaos and havoc experienced in some families when sharing what a dead man left behind are very alarming and disturbing especially if the dead man was wealthy or an […]
Continue ReadingHow can a peaceful protest end up with killing and maiming, burning and looting in a matter of days? For those of us who have seen plenty “peaceful” protests in our lives, it is not too hard to explain. The moment you hit the streets and fail to read the road signs — so that […]
Continue ReadingThe title of this piece is a dictum of people of my nationality, the Yoruba. It speaks to the grace of vision (the capacity to see) in the vortex of griefs. And indeed, Nigerians, in millions began to experience a new wave of grief yesterday when soldiers fired live ammunition – types that could be […]
Continue ReadingYesterday, a group of responsible and patriotic Nigerians who have watched with serious concern the unfolding crisis threatening to engulf our nation released a statement calling for urgent intervention. The group included Dr. Olisa Agbakoba OON, SAN, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Professors Attahiru Jega, Joy Ezeilo, Auwalu Yadudu, Adele Jinadu, Pat Utomi, Jibrin Ibrahim, Rufai […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, it is difficult to imagine the amount of mayhem that visited Lagos this week. Let me just put it bluntly, our worst nightmares became reality, in a jiffy. The peace and tranquillity that Lagos had enjoyed for decades as the heartbeat of Nigeria was shattered into smithereens within a twinkle of an eye. […]
Continue ReadingRight now, in Nigeria, the nation roiling, boiling, and burning. Nigerian youths have taken over many major streets especially in Lagos, the commercial capital of the country. In their bones is flaming angst, and in their marrows is infernal anger. They have come to a realistic conclusion that if true change will be etched in […]
Continue Reading“A time comes in the life of a people when a conspiracy of circumstances heralds a new era. This usually happens when no one is expecting it; and also when all principal actors are occupied with their private schemes. So did it happen in Obodo Mmehie, after decades of suffering and failed promises by various […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday afternoon, when the news first circulated that they were removing surveillance cameras from the Lekki toll gate and that the government could be up to some mischief, my first instinct was to dismiss the alarm. This was no longer 1983, and the state could not be so reckless they would unleash violence on […]
Continue Reading‘Soro soke, ki o se idajo ododo, ba talaka ati alaini gba eto won’ (Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy)—Proverbs 31: 9 When the army announced last week that beginning Tuesday it would commence ‘Operation Crocodile Smile’—not against Boko Haram insurgents in the North-east but rather across the […]
Continue ReadingIn my first year at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) I took part in the “Ali Must Go” Protest of 1978. It was a popular protest against the commercialisation of education by the Olusegun Obasanjo military junta. Since then, I have participated in many protests against military and civilian dictatorial regimes in […]
Continue ReadingTurning and turning in the widening gyre The Falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity Surely some […]
Continue ReadingTHE ENDSARS PROTEST PREAMPBLE It is wishful thinking with the usual Nigerian “fire brigade approach. They cannot do it without their elders. Majority of SARS are young policemen who are bad. What are the youths doing? The Young Police Officers are all graduates, so why do they lose the control of the men they command? […]
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