Travail of Nigerian women
Considering various trending hashtags: #SayNoToRapists, #NoToRape, #EndRapeCulture, #JusticeForOurGirls, you would think that you were in India or South Africa. But…
Is Nigeria’s democracy effective?
Nigeria returned to a democratic system of government in 1999 with Olusegun Obasanjo as president and Atiku Abubakar as vice-president under…
June 12 and contemporary struggles
Many a time, the custodians of history have enumerated the manner democracy was buried alive in Nigeria on June 12,…
Travail of Nigerian women
Considering various trending hashtags: #SayNoToRapists, #NoToRape, #EndRapeCulture, #JusticeForOurGirls, you would think that you were in India or South Africa. But…
Covid-19 and food crisis
The Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), released a damning report of imminent or looming hunger on the African continent as…
Rape: Where is our conscience?
The tragedy of rape and killing of Vera Uwaila Omozuwa presented snippets of an already dying nation and more; the…
Proactive actions to end insurgency
Even though the Federal Government did not take actions early enough in preventing the entry of the coronavirus into the…
COVID-19: Before our schools are reopened
It is no more news that since the outbreak and spread of the novel coronavirus across countries of the world,…
Rape: Nigeria should learn from countries with stiffer penalties
When the punishment that is tied to a crime is flexible, such crime will continue to record patronage. In Nigeria,…
Adesina: President Buhari has spoken
Dr Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank (AfDB), has some reprieve now because he has been able to…
The menace called rape
Nigeria is fast degenerating into the state where life is short, brutish and nasty, given the alarming rise in the…
Almajiri: Need for repositioning
Long before the colonisation of Nigeria, the almajiri system started around the 11th century in Kanem- Borno and was later…
Why we must all stand up against rape
Human sexual abuse is not just a matter of instinct as many people believe. It is rather an action which…
Protecting our environment
World Environment Day is celebrated on June 5, every year and it is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging…
On ODI research
The Ondo Democratic Initiatives (ODI), a research group in Ondo State, is known for pre-election research. It was the organisation…
Coronavirus: Enduring the new norm
Coronavirus pandemic is a viral infection. Contagion takes place when fluid from an infected person’s mouth or nose gets into…
On Ogun resident doctors’ warning strike
On Thursday, May 21, 2020, the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD) at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital, Sagamu, announced…
The insecurity challenge in Nigeria
The first duty of a government is to keep its citizens safe because only the state has the wherewithal to…
Plagiarism: A slap on our lawmakers
In a recent news report published on Monday, May 18, 2020, by The Times, one of the United Kingdom’s biggest…
AfDB: Another lesson in diplomacy for Nigeria
Now, the African Development Bank (AfDB) saga has corroborated the fact that the United States of America (USA) has a…
