MKO: The Story of An Unlikely Hero of Democracy, By Simon Kolawole

Confession: I despised Gen Sani Abacha with the same intensity Obidients hate President Bola Tinubu. I thought I had overcome the ill-feeling after 28 years. Alas, I watched ‘MKO’ — the documentary on Bashorun Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola currently showing in film houses across Nigeria — and my emotions went haywire again. It brought back […]

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Go on, Fubara, Become a Hero, By Simon Kolawole

We made so much noise and raised plenty of eyebrows, but Sir Siminalayi Fubara was successfully sent packing from office for six months in a controversial display of federal might and presidential powers by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. On Wednesday, Fubara was officially restored to office. In summary, he lost the battle for supremacy with […]

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Another hero of liberation struggle in South Africa, Desmond Tutu, dies

Another hero of liberation struggle in South Africa and the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, has passed away. He died on Sunday December 26 at the age of 90. South Africa’s president, President Cyril Ramaphosa, announced the Archbishop’s death on Sunday. Ramaphosa said: “The passing of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu is another […]

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The Hero of Maiduguri, By Akin Osuntokun

“I predict that every multi-lingual or multi-national country with a unitary constitution must either eventually have a federal constitution based on the principles which I have enunciated, or disintegrate, or be perennially afflicted with disharmony and instability” – Obafemi Awolowo The fundamental political argument of Nigeria today boils down to the contention between the political […]

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