Author: Deji Okegbile

The Bible says, “the thief comes only to steal, to kill and destroy,” just as the purpose of fake news reporting is to divide, to deform and kill. Fake news is bias, inflammatory, and false, manipulative of public and personal opinion via misinformation and ‘stories that don’t deliver on their headlines.’ Just as the incumbent in the White House is the choice of the American people, the incumbent in the Aso Rock is the choice of the Nigerian people. The statement claimed by a global business newspaper, Financial Times, in a recent publication with an insanely hyperbolic  and inflammatory...

When gallantry and devotion to duty displayed by officers like late Colonel Adetunji Gabriel Ajayi, an Ijesha-born infantry officer failed to reflect great credit upon them and exemplify the high traditions of the Nigerian military service, it suggests a failed nation. Colonel Ajayi, a notable old student of Atakumosa High School, Osu, Osun Sate, under the tutelage of the late Chief Adebayo Adefarati ‘fell into a state constructed trap and evil plan,’ was ‘arrested with maximum force, charged with maximum offence and locked up in what one could term maximum security prison,’ for the crime he did not commit....