By Ladesope Ladelokun  When former President Olusegun Obasanjo said in 2004 that any Nigerian who was not prepared to die for Nigeria did not deserve to be called a Nigerian citizen,he probably did not envisage that a time would come that the agitation for secession by frustrated Nigerians would reach a disturbing decibel. Only recently,the […]

By Sola Ebiseni PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari is the most taciturn Nigerian leader. He seldom talks and when pushed to do so, you wish he never did. Only those too young or are not on the field of political events, in the country, would be shocked by such utterances or actions by Buhari. In his public […]

By Damimola Olawuyi In recent times, the calls to divide Nigeria into its constituent units have grown increasingly louder. In the South East, the Indigenous People’s Of Biafra (IPOB), under Nnamdi Kanu has waged a largely peaceful campaign to resurrect the Biafra Republic for about a decade. The North East has witnessed a brutal Islamist […]

By Lanre Arogundade AT a stage we constructed a cage at the secretariat of the Lagos Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in Shomolu area of Lagos in which we inserted images of incarcerated journalists to demonstrate to the world that the Nigerian media was in chains. It was in the aftermath of […]

By Dakuku Peterside WITH each passing day as a nation, it becomes more apparent that we have too much on our plate. The challenge of unemployment, poverty, widespread insecurity, COVID-19-induced economic recession and ethnic agitation fuelled by feelings of marginalisation are evident. All these challenges are peculiar, correlated and cyclical. The conundrum is that all […]