ONE-PARTY RULE = A dictator and end of June 12, by Dele Sobowale
NOTE: This article was first published in June 2025. Recent occurrences on the political scene have made this repetition necessary. Most of those who end up being victimised by a dictator were once his fervent promoters. “When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults […]
Despite June 12, Babangida was our greatest lawgiver in the last century
There is an abiding tendency in Nigeria to judge our leaders from the narrow spectrum of partisan politics, ethnicity or how one particular event associated with them has affected us – for good or ill
‘If…’
If taking five months to do what other nations require only maximum of four days to finish is regarded as wisdom here, then the two branches of government will have to explain to us and the whole world why none of the 10,000 Health Centres promised to Nigerians had been built despite the fact that a Minister of Health was appointed so late in 2015
Digging up wealth in the South, burying them in the North
Under Buhari in the 1980s, Nigeria expelled Ghanaians – giving rise to the Ghana-Must-Go epithet. Now, as fate would have it, Nigerians are now being hounded out of Ghana. They have Buhari to thank for that
Nigeria’s hearts of darkness and gradual destruction
As a Nigerian Christian, I regard the proscription order as a Sunni conspiracy against Shiites which might affect me and my family as innocent bystanders. Even if there are 10,000 Sunnis to one Shiite, that single one is entitled under our Constitution to worship as he/she likes. It should not be our business
Iran has spoken on El-Zakzaky Buhari better listen
The FG and Nigeria’s security chiefs must understand that what we have received is an ultimatum couched in diplomatic language and wrapped as defence of a citizen’s (their citizen) rights to freedom to practice religion which is guaranteed by the Nigerian constitution itself
