Finally, Mr  Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun exited  as the twenty second Inspector General of Police, IGP on February 24, 2026.  The  needless controversies that trailed his welcome exit, reminded me of what a policeman from Obalende Police Barracks, Lagos told  me when I was a boy.  He said his profession  was based on police sense which  is based […]

The United States is becoming increasingly schizophrenic as it tramples on territories around the world. One of the first instances was when it imposed increased tariffs on many countries as a political weapon to cow the world. Over 90 countries have been affectead with Brazil, whose President, Lula Da Silva, stood up to President Donald Trump, […]

The dynamic Kano State Government under the able leadership of Alhaji  Abba Kabir Yusuf  on February 18, 2026, the first day of the Ramaddan fast, captured a dozen Nigerians. These prisoners of religious war were apprehended  for three types of assault against religious observance. Eight were captured by the Hisbah Religious Police in places like  Kantin Kwari, […]

Africa is in the vile grip of insecurity. This was the verdict of the African Union, AU, Heads of State 39th Summit which held on February 14, 2026 in Addis Ababa. This should call for a state of emergency. But this was not part of the Summit outcome. It was business as usual. In the first […]

The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous writer’s nuclear-powered intellectual attack against Leftists who had […]