Category: Opinion

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu had initially vowed to provide student loans for indigent students during the 2023 presidential election campaign.Nigerians were happy because this was the first time a presidential aspirant would discuss establishing loans for students. However, the president didn’t explain that he would remove education subsidies when he…

Bi o ba laya ko se ika, sugbon bi o ba ranti iku Gaa, ki o so to. If you are brave, venture into wickedness, but if you will recall Gaa’s death,adhere to the truth. Reading the biography of the infamous Bashorun Gaa at a time as tensed as this…

I wish to make some preliminary remarks about the competency of the recently instituted legal action by the Lagos state government against the alleged promoters of the proposed nation wide protest against “Hunger and Bad governance”.After a review of the competency of the action in the light of the well…

The 1978 “Ali Must Go” protest against education commercialisation by Obasanjo military regime was like a carnival of songs such as, “Ali Mon Go, Obasanjo Mon Go”. We, as secondary students, followed our university brothers & sisters who came to our school, Reverend Kuti Memorial Grammar School, Isabo, Abeokuta to…

“Protest no dey work protest no dey work…” First, they purportedly plan to address hunger, and starvation of millions downtrodden masses with few bags of rice. How much more clueless and confused can they get? But ‘protest no dey work’? Second, they increased minimum wage to #70,000 passed and sign…

Over the years, Nigeria, the weakened giant of Africa, has been plagued with numerous challenges, including corruption, inequality, and political oppression. For too long, citizens have suffered in silence, hoping for change. However, the power to create change lies in the hands of the people. Protest is a fundamental right…

After the right to life, the next important right for every individual is the right to freedom of speech, by which all men and women are conferred with the inalienable right to express themselves freely. In Genesis Chapter 4, God punished Cain for killing his brother Abel without a lawful…

It’s funny that those who support rotten capitalism, maximum profit driven free market economy, “sell to who you like” market forces are crying now that the behemoth NNPC is not selling oil to Dangote but to foreign biz interests . That’s interesting. Lesson: Never support any economic policy you don’t…

Kenya said they needed more money and wanted to increase taxes. The Kenyan government proposed raising US$2.7 billion by increasing taxes on essential goods and services, from cooking oil to bread. The bill also targeted digital revenue, where the bulk of young people generate their income. The people of Kenya…

The hunger in the country is real. In a couple of weeks, oppressed citizens are expected to take to the streets to protest the economic downturn. Meanwhile, security agencies have been issuing threatening statements to instill fear in the minds of the people. Only inexperienced leaders would consider following the…