Opinion

I can remember posting on fb yesterday about freedom of detainees, provision of basic amenities and employment. Yeah, Sowore and Dasuki have been released from jail by their kidnappers. However, I just wanted to bring to people’s notice the manner of their release. The attorney general of the federation had to instruct the SSS before…

Photo credit: FDA These are, definitely, not the best of times for human beings! How come? COVID-19 has become a recurring decimal and it has not stopped decimating precious human lives. If any prophet had prophesied at the beginning of 2020 that we’ll celebrate Christmas indoors, I wouldn’t have believed him. But, it’s happening before…

Photo credit: iStock It’s a keenly contested race. Note my use of the present tense. That’s because the race to enter the year, 2021, is yet to end. However, the two front-runners are the front-liners and the generality of homo sapiens. The front-liners are those who are giving essential services to the rest of us,…

Photo credit: Vanguard I just thought I should run through the various Christmas periods I’ve been through. Arugbo s’oge ri, the aged too were youth initially The first Christmas I remember is going to meet Father Christmas at either Leventis or Kingsway stores on the Marina in Lagos Island. I don’t know of others, since…

Photo credit: Medium Some have been concerned with the way I write. I can remember someone remarked that I tend to ‘wail’, and complain in Nigerianese, too much in my posts. Well, if I do complain, I don’t have any apologies for that. I believe most of our leaders, at one time or the other,…

Dear President Buhari, How is his excellency doing? Hope you’re are having a very good time in the ozza room! If so alhamidullahi!! I’m sure you know, my most handsome president, that I’m a so-called wailer with a reason. The reason is not so far-fetched. I’ve never forgiven you for torpedoing a democratically elected government…

As Christmas and the new year are approaching, Nigerians can not hope for a better period of bliss! It’s good news that the revving up of the Port Harcourt refinery is gradually coming to fruition. So is the Dangote refinery. But then, what’s this I’m hearing about transport subsidy? I hear the federal government has…