Category: Opinion
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Criminalising Peaceful Protest Is A NO, NO – By Adeola SOETAN
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“I hereby, as the Commissioner of Police, Lagos Police Command, declare Sowore wanted. I declare him wanted for the act of causing disturbance of public peace and an attempt to commit serious felony by planning and putting all the plans in motion to obstruct traffic on the Third Mainland Bridge…
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Can Tinubu Do Anything Right for Once? – By Farooq Kperogi
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Why is this Tinubu government so exasperatingly allergic to doing anything right? It issued a news release saying it had reversed its invidious pardon of notoriously cold-blooded murderers, drug barons and kidnappers. Just when many of us were impressed enough by what appeared to be the government’s unaccustomed sensitivity to…
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When the Law Becomes the Victim of Jungle Justice, By Comrade Ufezime Nelson Ubi
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By now, Nigerians should understand that the country has entered one of its darkest moments in history. Almost all the high profile lawyers in Nigeria are angry and restless, and rightly so. Many of them were injured, beaten, and even abducted on the very day Omoyele Sowore was about to…
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Sowore: The CIA, APC, FBI Super Asset? What David Hundeyin, APC, and Obidient should know! – BY ISMAIL OGUNSOLA EXCEL
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In 1999, he participated in the anti-WTO protest against corporate globalization in New York. In recent history, he has participated in protests against Shell environmental degradation (2010), against fuel subsidy removal (2012), EndSARS (2017, 2020), RevolutionNow (2019), Buhari Must Go (2020), October 1st (2020), Pots and Pans hunger protest (2020),…
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WHO CAN RAIN JUSTICE ON NNAMDI KANU? TINUBU OR THE PEOPLE? – BY OMOLE IBUKUN
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For many who would have loved to attend yesterday’s protest, but were conflicted about whether we should demand for the freedom of Nnamdi Kanu, or grant him a fair and speedy hearing without any political delays according to the law, this is for you. This is for those young #EndBadGovernance…
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Nnamdi Kanu and the Endless Clumsy Trial, By Adeola Soetan
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Nnamdi Kanu is a hostage no more a suspect due to the lawlessness and stupidity of government from Seriki Integrity Buhari to Babu Integrity Tinubu regime. Even if Kanu had killed a million citizens, trafficked in hard drugs, involved in certificate forgery, yahoo, kidnapping or identity theft, he remains a…
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How They Deserted And Killed Kaduna Refinery For One Man, By Buhari Olanrewaju Ahmed
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My heart wrinkles with pain and my eyes well up with tears each time I remember what Kaduna Refinery used to be before the administration of General Muhammadu Buhari took over from Goodluck Jonathan and turned one of Nigeria’s pride into ruins. After spending 10 years away from the Kaduna…
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The Daylight Robbery: Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bill, By Ogundipe Daniel
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Prices of everyday items keep going up while wages remain stagnant. Many families can hardly afford basic needs, and now, these new taxes will only make life even harder. It feels like the government is taking from those who have almost nothing left to give.
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TINUBU’S 2026 TAX IS AN UPGRADED ROBBERY OF THE POOR: NIGERIANS MUST REJECT THIS CRIMINAL ACT NOW, BY UFEZIME NELSON UBI
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This is why Nigerians must not wait until 2026. The time to resist is now. We must reject every attempt to increase or formalize hidden taxation. We must rise as one people and say that enough is enough. The problem is not that Nigerians do not pay tax. The problem…
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Independence Day: Don’t Teach Us Nonsense, By Bàbá Ayé
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Today is the 65th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence. President Bola Tinubu delivered a speech which was widely broadcast, this morning. He saluted the heroes & heroines who fought the colonial government. But not a single activist in the organised labour of that period was mentioned despite the pivotal role of…