Category: Opinion

I’m still curious about the purpose of Nigerian institutions when it comes to IT education. In my opinion, anyone pursuing a career in IT should either study outside Nigeria or attend a dedicated IT school (preferably private) within the country. Why would someone present me with a BSc in Computer…

I am triggered. For the whole of August, I have been constantly triggered by the thought of losing my freedom and sleeping in a detention cell for doing something perfectly legal. Anytime I think about the fact that Adaramoye Michael (Lenin), Mosiu Sodiq, and about 2,000 other protesters have lost…

Over the years, there has been a series of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other Africans living in South Africa. The reason given by these xenophobic South Africans is that the African immigrants are taking up their jobs that are met for them. However, other reasons given by these xenophobes…

Globally subsidies, whether for food, transportation, energy or housing, are part of good governance. So, the issue is not subsidies but who benefit from them.In Nigeria, subsidies are primarily of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. I will highlight a few, how they are being manipulated and…

President Bola Tinubu is a wicked leader who shows no sympathy for the suffering of ordinary citizens. Despite the widespread hunger and violence, he ignores their pleas and exacerbates their plight by using security forces to further oppress and harm people. Tinubu’s speech revealed the kind of person he is.…

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…