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There is something profoundly unsettling about the selective elasticity of the Tinubu presidency’s capacity for outrage. Its vocal cords appear to be in fine fettle when Catholic clerics call attention to the misery that government policies have visited on Nigerians. Those same vocal cords mysteriously retreat into quiescence when a prominent Muslim cleric transforms the […]
Continue Reading“Women have finished me,” my friend groaned. “Everything costs money. If you take a woman to dinner, you pay. If you buy her gifts, you pay. If you marry her, you pay school fees. If she has a birthday, you pay. If she is angry, you buy peace offerings. If she is happy, you celebrate […]
Continue ReadingThe high- level meetings and debates of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) open today at the UN Headquarters in New York, United States, with about 300 heads of states and governments, Vice Presidents, Ministers, and at least a Crown Prince in attendance. This is the 81st UNGA, the UN having been established in June 1945. […]
Continue ReadingGame theorists warn that when two hawks meet, the expected payoff for each becomes negative: C > V > 0. Yet, it is the man who is afraid to join a fight who says: “I was not born into this household.” The ọdán tree at the doorstep never fights the homeboy’s battles. And when a […]
Continue Reading“Now that the game is on, and the race has started, what do you think we should expect?” “What game is that? Which race? The Premier League? The Champions League?” “I mean the 2027 General elections in Nigeria. INEC just released the final list of candidates for the Presidential and National Assembly elections scheduled for […]
Continue ReadingIs Nasir El-Rufai’s problem because he is a Muslim? Even he would say it is not so. There was this statement from the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) issued in the middle of last week. The NSCIA said it had initially regarded the El Rufai matter as a “standard judicial process” but now […]
Continue ReadingBefore the first ballot is cast in Nigeria’s presidential elections, some things are already in plain sight — but voters and commentators often miss them because of the emotions of the moment. In my previous article, ‘The Winning Formula for Presidential Elections’, I pointed out that Nigeria is built on a tripod — the Hausa/Fulani, […]
Continue ReadingThe Toyin Falola Interview’s discussion on witchcraft in Africa has now taken place, and it has left us with a more difficult question than the one with which we began. The pre-interview piece prior to the panel discussion addressed the intellectual question: how should one comprehend witchcraft in relation to African philosophy without simplifying it […]
Continue ReadingChief S. L. Akintola, post-independence Premier of the Western Region, knew that when money entered politics, trust could develop wings. There is a story of how he once sent two trusted associates to some people in the Ondo area. The message they carried was accompanied by money. The emissaries went and returned with assurances that […]
Continue ReadingThe ramifications of the recent public engagement between Tony Elumelu and a graduate trainee of the United Bank of Africa, UBA, go beyond a controversial public encounter to the sociocultural disparities inherent in the amalgamation of Nigeria. Many years ago, Segun Adeniyi of the Thisday fame, dropped by my office looking quite distraught. He did […]
Continue ReadingIn my forthcoming book, ‘Anatomy of Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election’, due for publication in the last week of October 2026, I make a number of bold assertions after scrutinising voting patterns in our presidential elections in the Fourth Republic. Today, as I watch leading opposition parties dilly-dally over how to uproot the APC from Aso […]
Continue ReadingPerhaps accepting that, at 80, the 2027 general election may be his last bid for Aso Rock, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is throwing everything—including the kitchen sink—at the incumbent President Bola Tinubu. The expression is familiar in football: a team, desperate for an equaliser or winning goal, commits every available player to the attack. […]
Continue ReadingIt is sad to see the excitement of Nigerians over football leagues in Europe (The English Premier League, La Liga in Spain, Italy’s Serie A, Germany’s Bundesliga, the Turkish Super League) at a time the House of Football in this country appears to be collapsing, immersed in chaos, more like a shadow of itself. Football […]
Continue Reading“Let justice be done, though the heavens fall” – Lord Mansfield, 1705-1793 “Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; in the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side” – James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891 Until now, there was no reason to raise the question about substantial justice untainted with […]
Continue ReadingThere is an old Nigerian joke about Noah and the Ark; author unknown. God warned Noah that a flood was coming and gave him six months to build an ark. But this Noah was a Nigerian. Before he could cut the first plank, Nigeria happened to him. How did it start? “And the Lord spoke […]
Continue ReadingA disturbing pattern of unending, self-destructive administrative chaos in appointments to consequential public office positions is defining the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu government, which signposts Tinubu’s lack of control of his government and the reality of a shadowy, disorganized, feuding and mercenary cabal of conscienceless influence peddlers in the Presidential Villa. Muhammadu Buhari pioneered this sort […]
Continue ReadingIf wishes were horses, 1975 would have been the end of King Sunny Ade’s music career. It was the year a Lagos High Court slammed KSA with a nine-month ban, forbidding him from recording music. The ban followed a dispute between KSA and the owner of two leading record labels, Take Your Choice and African […]
Continue ReadingWhen We Remembered Our Names We had been bending so long that our children thought that the human body was meant to have a curved back. We had whispered so long that silence became our inheritance, passed from grandmother to mother, from father to frightened son. They took our ancestral names and gave us numbers. […]
Continue ReadingGhosts. Fake, Fraudulent, Dubious Things are not new in Nigeria. The crisis of transparency in Nigeria’s public sector payroll system began, for example, as far back as the 70s, and became even more problematic in the 80s, with the expansion of the public service, and the reliance on cash and paper records for payment of […]
Continue Reading“Come, Lasisi. Come and see this.” I turned towards the voice. It was a female corps member beckoning to me in the newsroom. I looked at the young lady and, gesturing with my right palm, asked if she was referring to me. She said yes. I opened my mouth, and while I contemplated whether to […]
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