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Opinion: Charles Okah and the absence of justice in Nigeria

by Sabella Abide Keeping the accused, as is the case with Charles Oyintombra Okah, locked up for years and under inhumane condition is not only indecent and cruel, it is against what justice, humanity...

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Tunde Bakare: Nigeria is a nation under bondage

by Tunde Bakare Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy”. Therefore, we must not put the cart before the horse by placing emphasis on 2015. If we do not do the needful in 2014, there...

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Tunde ‘Leye: The anti-Gay Law is popular, yet wrong

by Tunde Leye I do not agree with being gay. I have been approached by men for romantic dalliances thrice in my life and I refused each offer in disgust and with a stern warning. However, I did not...

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Akin Osuntokun: The two faces of January in Nigeria’s history

by Akin Osuntokun If January 1st was the day Nigeria was born, January 15th, was the date it was sentenced to death. January was so named in honour of the Roman god Janus. The distinctive symbolism of...

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Opinion: What is happening to this giant of Africa?

by Oluwaseun Babajide In my opinion, I strongly believe that things will someday get better. I was having lunch at a fast food restaurant with a friend of mine who just arrived from Nigeria a week ago...

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Dele Momodu: Who is deceiving Mr President?

by Dele Momodu It is really sad that Alhaji Babamanga Tukur became the fall guy of this crisis because he presided over a difficult party at a bad moment. He paid dearly for trying to stay loyal to a...

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Opinion: But wait, what if Jonathan doesn’t run in 2015?

by Fola Ojo This writer spoke with a couple of PDP bigwigs in both Rivers and Akwa Ibom states who said that their people believe it would be an abomination for the President not to run. They also...

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Opinion: Nigeria’s anti-gay law is a crime against reason

by Ebenezer Obadare There are many reasons why every right-thinking person should oppose this law. Months after it was passed in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, a bill that...

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Soyombo Ayomikun: GenVoices – Our voices will forever ring through history...

by Soyombo Ayomikun I see graduates from our ivory towers emerging fully baked   Not as devilish souls longing to consume the ‘national cake’   Acts we’ve seen in some leaders who cut big chunks with...

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Opinion: Lessons to learn from life’s defining moments

by Femi Oyewole-Damilola      …wakeup calls in life do toughen us up and stretches our tolerance and long-suffering capacity. The scriptures says that ‘’the trying of your faith worketh patience” If I...

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Opinion: How can we justify this anti-gay law nonsense?

by Jaiye Gaskia So sex between consenting adults of the same sex attracts 14 year jail term; while rape of an adult woman or minor attracts 7 years or less; and looting of the treasury attracts plea...

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Opinion: Open letter to Pres. Jonathan on the anti-gay law

by Ahanonu Kingsley I am not oblivious of the heightened hatred of the majority of Nigerians towards identified gays and I am also not unaware of the criticisms and aspersions against any apparent...

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Simon Kolawole: All the President’s enemies

by Simon Kolawole That is why despite the massing of anti-Jonathan figures in APC’s corner, I think it is too early to count him out. I will certainly not proclaim his political demise yet. To start...

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Opinion: Nigeria – The consequences of evading the truth

by Adeolu Ademoyo Justice Ayọ Salami might have unknowingly touched something important and hidden. To naturally evade the truth may mean, it is in the nature of the way things are constituted. We...

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Opinion: What celebrities should learn form Toke Makinwa’s private wedding

by Kehinde Ajose It was a wise decision to make the wedding a private affair. The media has already had enough of the ‘TokeMaje’     love tale’,   and   their relationship has often been in the front...

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Perry Brimah: Opponents of the anti-gay law are enemies of democracy

by Perry Brimah If Nigerians seriously opposed this anti-gay bill, we should likewise have moved forward firmly and strongly against the initial stages of it passing the senate and House before it got...

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Femi Aribisala: Why women can’t stand Apostle Paul and his manipulative...

by Femi Aribisala Paul continues his diatribe against women in another scripture, using new arguments to buttress his position.  He says: “Let your women keep silent in the churches, for they are not...

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Elnathan John: Once upon a mob action in Abuja

by Elnathan John As you head home, you realize how foolish it all was, your jumping in to shield him. How you could very easily have become a headline: Writer Accidentally Killed In Mob Lynching. You...

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20 things you NEED to know about the new Nigerian mortgage policy (thanks,...

by Feyi Fawehinmi The best way to think of this is to imagine a market where the product being sold is mortgages. All the banks in Nigeria are currently retailers which means they sell the mortgages...

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Femi Fani-Kayode: 12 things Jonathan must do for peace to return to Nigeria

by Femi Fani-Kayode Firstly he has to resign as President forthwith and  undertake to stay out of Nigerian politics for the next ten years and confine himself to fishing in Otuoke. I must commend...

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