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Every Nigerian has a terrible police story. The disbanded rogue Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) was only one of its elements, and it is fitting that it was buried by the #ENDSARS initiative of Nigeria youth last week. But what is at work in Nigeria is bigger than one movement and one moment of anger and […]
Continue ReadingDearest fans of Girls Club, It would interest you to know that over the years, I got readers attacking me in my message box because of my sermons on sexual purity. However, I never had cause to even reply most times and instead increased the sound of my voice which appears to have worked because […]
Continue Reading“Mgbe onye ji teta ula bu ututu ya” (Morning translates to whenever one decides it’s time to wake up) -Igbo Proverb For quite some time, one had often wondered if this day will ever come. The day when young Nigerians whose future is being sacrificed in the alter of greed would rise above the distractions […]
Continue ReadingThe youth uprising against police brutality in Nigeria has taken many by surprise. Conventional wisdom is that the youth are more likely to dance at a concert than sing a protest song. Events of the last couple of weeks have altered this narrative as youthful Nigerians have taken to the streets in a vigorous campaign […]
Continue ReadingIf there is no sperm or semen found in your ejaculate, it simply means that you are suffering from azoospermia – a condition that affects 1 in 10 men who are having fertility problems. Receiving a diagnosis of zero sperm count can be emotionally difficult, but it is not the end of the road. You […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, let me say emphatically that the moment we all dreaded has finally arrived. It is unfortunate that the falcon did not hear the falconer. Nigerian leaders behaved like Nigerians were nonentities, idiots, slaves, donkeys and all what not. Week after week, I have been writing, begging and praying that President Muhammadu Buhari and […]
Continue ReadingThe ongoing anti-SARS protests, the fluctuating industrial disputes between the government and university teachers, oil workers, doctors, etc., are signs of a deep national crisis. The hundreds of billions of Naira allegedly spent in feeding Nigerian children in school, even while the schools themselves were shut down, is also indicative of a totally unimaginative approach […]
Continue ReadingIt was a humid night in July 1985. I was returning home from work and had just run into a police checkpoint a few hundred meters from the University of Lagos. Ahead of me, policemen were busy doing what they normally do at this time of the night … fleecing drivers of as much Naira […]
Continue ReadingIt is said never to kick a man when he is already down. Well, ‘Arakunrin’ (gentleman) Oluwarotimi Odunayo Akeredolu, SAN, is a man both on top and on the up. He has just won a hard-fought governorship election in Ondo State, held last Saturday, October 10, 2020. The result was declared the following day, Sunday, […]
Continue ReadingEvents of the past one week across the country have revealed the true character of the Nigerian police: It is an institution that still sees its role as basically to put down any form of dissent or resistance, including to glaring injustice. Even at the cost of human lives. Only a few days of protests […]
Continue ReadingThe current protests of the youths spreading across the country, under the bold banners of #ENDSARS, were provoked by serial assaults on freedom and human dignity. So, the issue at stake is that of justice, which Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka says “is the first condition of humanity.” Backed unambiguously by the constitution and immensely supported […]
Continue ReadingSeveral weeks ago, I anticipated the concerns of Pastor Enoch Adeboye with this conclusion: “I have decided to broach the advocacy of restructuring this time around on account of the apparent foreclosure of any meaningful constitutional review by the status quo powers and the increasing perception of such foreclosure as the abrogation of the middle […]
Continue ReadingThe increase in the pump price of fuel, in 2020, a fall-out of the deregulation of the down stream sector, did not compel the youths of Nigeria to troop out onto the streets. The additional hike in electricity tariffs was not enough to ignite their anger either. The government of the day explained to the […]
Continue ReadingOn the bloody road to the Kogi governorship election, Yahaya Bello threatened the electorate in his re-election campaign song titled, “Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!” But Bello isn’t all about roaring guns, he’s also a humble leader, who dragged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to Kogi — on their kneels — to beg the aggrieved citizenry for […]
Continue ReadingThere has never been a contradiction blaming the prevalence of obesity on “calories in, calories out” on one hand and the quick flip to advise that eating breakfast is a good strategy for weight control. The obvious question is: Which is it? First, a brief history: Medieval Europe historians noted that “breakfast was only a […]
Continue ReadingIn my Sunday January 19, 2020 piece for my ThisDay column, #TheAlternative, I wrote that by not using his influence to delay the start off of Amotekun until after 2023, Bola Tinubu may have kissed his Presidential ambition good bye. In that piece, titled ‘Amotekun As a Game Changer For 2023’, I wrote that: ‘The […]
Continue ReadingIf you don’t know Ndubuisi (“Dele”) Udo, it is not your fault. The Nigerian police did not allow him to be great. As a teenage athlete in the 1970s, Udo was a collegiate champion at the University of Missouri in the United States. He was a three-time member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) […]
Continue ReadingA good marriage does not only require a great deal of love but also respect which is often regarded as the number one component in a marriage that aspires to succeed. Even though respect is often regarded as an element of courtesy either due to age, influence, or status, however, respect is often earned and […]
Continue ReadingFellow Nigerians, the resistance against the oppression of mostly defenceless Nigerians by officers of the Nigeria Police special squad, known as SARS, came to a deafening crescendo this week. It was never a prophecy foretold. However, thanks to the young men and women who put up amazingly coordinated protests in a few major cities, the […]
Continue ReadingIn what has become a familiar pattern, the speech delivered by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark the sixty years anniversary of Nigeria’s independence was one that didn’t fit the purpose of the occasion of a country’s diamond jubilee. By far the worst Independence Day speech by any Nigerian leader in its recent history, President Buhari […]
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