Opinion

Photo credit: ICIR Nigeria There’s no doubting the fact that Nigerians and the rest of the world are waiting with bated breath for this jagbajantis of a regime led by Mr Buhari to end. I can’t but remember the song we sang, with gusto, in my elementary school days when it was time to go…

Photo credit: Premium Times I remember the 2015 presidential elections in Nigeria! While almost everyone supported .Mr Buhari, I saw behind his smokescreen. For someone who had had a chance of ruling the nation and had made a mess of it, I thought he was a no no! That’s even a story for some other…

Photo credit; Vanguard How can a presidential aspirant go to a state, and, instead of presenting his manifesto, he started citing what I will refer to as irrelevancies? His reference to the Pope might have been seen as blasphemy in Northern Nigeria. To make matters worse, he even referred to a sitting governor as “eleyi”…

Photo credit: Radford University A Suegbe, in this context, is defined as original as they could come while a Rare is a starstruck wannabe! The former doesn’t need validation from anyone because they’re natural. Therefore, they could survive anywhere without a change in their personality. I’m proud to be a Suegbe! Meanwhile, a Rare could…

Photo credit: Daily Post I’m sitting here and remembering how Mr Dalung, Nigerian sports minister and Mrs Yetunde Onanuga travelled to watch Anthony Joshua’s demolition of Takam in the tenth round. They did not fail to relay a message of how the government and people of Nigeria were proud of AJ. When the heavyweight boxer…

Photo credit: the Cable Igboro o r’erinSo, so tightFail to solve withinLook for help abroad! Just as maluJourneys abroadOnly to returnAs corn beef! Fail we to see futilityOf forced unityWe’re goaded onWith machine gun! Forced to signUnrepresentative constitutionThat’s our problemSpit out like phlegm! From PDPPapa Deceive PikinTo APCA banned drug! Need we new worthFrom new…

Photo credit: Chorister I utterly fail to understand the problem of my people. So, Nigeria’s return to the old national anthem is now a hard nut to crack for us. We have failed to see the inherent values in the change. The legislators saw them, that’s why the bill was passed in arguably a record…