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Opinion

November 28, 2020

Where’s Buhari? Is That a Body Double in Aso Rock?

Buhari appears to be dead and replaced by a body double because he is wracked by the ravages of dementia.

President Buhari -2
November 21, 2020

My 2018 predictions about Buhari’s “NextLevel” now materialising

APC’s NextLevel campaign isn’t just deficient in creativity; it’s also a shameless theft of an organisation’s intellectual property.

President Muhammadu Buhari
November 18, 2020

Nigeria: A decade of impunity and inaction

Various commissions and inquiries have been set up to investigate alleged crimes committed by the military since 2009, but none led to any prosecution of perpetrators.

Netsanet Belay, Amnesty International
November 14, 2020

Why Trump-loving Buhari critics are bigoted Christofascists

It’s amazing what kind of self-indulgent cognitive bias causes people to condemn a vice in one person but praise it as a virtue in another.

President Buhari and President Trump
November 7, 2020

Sleepy Joe is in, sleepless Donald is out, and Nigerian-Americans on the rise

Even in defeat, Trump is continuing with his banana-republic-style destruction of America’s centuries-old traditions.

Trump and Biden
November 6, 2020

#EndSARS and Nigeria’s hunger for leadership

A new kind of revolution came alive. Even now, the fire has not died, the flame cannot be quenched.

#EndSARS protest used to illustrate the story
November 2, 2020

Free speech not a threat to Nigeria’s corporate existence

They fantasise about their stranglehold on traditional media and wish they could exert the same level of cowering power over social media.

Lai Mohammed
November 2, 2020

The “terrorists” of IPOB

If the truth be told the real terrorists in this country are in Aso Rock and not on the streets of Igboland or in the ranks of IPOB.

Nnamdi_Kanu, IPOB Leader (Credit: Wikipedia)
October 31, 2020

Nigeria’s season of anomie and Okonjo-Iweala’s WTO DGship bid

This anomie, this disruption of the habitual order of society, won’t abate as long as the conditions that drive them persist

Okonjo Iweala and Donald Trump
October 30, 2020

Time to call out Lai Mohammed’s social media paranoia

First of all, the Nigerian government itself is Nigeria’s largest fake news factory.

Lai Mohammed