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Articles by Segun Ogunlade
Yemi Osinbajo Vs Ahmed Tinubu: A Tussle Of The Godfather And His Godson
The 2023 election is beginning to gain momentum as more politicians begin to join the presidential race across the two leading political parties in Nigeria. From March 1 2022 till date, Yemi Osinbajo, Nyesom Wike, Yahaya Bello, Rotimi Amaechi, Peter Obi, Rabiu Kwankwaso, Aminu Tambuwal and Ibikunle Amosun have all indicated interest to occupy the highest political office in the land. Before then, Bukola Saraki, Dave Umahi, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Orji Uzor Kalu, and Dele Momodu also declared interest.
Beyond collection of PVC
SIR: True to those advocating for its collection, it is good to have the Permanent Voters Card (PVC),. But what happens after the collection? Just as we have seen many people get the driver’s license even when they cannot tell the gear apart from the clutch, many people now collect the PVC for reasons that are not election-related. They get the PVC so as to use it as a valid means of identification.
NYSC: Things to do before the service year runs out
THE one-year mandatory service for Nigerian university graduates means different thing to different people. For some, it presents the opportunity to create a career path. For others, it presents an opportunity to learn new skills and meet new people. Yet, for some, it is just an opportunity to cool off after three or more years of rigorous academic activities. As a matter of fact, it is the first time some people get to leave their own without their parents watching over them.
Nysc: Five Things You Should Do Before The Service Year Runs Out
The one-year mandatory service for Nigerian university graduates mean different things to different people. For some, it presents the opportunity to create a career path. For others, it presents an opportunity to learn new skills and meet new people. Yet, for some, it is just an opportunity to cool off after three or more years of rigorous academic activities. As a matter of fact, it is the first time some people stay on their own without their parents watching over them.
Lost in the world: A Struggle for identity
FOR someone like me, high school is full of unforgettable bitter and sweet experiences. One of them was how many of the teachers made speaking Yoruba during official school hours looked like a sin. Anyone caught speaking was punished as if he had committed a sacrilegious act. The sweet thing about the experience was that there were no girls to laugh at us because we were all young boys. They called the Yoruba language vernacular. We were punished for speaking Yoruba.
Lost in the world: Africa in struggle for identity
By Segun Ogunlade For someone like me, high school is full of unforgettable bitter and sweet experiences. One of them was how many of the teachers made speaking Yoruba during official school hours looked like a sin. Anyone caught speaking was punished as if he had committed a sacrilegious act. They called the Yoruba language vernacular. We were punished for speaking Yoruba.
Feminism: What African women should know
By Segun Ogunlade Not too long ago, I was chatting with a friend that had gone home for the end of the session break. Midway through our chatting, she mentioned that she was in the kitchen. I thought she was the one doing the cooking for her family that night. But I was wrong. She said she was only in the kitchen because of her mother. Besides, she resented the compunction that always greeted her father’s scolding each time she is in the living room and her mother is busy in the kitchen.
Nigeria: A paradise lost but not regained | By Momoh, Emmanuel Omeiza
For any individual who took literature in high school, John Milton’s twin Sonnet titled Paradise Lost and Paradise is what anyone wouldn’t want to read in a hurry, in the twinkling of an eye or within the snap of a finger. Though written at different points in time, both poems capture the travails of man and his redemption.
JAMB Examination Is Not As Easy As We Think -By Shereefdeen Sawe
I’m neither inflicting fear on you nor demoralising anyone about JAMB examination. My motive is to bring out some reasons behind the regular failure of many students in the exam and suggest solutions to the problem. Yes, I believe if you know how to catch fish, there is no need to wait so long at the coast. Passing exam like JAMB —to many people—might look easy if you are favourable, or perhaps if you know your way.
‘Turn-by-turn Presidency’: Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba Don’t Own Nigeria -By Fredrick Nwabufo
Nigeria is the collective heritage of about 200 million people of diverse ethnic backgrounds and tongues. There are over 250 ethnic nationalities spread across the country. Nigeria does not belong only to the Igbo, the Hausa and the Yoruba. Unfortunately, these three so-called ‘’major ethnic groups’’ have defined the political and economic actualities of the country since independence. Even among the ‘’big three’’, there are splinter groups of distinct cosmology.
Zoning vs. Competence: Examining Mamman Daura’s Statement
Listen to article Mallam Mamman Daura, one of President Buhari’s nephews has come under attack from various socio-political groups for saying that the country should jettison zoning of candidate and embrace competency of the candidate going forward.
"Calm down": Oshiomole, Obaseki, and Ize-Iyamu -By Yusuf Mutiu Olaitan - Opinion Nigeria
About Four years ago, Comrade Adam Oshiomole was in every nooks and cranny of Edo state, painting Godwin Obaseki with every panegyric you could find in the Queen’s language while on the other hand lashing Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu with every denigrating words you could find in the lexicon.
Mr. President, Calm Down The Killings -By Muhammed Saheed
It’s gradually getting out of control. The country is no longer at ease as blood keeps gushing out of every nook and cranny of the country. If not Boko Haram today, it’ll be herdsmen clash tomorrow. Kidnappers are orchestrating their operation carry for ransom. And genocide like killings is becoming increasingly unbecoming and intractable in some parts of the country. It drags tears out of one’s eyes. Should we continue like this?
Reopening of School and the continuous decline in our Education System -By Kareem Itunu Azeez
As recently announced by the ministry of education. Now that those at the helm of affairs, as it pertains to education, have lofted the lid, so as to enable our final year students, (SSCE) to be precise enroll and write their exams, there is the urgent need to analyse the odds if it favors the students, as well as the country as a whole.
Gombe High School Old Students Donate Palliatives to Alma Mater -By Adamu Usman Garko
Educational Issues The pandemic has had gory effects on private schools and teachers who breed and raise leaders. In times like this, Alumni associations ought to come in handy and offer whatever support they can but averse is the case. However, the Gombe High School Old Students’ Association didn’t go with the many. Instead, they distributed items like rice, corn flour, cooking oil among other relief materials to the school.
An Overview of Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria
Listen to article Despite the increasing advocacy and protection of human rights all over the world, Gender-Based Violence, GBV, is one phenomenon that has refused to go away in Nigeria. Women are yet to be seen as having the same dignity as men in many countries of the world, including Nigeria. Although the 2018 Demography and Health Survey says there has been a miniscule of improvement in how women are now treated in Nigeria, many of them are still victims of GBV.
Thoughts on Nigeria’s educational system
By Segun Ogunlade True education is supposed to help us experience our environment, question it deeply to find the different options that exist in it, and then choose the ones to embrace as a matter of urgency. But we don’t do any of these. To be educated in an ideal world means to upgrade one’s capability to solve complex problems. You cannot solve complex problems without first questioning your environment.
Watch Political Thugs In Edo, Please! -By Isaac Asabor
There is no denying the fact that prior to the uncultured and unhistorical display of crass act of thuggery by political party supporters at the palace of the Oba of Benin on Saturday last week that there have been allegations and counter-allegations that bordered on the use of thugs and cultists in the upcoming gubernatorial election in Edo State.
Inadvisability Of Turning Edo Youth To Political Tool -By Isaac Asabor
It would be recalled with nostalgia in this context how, ahead of the 2015 general elections in Edo State, thousands of youths in the State, precisely on August 14, 2014, held a procession around major roads in Benin, saying politicians should use their children as thugs, and warned that they would resist attempts by politicians in the State to engage youths as thugs.
The 9th NASS, Passive Constitution and Masses Poverty -By Jerome-Mario Utomi
It is globally recognized that every citizen of a modern nation is a subject of the state, and once a state is formed, the citizens formulate ethical principles or virtues to be pursued, vices to be avoided and values to be cherished-for the good conduct of the citizens. These values are in most cases put in, or in some cases left in an uncodified form and transmitted from one generation to the next via a well-formulated/structured process called constitution.
Jigawa Youths And Their Future -By Umar Farouk
The epicenter of youths in societal development is predicated on the fact that youths account for half of the world’s population. And as people with enormous leadership and innovative potentials, accessibility to the appropriate education and livelihood opportunities enables society to harness the assets of young people to foster social and economic development. Inclusion and the availability of a continuum of services and opportunities fast track the transition of youths into successful adults.
Do Looters In NDDC Want Their Names In The ‘Hall Of Faint’ Or Hall Of Fame? -By Isaac Asabor
Without sounding sanctimonious, our life as leaders in various spheres of life is about the conscious and unconscious choices we make. The choices that we make by each passing day as leaders determines how high or low we are rated by our respective followers, admirers and antagonists.
Boko Haram: Now That We Know The Terrorists -By Gabriel Agibi
The metamorphosis and enlargement of Boko Haram terrorism into various interests is by no means surprising. The infusion of political, commercial and economic interests, aside its initial facade of religion has made Boko Haram terrorism a bigtime monster in Nigeria. And each of the piebald interests is driven by a different motive and ideology. The COAS and helmsman of the counter-insurgency operations, Lt. Gen.
2023 General Election and the Fate of Nigerian Muslims -By Shiekh Daood Imran Molaasan
Once bitten twice shy, the longer throats of Nigeria Muslims had chewed more than it can swallow, making it risky to hold on a Balance diet ! Permit my parables. As an aptitude test to the coming 2023 general election and the Zoning of Presidential race to Yoruba land requires an enquiry into the Slumbering and absentminded Muslims of Yorubaland and Nigeria at large.
An Overview of the problems besetting Public Primary Schools in Nigeria -By Segun Ogunlade
The fact that many public primary schools are no longer what they used to be is pathetic. Many things have changed about the public primary schools between late 90s up to early 2000s. Unlike before, private schools, both standard and sub-standard, are proliferating and this has worsened the way education in a public primary school is now conceived.
Lost in the World: A Struggle for Identity -By Segun Ogunlade
For someone like me, high school is full of unforgettable bitter and sweet experiences. One of them was how many of the teachers made speaking Yoruba during official school hours looked like a sin. Anyone caught speaking was punished as if he had committed a sacrilegious act. The sweet thing about the experience was that there were no girls to laugh at us because we were all young boys. They called the Yoruba language vernacular. We were punished for speaking Yoruba.
Thoughts on Nigeria’s Educational System -By Segun Ogunlade
Many things have been said about many Nigerian students knowing the theoretical solutions to problem but never the practical solution. Yet, the latter supersedes the former in the order of importance. You could know all the theories and laws in the whole wide world but if you cannot demonstrate what you know by using it to solve real-life problems, your knowledge is as good as useless.
On The Release And Re-integration Of 601 Ex-boko Haram Members Into The Society
Listen to article On Saturday 25th July, 2020, the Nigerian Army said 601 ex-Boko Haram members would be re-integrated into the society. According to the Nigerian Army, the 601 have undergone six months of de-radicalisation, rehabilitation, and reintegration.
Of The North And The Security Insurgence -By Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Akanbi
While the whole world continue to battle with the novel Coronavirus, some Northern states are facing another endemic. In this part of the country, covid-19 is real but incessant killings is more of concern to them at this critical period. Many lives had been lost to insecurity. Northern Nigeria is in deep grief. Things are not going smooth in that part of the country. As other Nigerians wake, sleep and live in peace, the case of Northern Nigerian is in contrary.
Covid-19 and Nigerian youth: A double setback -By Abdullahi Muhammed
Nigeria is not insulated from the impact of the dreaded corona virus, which affected many aspects of human existence creating misfortunes and uncertainties regarding the future of global economy. Although the impact of covid-19 is squarely felt by almost all the corners of the globe, but the third world countries are more badly affected than the developed nations. Almost every sector is severely affected and put so many workers into trauma, hence, left with uncertainty.
Sleep Not, Tolulope Arotile -By Albert Afeso Akanbi
Yesterday the 23rd of July, the remains of one of Nigeria’s young shinning stars, the 23-year-old Flying Officer of the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, Tolulope Arotile, who died under circumstances that many refuse to accept as normal, on the 14th of July 2020, was laid to rest with full military honour worthy of a heroine that she was. She was Nigeria’s first female combat pilot, and flew airborne to destroy many terrorists in Nigeria’s war on terror.
Unemployment; FG and Ayade’s Job Creation Model -By Jerome-Mario Utomi
There will be no end to the embarrassing unemployment and underemployment challenges in the country until all the ill-conceived approaches/solutions to unemployment in the country are addressed. The reason for this assertion is not far fetched. The first has to do with the fact that the nation has had its head stuck in the unemployment mud because successive administrations failed to think about the big issues of goals, strategy and capabilities.
Testing of 5 Million Farmers for Covid-19: Another Needless Initiative from the Federal Government
Listen to article Just when we thought we have had enough of any Federal Government’s perceived plan to help the citizens, the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr Sabo Nanono said there was a plan to test 5 million farmers in Nigeria for Covid-19.
Analysis: The Resignation of 365 Soldiers from the NAF -By Segun Ogunlade
The news that 365 soldiers resigned from the Nigeria Army this week is one of the bad news coming out from the camp of the Nigerian Army. About three or four weeks ago, it was reported that Boko Haram insurgents killed some soldiers in a reprisal attack at a village in Borno state.
The Impact of Taxation on Nigeria's Growth and Development -By Abraham John Onoja - Opinion Nigeria
In a developing country such as Nigeria, one of the major function of the government is the provision of infrastructural services to the citizens. This infastructural services include electricity, schools, hospitals, pipe-borne water, good roads and as well as ensure a rise in per-capital income, poverty alleviation to mention a few but in order for these services to be adequately provided, government should posses enough revenue to finance them.
The Peaceful Jigawa And The Rise Of Insecurity -By Aminu Ibrahim Ringim
Democracy & Governance We are only echoing our voice to call for the reinstatement of security structure, including welfare, buying of new vehicles and sophisticated weapons as well as new gadgets and drones considering the information age, for easy identification and locating of criminal activities and movement, to nip insecurity in the bud. Until recent months Jigawa remain the most peaceful State in Nigeria when compared to other states.
Why Corruption Still Thrive In Nigeria -By Segun Ogunlade
That corruption is a cankerworm that has eaten deep into Nigeria’s fabric is a well-known fact. The word ‘corruption is now almost synonymous with the word ‘Nigeria’. Despite the country’s purported fight against this menace, it has continued to wax stronger and stronger. As someone once joked, as the country continues to fight corruption, corruption is also fighting back. Inasmuch as that was said on a lighter note, it seems true. It seems Nigerians are fantastically corrupt after all.
Implications of Lt. General Buratai’s “Terrorism will end when Nigerians are ready” Statement -By Segun Ogunlade
On Monday 20th July, 2020, Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai made the following statement as regards insecurity in the country: “If we want it to end today, I can ensure you it will end today if everybody joins hands together because these bandits are not from outside Nigeria, they are not from foreign lands. “So it’s not just a military, security agency’s task to end the insecurity in this country.
No gender discrimination in career choice making -By Idris Abdulganiy Yinka
Introduction It’s not written or recorded in the world history that some careers, occupations and professions are purposely designed for a particular person – irrespective of the gender inasmuch as the person is mentally qualified and possesses the ability to handle a particular job and withhold all the necessary requirements needed in that area or field he/she can apply for any course of choice.
The Magugate Scandal, The EFCC And The Case Of A Failed Institution -By Gozie Irogboli
When OBJ government established the EFCC in 2003 in response to pressure from the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering for Nigeria to join in the global fight against money laundering, many thought that the prophylactic antidote to endemic corruption that is prevalent in the land had been found but alas, it was not to be for the same OBJ government laid the weak, shaky and wobbly foundation of the anti-graft agency that he used to his whims and caprices.
Thoughts on Jungle Justice in Nigeria -By Segun Ogunlade
On the evening of June 9, 2020, I was at Bodija market. On my way back, I noticed a mammoth of crowd that was not there before on one side of the road. Usually, I am not the type to bother about what was happening. But for a split second, I decided to go near the crowd and see what they were looking at. As I moved closer, I saw a man on the ground, badly beaten and wounded. Blood was gushing out from one side of his face and he laid there helpless. There was no police in sight.
NDDC and the Fight against Corruption Charade in Nigeria
Listen to article The fight that started between Senator Godswill Akpabio and Mrs Joy Nunieh in relation to the Niger Delta Development Commission has now led to a series of revelation about that Commission. At the height of that fight was how Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State botched the arrest of Mrs Joy Nunieh last week in Port Harcourt. But before the news of her botched arrest, Mrs Nunieh said Senator Akpabio sexually harassed her and she had to slap him to put him in order.
Implications of Lt. General Buratai’s “Terrorism will end when Nigerians are ready” Statement
Listen to article On Monday 20th July, 2020, Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai made the following statement as regards insecurity in the country: “If we want it to end today, I can ensure you it will end today if everybody joins hands together because these bandits are not from outside Nigeria, they are not from foreign lands. “So it’s not just a military, security agency’s task to end the insecurity in this country.
Analysis: The Resignation of 365 Soldiers from the NAF
Listen to article The news that 365 soldiers resigned from the Nigeria Army this week is one of the bad news coming out from the camp of the Nigerian Army. About three or four weeks ago, it was reported that Boko Haram insurgents killed some soldiers in a reprisal attack at a village in Borno state.
Magu, EFCC and President Buhari's lopsided war against corruption | By Momoh, Emmanuel Omeiza
If corruption were to be an academic field of study worthy of been awarded a nobel laureate, then the whole world need not travel far but come to the entity referred to as “Africa’s Giant” in their quest to understand the intrinsic nature and probably earn the highest degree of a doctorate.
The Power of Weak Ties in Social Relation
Listen to article Weak theory is a proposition that acquaintances are likely to be more influential and important than close friends in social networks. This proposition was first made by Nick Granovetter in 1973 in an article titled “The Strength of Weak Ties” which was about the spread of information through social networks. At the time, he was a PhD student at Harvard.
Ibrahim Magu’s Arrest and other Established Patterns in the EFCC
By Segun Ogunlade Listen to article Mr Ibrahim Magu is another embattled Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) boss. His arrest by the Department of State Security (DSS) first made headline on Monday, 6th July, 2019. Since his arrest, many allegations have been levelled against him and more could probably be added in the coming days.
Success: An Example Of Jesus
Listen to article In all of history, Jesus is one of one the most popular icon. Many things have been written and said about him. Over a billion people in the world believe him as the founder of Christianity. Different things are believed about him. For Christians, he is the Son of God. Although he was a divine being, he was described in the gospels as crying, getting tired and compassionate. If he did live as a human, then his life on earth is worth talking about.
Thoughts on Nigeria’s Educational System
Listen to article Many things have been said about many Nigerian students knowing the theoretical solutions to problem but never the practical solution. Yet, the latter supersedes the former in the order of importance. You could know all the theories and laws in the whole wide world but if you cannot demonstrate what you know by using it to solve real-life problems, your knowledge is as good as useless.
Four Stages of Being a Baby Mama
Listen to article In a simple language, a baby mama is a woman that has a child with a man she is not married to. To put it in another way, it means a woman that has a child whose father she is not married to. The number of baby mamas in our society is increasing that sometimes it becomes a matter of public discourse. Whichever way we see it, ‘baby mamaism’ is not the worst thing that could happen to a woman.
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