For 13 consecutive days, from the 7th of October 2020 down to 20th, we were all over the streets of Nigeria, alongside hundreds of thousands of other young people, demanding a permanent end to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). SARS is a police unit tasked with the prevention and combat
Read MoreBy Seyi Oyetunbi A country rich in natural resources, blessed with innovative youths, technocrats, and world-class professionals is sadly positioned to be the world poverty capital. The most populous African country on
Abiodun Sanusi Mr. Dele Farotimi, a lawyer, controversial writer, activist, and sociopolitical critic has been reported to have just escaped an assassination attempt by state actors in Lagos state. The report came
The crises of insecurity have opened a damning page in the life of Nigeria. From Borno to Badagry, citizens are sleeping with one eye open. The military and police are operating exclusively
After the presidential election in Uganda, it dawned on me that there are two people in the country who don’t fear President Yoweri Museveni: one is his tailor, and the other is
Most of us agree that the unity of Nigeria is held by a tenuous thread, and that by the hands of the current administration old scars have been lacerated to bleed anger
Some days ago President Muhammadu Buhari relieved the national security Service Chiefs of their appointments. Reports online had it that they had resigned and that the Commander-in-Chief of the federal Armed Forces
By Sanyaolu Juwon and Manthan Pathak Since 8 October 2020, ordinary Nigerians have been taking to the streets, peacefully demanding an end to police brutality, extrajudicial executions and extortion by the Special
If you were on a holiday to Nigeria from Mars last week, you would almost certainly cut short your stay to avoid what looked like a coming Armageddon. Rotimi Akeredolu, the governor
After committing several crimes against humanity through LekkiMassacre, Oyigbo Massacre, Shiites killings, and the recent Orlu murders; General Buratai and his cohorts serving President Buhari and the APC and their cruel wars
I have just read the text of a speech delivered by the Executive Governor of Oyo State, Mr. Seyi Makinde, threatening the Yorùbá sons and daughters in Ibarapa area of the Pacesetter
Let me start by asking students of history what year Ojukwu died. 2011 right? 44 years from the beginning of the war. Good. Yakubu Gowon is still alive. But over 3 million
Just as the American ruling class always use racism and racist tropes to divide White and Black Americans, and planted racism in the consciousness of Blacks to maintain their capitalist status-quo, the
President Joseph Biden’s inaugural speech says it all. The United States of America has overcome the attempted coup of January 6, 2021 incited by President Donald Trump. The country is set to
Ever since he happened presidentially on the national stage five odd years ago President Muhammadu Buhari and his handlers and aides had not ceased bemoaning the past, blaming the national woes on
Now It Must Stand With Those Struggling Against Tyranny! A mob of violent thugs, incited by an authoritarian president, storm a democratic legislature and disrupt controversial constitutional proceedings. The invaders damage property,
Yoweri Museveni has been president longer than most Ugandans have been alive, but the ageing leader shows no sign of retiring as he seeks yet again to extend his rule. Shortly after
The whole past will always remain the procession of the present. As a result, we must continuously study history because in it we make more history. A generation which ignores history has
Sowore is a human rights activist who has used about 30 years of his 49 years to fight against oppression, corruption, nepotism, impunity, and bad leadership in a Nigeria that is getting
Comrade Omoyele Sowore spent the New Year holiday weekend in the Buhari gulag in Abuja for no justifiable reason. At wee hours of the night of December 31st last year during a
Hate him or love him. Hate his methodology or like his methodology but one thing you can never take away from him is that: in him the man never DIES. If you