Fisayo Soyombo
Sahara Reporters
Lagos, LA, Nigeria
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The Grand Coronavirus Cover-Up In Kwara By 'Fisayo Soyombo
It appears this committee and some powerful forces at UITH are more concerned about painting Kwara as COVID-negative than enabling an environment for isolation and testing, so that contact tracing can commence in earnest if a positive case does surface and so that everyone around can take necessary precautions. → Read More
The grand coronavirus cover-up in Kwara
If you weren’t pressing away your phones or ogling the fine boys or girls during Logic classes in school, you would easily have noticed the grand cover-up of the circumstances → Read More
Coronavirus and its corollary problems
Coronavirus was always going to come to Nigeria. If a viral disease originates from China, the world’s most populous country, then Nigeria, the seventh most populous is surely a potential → Read More
Before we grant amnesty to Boko Haram
I’ve been observing with keen interest the National Assembly’s recent efforts to solidify President Muhammadu Buhari’s offer of Nigeria-Delta-like amnesty to ‘repentant’ Boko Haram members. Buhari first made the offer → Read More
Degi Whatchamacallit, David Lyon and the fall of APC in Bayelsa
Quite a lot of political neutrals have been sympathetic to David Lyon, candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the November 2019 governorship election in Bayelsa State. Lyon had → Read More
The trekkers of today will snatch our cars tomorrow
I am not one the biggest fans of the motorcycle as a means of transportation. I wasn’t always an antagonist; it all started in 2010. My friend was on a → Read More
The oppression of victims
Victims! The spot of ‘victims’ in my headline was sealed six months ago by one of the senior officers of Pedro Police Station, Shomolu, Lagos. It was Friday July 19, → Read More
UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (II): Staff shortage, ghost workers, principalities and powers… Many things not right at ‘Yaba Left’
After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one week, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO went undercover for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on ward → Read More
UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION (I): Bed-space corruption, terrible food, well-fed rats… Many things not right at ‘Yaba Left’
After altering his looks and taking psychiatric lessons every day for one week, investigative journalist ‘FISAYO SOYOMBO went under cover for three weeks in November, including 10 straight days on → Read More
Ikeja Electric’s estimated thieving and corrupt staff
In August 2018, one month after I ‘moved’ into a rented apartment, Ikeja Electric sent me a power consumption bill in excess of N22,000. This was daylight robbery; I knew → Read More
I Wanted To ‘Insult’ The President But I Didn’t Want To Go To Jail By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
Buhari set up this committee to devise means of funding the new national minimum wage of N30,000; poor workers’ salaries are about to be raised via a VAT hike that will eventually hit them. → Read More
I wanted to ‘insult’ the president, but I didn’t want to go to jail
There are many things I wanted to write about from last week, but I can’t, otherwise I’ll end up in jail. Since the Department of State Services (DSS) charged Omoyele → Read More
Seun Onigbinde’s dagger through the heart of civic activism
I have a distant acquaintanceship with Seun Onigbinde, meaning, if I wanted to, I could have privately congratulated him on his appointment as Technical Adviser (Budget & Planning) to the → Read More
How Nigeria Can End Xenophobia Without South Africa’s Help By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
It is unquestionable that Mkongi’s utterances were inciteful, and implicitly emboldened South Africans to attack their African brothers. Only problem is that the video is anything but recent; it was first filmed in July 2017! → Read More
How Nigeria can end xenophobia without South Africa’s help
For the first time ever, Nigeria-based Nigerians gave a violent response to the killing and maiming of their countrymen in South Africa. South African enterprises, the most unfortunate being food → Read More
South Africans are killing Nigerians, Buhari is laughing with their president
On Tuesday, the United States announced a hike in the cost of visa application for Nigerians. The US Consulate in Nigeria didn’t mince words in explaining the move: The total → Read More
FBI 80: Igbo is not the colour of fraud
The last 10 days have been very damaging for Nigeria’s already-battered international image. The spark was Obinwanne Okeke, once remembered for his listing by Forbes among the 100 Most Influential → Read More
Congratulations, IBB. But The Real Nigerians Will Always ‘Look Down’ On You By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
Companies became cash-strapped, leading to mass closure of factories, largescale loss of jobs, reduced purchasing power and rapid multiplication of poverty. → Read More
Congratulations, IBB. But the real Nigerians will always ‘look down’ on you
If we didn’t know better, we would have thought the subject of such effusive praise on his 78th birthday is a leader in the mould of the great Nelson Mandela. → Read More
Who will save the police from killer soldiers?
If you believe the Army’s explanations about the killing of three policemen and a civilian in Taraba last week, please lend me your innocence. It probably means you have enough → Read More